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Mewgenics is a strategy game about breeding cats. It's also a game about inflicting untold horrors on those cats until they become super strong. There are also many poop jokes. I'm not sure I can get away with saying I accidentally put 100 hours into it, but the amount surprises me every time I look.

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Binding of Isaac dev rejects writing "safe" things, discusses new "breeding sim"

I can't get Fish Sticks out of my head. Not the food, but the stray cat with a squished face and stubby legs that I wrangled into my shack in Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s new roguelite strategy game, Mewgenics. The shop, the pub, the dentist; no matter where I go, I see his beady peepers deep in my subconscious. It’s the loss.

I sent Fish Sticks to the pits of hell to face the armies of Satan. Even though he had a nasty case of gastritis. Even though he slurped green goo that made his eyeballs bulge from his face. And he would’ve made it home, too, if it weren’t for a particularly pissed-off frog. The amphibian dragged him kicking and screaming into the path of the vacuuming jaws of a floating demon. The bastard gobbled him up. Him and his ability to pluck maggots from his allies' rectums and swallow their souls. As he vanished into the demon's belly, so too did my chances of passing his rectal soul-sucking powers to a new generation of adventuring cats.

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When I think of veterans of the indie game space, Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel immediately come to mind, from success with flash games on Newgrounds, to more in-depth collaborative efforts with games like The End is Nigh, Mewgenics joins the ranks of absurd but addictively unique titles that effortlessly blend disparate ideas into one cohesive package.

Mewgenics is a real-time strategy game with role-playing elements that places players in the role of an unnamed lab assistant working for an eccentric mad scientist. The objective is to acquire cats for a variety of bizarre experiments and misadventures. While the game frames this task as procurement, Mewgenics is ultimately focused on cultivating the strongest possible litter.

In practice, this means taking in stray cats, sending them out to fight enemies and gather food, breeding them, and repeating the cycle. The goal is constant improvement as players refine their rosters and produce increasingly capable offspring... Read more

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