Mewgenics

Nintendo LifeScott McCrae

10/10

Mewgenics is not only my favourite game of 2026 and one that's unlikely to be unseated from its throne, but it's also already one of my favourite roguelikes and strategy games of all time. It builds upon other classics that blend the two genres, like Into The Breach and Fights in Tight Spaces, and imbues them with brilliant encounters, enemy design, and systems so deep you may never fully get the hang of them. Mewgenics is an extremely special kind of game that only comes around once in a blue moon, even if it is filled to the brim with cat turds.

Try Hard GuidesErik Hodges

10/10

Mewgenics deserves all its praise and more, delivering a solid monster-rancher premise with strong roguelike gameplay and packaging it all with incredible humor that only the creative minds behind Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac could pull off. You couldn’t swing a cat around in this game without smashing it into something awesome.

Capsule ComputersTravis Bruno

9/10

Mewgenics Developers: Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel Publishers: Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel, Nicalis Platforms: Xbox Series X (Reviewed), PlayStation 5, PC, Switch 2Release Date: Available NowPrice: $39.99 USD – Available Here Overview What do you do when you’ve already created what many saw to be one of the greatest roguelikes of its time? Well, people love cats right? […]

Push SquareSimon Fitzgerald

9/10

In this day and age with the large AAA game budgets, you'd never expect a team of just two developers to come out with a GOTY-contending indie title.

The Games MachineEmanuele Feronato

9/10

Mewgenics | Review | After a long wait, Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel's new roguelite has arrived, and it's already a pop phenomenon.

Final WeaponAlex Patterson

Mewgenics is an incredibly ambitious project for a small development team. Fortunately, it more than delivers. This is a must-buy for roguelite fans.

COGConnectedRhett Waselenchuk

90/100

In the end, Mewgenics stands as a confident, content-rich tactical roguelite that rewards curiosity, patience, and perseverance. Its deep combat, endless variety, distinctive visuals, unforgettable soundtrack, and unapologetic humor combine into a game that feels uniquely itself. It won’t be for everyone, but for those willing to meet it on its own terms, Mewgenics offers an experience that can last dozens—if not hundreds—of hours without losing its sense of surprise or challenge. If you waited over a decade for Mewgenics, your patience has paid off.

Game InformerCharles Harte

8/10

Mewgenics is difficult to assess; it executes some ideas incredibly well, while others are clumsy and grating. I adore its combat, which makes for excellent roguelike gameplay and has been well worth my extensive playtime. Simultaneously, the game's humor and breeding mechanics have really brought my opinion down over time, as both elements have gotten old as my playthrough went on. Even so, the combat and breeding are two distinct parts of the game, and the former takes up so much playtime t...

GamereactorMatti Isotalo

8/10

The literal name of the game - aside from the pun of questionable taste - comes from breeding cats. This comes with cartoony but explicit animations, which can be turned off from the Settings menu. You can try to affect who makes out with whom, but the end-result is always a game of chance. If everything goes well, the kitten inherits their parents' best qualities and can therefore beat tougher opponents. This is one of the more innovative parts of the unusual game that elsewhere can feel a bit samey and traditional, even if the amount of content matches the affordable price tag well.

VGChartzKarl Koebke

7.5/10

A killer soundtrack and interesting game mechanics make Mewgenics worth the price of entry, but it overstays its welcome.Mewgenics is a strategy RPG rogue-lite with fighting cats. As a general fan of the strategy RPG genre, [...]

WayTooManyGamesOliver Shellding

7/10

Edmund McMillen has stolen weeks of my life, and I have let him. From the PC to my ill fated times on 3DS and iOS, and now my almost daily driver of the Switch, I have continued to play The Binding of Isaac for more than a decade, and I’m no closer to being finished than I was the first time I defeated Hush. For all the critique you can levy against the crass nature of the art and the perpetual nerfing that occurs (though Glass Cannon was really well rebalanced), the game has a nearly perfe...

Gideons GamingGaming Gideon

Unscored

Mewgenics is the very highlight of what the rogue-lite genre can be while surpassing the games that got me into the tactics genre in the first place, such as Final Fantasy Tactics, and it does so by nearly every metric. It’s mind blowing to realize that I only paid $30 for it. Less than half the price of a AAA game that wouldn’t last me a fraction of the time.