Mewgenics has started strong on Steam and quickly showed impressive numbers soon after the launch.
Mewgenics is a cat breeding tactical roguelike from the creator of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy. It offers strategy, role-playing, and dark humor. The game focuses on breeding and raising cats, where each cat inherits traits, abilities, and even strange mutations from its parents. Players build a team of cats and send them into grid-based battles filled with enemies, traps, and random events.
As per Techlomedia Gaming’s Mewgenics Steam chart, Mewgenics clocked a peak of around 65,890 concurrent players soon after launch. This puts it very close to The Binding of Isaac Rebirth’s all-time peak of 70,701 players.
Sales numbers are even more interesting. Mewgenics sold over 150,000 copies in its first six hours. According to developer Edmund McMillen, the game sold around 152,000 copies in just five and a half hours. He called the performance “kind of insane.”
On Twitch, interest has been equally strong. Around 94000 viewers were watching Mewgenics streams shortly after launch. Even McMillen joined in to watch, mentioning how quickly popular streamer Northernlion picked up the game.
Critical response has also been very positive. Mewgenics currently sits at an 89 score on Metacritic. On Steam, about 96 percent of user reviews are positive, based on roughly 1,700 reviews so far. IGN gave the game a 9 out of 10 rating, praising its depth, replay value, and unexpected humor.
