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Shaky cam footage emerges of Edmund McMillen’s turn-based cat-tics MewgenicsNearly 11 years since he said it would be the next official Team Meat game
Nearly 11 years since he said it would be the next official Team Meat game
IfMewgenicswere an actual cat, it would be approaching its twilight years. It’s been nearly 11 years since Edmund Mcmillen, known forSuper Meat BoyandBinding Of Isaac, first announced that the mysterious cat breed ‘em upwould be Team Meat’s next game. The cats wound up waiting outside while they worked on other things, but we now have a much more concrete idea of what the game is.
The developers have actually been posting extensive development updates since January, but McMillen also just recorded an adhoc TikTok video where he points his phone at his screen. Turns out Mewgenics is a turn-based strategy roguelike with wizard cats who can cut their paws while opening windows. Could be worth the wait!
@edmundmcmillenReplying to @Lord Heisenberg III fine herr is some footage#mewgenics#bindingofisaac#thebindingofisaac#cat#indiegames♬ original sound - Edmund McMillen
Mewgenics has shifted form over the years, fromthe unknowable progeny of dancing clown scientiststoreal-time action brawlers. Forget that! It’s a turn-based tactics game now, with cats that hew to traditional classes like rogues, mages and tanks. You’re on some kind of adventure through alleyways and who knows where else, doing battle with abilities that cost mana points. McMillen mentions “you breed cats at home”, but we don’t get much of a look at that.
Back in March 2021he described Mewgenics as “like a bunch of things, but not like anything else. It really feels likeFinal Fantasy Tacticsmeets Pokémon meets some sort of D&D-type adventure game, with anAnimal Crossinghub”.
I had very little idea of how to picture that, but this footage has me sold. It’s more traditionally tactics-ey than I might have thought, but lathered in McMillen’s trademark mash-up of the charming and the grotesque. It seems like another game ripe to come alive through all the little touches, like the way that cat looks around suspiciously when McMillen gives him a little scrap metal hat.
You can find out more onthe game’s Steam page, includingthis overviewof Mewgenics’ protracted history and the most recent post’sbreakdown of elemental effects. I had no idea we already knew so much.
