10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Mewgenics

The central conceit of Mewgenics is that you don’t get to keep your cats. It’s tempting to treat them like a deck and rely on particular synergies, but when you reach a new goal your menagerie retires and those exact abilities will be gone next run. The game is about letting go and never getting attached.

Food goes down faster than you think. You start with 50 portions and each cat requires a portion per day; strays and kittens quickly multiply your mouths to feed. Pick up food on adventures and grab the 100-coin expansion to your food supply stores as soon as you can.

Mewgenics is obsessively bodily: clean up poop by clicking the sweet curlers to keep cats healthy, and use the middle mouse button (Y on controller) for a far clearer view of battle with red counters for enemies and green for your squad. Eat items you find on the ground—hover to check and cats standing on a tile will automatically gobble them—and prioritize killing neutral birds early, as they often drop useful items and boost the killer’s stats.

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