Mewgenics rockets to No.1 on Steam, developers recoup budget in 3 hours

Mewgenics, the cat-breeding tactics game from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, released on Steam today and instantly shot up the charts. It's the number one global top seller on Steam, beating out Counter-Strike 2, PUGB, Helldivers 2, and Arc Raiders. "We have made back our development budget after 3 hours.

Thank you all :)" Glaiel wrote on Bluesky today. First announced 14 years ago, back when McMillen was still flying the Team Meat flag, Mewgenics began as a very different game with Pokémon-like combat. That version was cancelled, Team Meat broke up, and the project became the stuff of development hell legend.

McMillen picked the project back up in 2018, teamed with Glaiel, and they committed to a turn-based combat format in 2020. No two runs are the same, and with hundreds of items, abilities, synergies, mutations, and secrets to find, Mewgenics offers a lot to explore.

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