Featured Image Credit: Edmund McMillen / Tyler Glaiel
Topics: Steam, Indie Games, PC
A brand new game that’s just hit Steam is already rated positively by 95% of players, and is set to be one of the best reviewed games of the year.
Earlier this week, games industry veterans Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel released Mewgenics, a turn-based tactics game involving breeding cats to become weapons of war.
As a cat person, I’m not sure whether to be offended or impressed, but from what I played in my preview from last year, I was interested in what the game seemed to be doing, even if the subject matter was a little uncomfortable.
In Mewgenics, you assemble a posse of cats and outfit them with unique class-specific collars and then send them out on missions.
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From here, this feline fellowship runs into various hostile encounters with other cats on the mean streets of Boon County, entering into turn-based battles where you can use your abilities and weapons to their fullest potential.
Following each run, you can mate cats to create new breeds with fresh abilities and traits to take out on another run.
On Steam, Mewgenics has 95% positive reviews, indicating an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating. On Metacritic, it has a score of 89, making it one of the best reviewed titles of the year so far.
It also made back its entire budget over the eight years of development in just three hours post-launch, selling around 150,000 copies on Steam in the first day.
On the other hand, Mewgenics has also received some criticism in the past few days concerning its voice cast, which includes controversial figures like Ethan and Hila Klein, whose views on the Israel-Palestine conflict has drawn attention from critics in the past.
Another one is Matan Even, whom you may remember as the individual who crashed the stage at the The Game Awards 2022 ceremony after Elden Ring won the Game of the Year award, and has also appeared on right-wing conspiracy podcast InfoWars.
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As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, McMillen stated, “I wanted the game to feature a huge array of iconic voices I’ve been hearing echoing across the internet for most of my time making games. As some probably noticed I was [pretty] all over the place when it came to cameos and did my best to include and keep ones that clashed or kinda counterbalanced each other.”
He added: “I understand we live in a time where a meow from someone who has different beliefs as you is scary and frustrating, confusing and controversial. But it felt interesting so I decided to explore it. Also, I should probably point out that I don’t share the same opinions as, well probably any of the people we included, if I only included people who share the same exact opinions as me, I’d be the only one meowing in the game.”