On Steam, a new tactics game called Mewgenics will be released on February 10, 2026, in which you can train an army of cats. The game is already being praised by critics.
What is Mewgenics? The new tactics and roguelike game from the developer of Binding of Isaac is called Mewgenics and will be released on February 10, 2026, on Steam. You must create your own team of cats and then send them to turn-based battles.
In this game, you can equip your cats with various collars that determine their class, such as Mage or Warrior. Additionally, there are over 1,000 skills distributed among all classes, and more than 900 items to make your cats the strongest strays in the neighborhood.
With the return of your cat army, individual paw fighters can gain experience, scars, or even mutations to breed even stronger generations of cats. According to the developer, the main campaign alone has over 200 hours of content, and thanks to the roguelike aspect, every adventure is supposed to be different.
Critics are Excited About Mewgenics
How has Mewgenics been rated so far? Since the game will only be released on the evening of February 10, there are currently only the opinions of critics.
According to Metacritic.com, the game has received 34 reviews in total, achieving a score of 90. The reviews often praise the enormous depth of gameplay in Mewgenics and sometimes refer to it as a candidate for Game of the Year 2026 (as of February 10, 2026, at 1:00 PM).
Who is the developer? Edmund McMillen is one of the developers behind the roguelike hit Binding of Isaac, which ranks 16th among the best games on Steam (steam250.com). As early as 2012, when he was still supporting the Super Meat Boy team, the name Mewgenics was announced as a new project.
Just a few years later, however, development was halted, and McMillen was only able to secure the rights to the name and game idea in 2018. Since then, he has been developing Mewgenics and said in an interview with the YouTube channel noclip_2: “I really believe this is my best game.”
Additionally, McMillen mentioned in the interview that Binding of Isaac was just a warm-up for Mewgenics. One viewer had been waiting for over 10 years for news about the tactics game and had not thought it would ever be released: For 10 years, the developer behind Binding of Isaac wanted to create a tactics game with cats, and it will finally be released in a few months
