The Binding Of Isaac Creator’s Long-Awaited Mewgenics Has A New Release Window

Do you remember Mewgenics, The wacky cat-breeding roguelike is the brainchild of Super Meat Boy co-creator and The Binding of Isaac mastermind Edmund McMillen and has been in and out of the works for a decade. It appears that there is a new release window after it was announced and put on hold. 

McMillen tweeted a gif of two of the game’s adorable cats engaging in what we’ll call an intimate cat exercise. The tweet links to the game’s Steam page, which lists a 2024 release window.

Mewgenics. The game tasks players with collecting and breeding hundreds of cats to train and send into battle. Or, as the Steam description puts it, Mewgenics is a “turn-based legacy roguelike draft sim about cats!” The game apparently boasts “100s of hours” of gameplay, multiple classes with over 50 unique abilities, over 200 enemies, and other features. 

Mewgenics was first announced in 2012, with McMillen at the time describing it as “By far the strangest project I’ve ever worked on.” McMillen has worked on it alongside Tyler Glaiel; the pair previously partnered for The End is Nigh, among other titles. The original plan was to release the game in 2014, but it was delayed. The game was delayed and was restarted in 2016. McMillen started work on The Legend of Bum-Bo in 2016, which was launched in 2019. At the time, McMillen was unsure of Mewgenics’ future, but in 2018 he announced he was remaking the game to be released in “a few years.” 

The game is slated to launch for PC, though whether or not it’s still coming to iOS is unknown. Is Mewgenics still appealing to you? Leave a comment below! For more on Edmund McMillen, we spoke with him last December where he discussed his life and career, including Mewgenics, which you can read in this interview feature.