Mewgenics

9 hours in, I ragequit the game after a *very* bad run and wrote a VERY lengthy rant about how bad this game is and how overrated every Edmund game is, praying to god that he'd stop making games, concluding with the fact I'd NEVER return to this game. 44 hours later, I'm still playing and shooting for 100% completion. God, I hate this game.

Alright, so it has been 100 hours of me being lost in this fine specimen of a game, which is a good time to write a review, not that good compared to the game itself, though. Mewgenics is a tactical turn-based game, but in heart it is a roguelite at its finest. And there is a big big problem with vast majority of roguelite games, in my opinion, because there is just not enough content in them to justify "replayability" game loop at the core of a roguelite, which leads to game becoming stale and uninteresting pretty damn fast. Some exceptions do exist, like Spelunky dilogy, where the game is so well thought out and made, and so skill dependant, that it compensates its limited content. Well, that surely is not the case with Mewgenics, because the game is absolutely HUGE. There is so much stuff all around, classes, items and synergies, mutations and disorders, spells and abilities, zones, bosses and enemies, that I still see new things in acts I already kind of completed. Bear in mind that I actually got through the Radical Rat and Dybbuk, the absolute units and menaces that bully people into writing pretty pathetic negative reviews. Right now I'm sitting at about 75% completion, which is not very true, judging by achievements page, so yeah, the end is actually not nigh. Overall the gameplay is simple enough, you breed your pack of cats to the state of absolute degeneracy, take your inbred mutants and they go punch other cats, rats, dinosaurs, Hitler, and sometimes themselves. Very chaotic, yet weirdly calm and collected, very unpredictable and very, very diverse. Other than that, you can interact with NPCs, who can help you with various item aquisition and cat breeding related stuff, which is a main meta-progression of the game. Edmund McMillen is one of a kind man, once in a lifetime occurence for us, gamer folks, whose bright ideas and unique approach to game design put to shame AAA studios feeding $70 regurgitated slop to players, not that they care even a little bit, though (again, exceptions do exist in that field also, we all know that). If you are fine with his deranged humour, cute and cartoony, yet vile and unsettling on closer inspection visual style, then you are in for a treat with pretty much any of his games. And I am glad that I can experience all that stuff. Also I want to mention music and sound design, which are supreme. Soundtrack by Ridiculon (and probably somebody else that I do not know) is a banger on a banger, every single boss has its own unique song, and miscellaneous sounds are varied enough to actually improve overall diversity of the game even further, since you don't really want to hear same sounds for tens or even hundreds of hours. I am having a blast playing this game, and I sure hope you will also do the same, so buy it, play it and enjoy it. That's all, folks, hope everyone has a nice day!

120 hours, beat the game, yes it's good. There's so much good slapped all over. Gameplay, fun. Music, phenomenal. Addictive, yes. After waiting almost 4 years for this game (while some have been waiting for like what 12+) I can say it was definitely worth the wait, and i'm not even done with everything! Only gripe i have is that when choosing abilities when you level up, you cant see its effective range (some abilities have identical wording but different ranges, or no indication of range). Everything else is perfect, the bosses are cool, the classes are fun, the gameplay loop is addicting, there's just so much juice oozing out of this game it's near perfect.