MEWGENICS

Breed your very own cat army

- Tyler Wilde

Isn't it kind of messed up that we selectively breed cats and dogs into asthmatic oddballs and then sell them to each other because we think they're cute? I love cats, but yeah, and that's basically what inspired Mewgenics, a game about breeding cats and sending them on adventures with turn-based combat (they're outdoor cats).

To pull one of PC Gamer's favourite terms out of the bag, Mewgenics is systems-driven to its core, with so many abilities, traits, items, enemy behaviours, hazards and other effects at play in each cat battle that I was rarely certain about what exactly would happen when I clicked something. That ability will blow that enemy over there and then he'll get harpooned on the next round, and if he's bleeding that shark will attack him, but watch out because you'll also blow that fire onto one of your cats...

Developers Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy,