Games like Mewgenics
If Mewgenics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mars Tactics, Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades and TROOOPS! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its amazing soundtrack, character death is okay and no attacks miss. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Mewgenics is a strategy RPG from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, releasing in 2026 at $29.99. The game tasks players with breeding and customizing cats across generations to build an army suited for turn-based tactical encounters. Rogue-lite progression structures each run while class customization and genetic manipulation let players shape their feline squads over time. Reviewers describe the tone as dark and whimsical, and highlight design choices like permanent character death and attacks that never miss as hooks that keep sessions engaging. Players also note the absence of experience-point grinding as a structural departure from the genre norm. The game carries a Steam Deck Verified designation and holds a 92% positive rating from over 25,600 Steam reviews, with a Metacritic score of 88.
About Mewgenics: Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
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Steam players who put hours into Mewgenics also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Mars Tactics
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mewgenics.
The Red Planet is at war. Lead either Capital’s corporate army or Labor’s worker revolutionaries and wage war across a vast strategic map, then assume direct control in turn-based tactical battles featuring artillery, vehicles, and fully-destructible environments.
Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades is a turn-based tactical RPG where you lead a company of mercenaries in a medieval fantasy world. Try your hand at mercenary work, trading, or exploring, and keep your crew well stocked for brutal combat in a procedurally-generated open-world campaign.
TROOOPS!
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mewgenics.
TROOOPS, UNITE! The Kroooken has torn apart our archipelago once more, scattering awful creatures, capturing our tribes and devouring our treasures! Only together can we bring harmony back to our seas! PREPARE TO ENGAGE!
Darkest Darkness
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
Darkest Darkness is a roguelike deck-building game with extraction elements. Choose your identity and venture into a Lovecraftian town. Craft every card yourself—collect materials, build powerful cards, plan your route, or extract with your gathered materials to gain an edge in your next run.
INFERIUS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
A blend of Dante’s Inferno and Lovecraftian horror. A first-person roguelike deckbuilder using the Major Arcana Tarot Cards to strategize against the horrors lurking in the darkness. Build the perfect deck, challenge each ruler of the 9 levels of hell, die often... and repeat.
Mushroom Musume
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mewgenics.
Ranked #6 for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.
As We Descend
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Ranked #7 for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
The Royal Writ
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mewgenics.
Ranked #8 for Mewgenics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mewgenics.
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Mewgenics
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Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Othercide
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Mewgenics.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Cult of the Lamb
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Wildermyth
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning with Mewgenics.
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Reviewers of Mewgenics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mewgenics.
Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi join forces for the first time to deliver the ULTIMATE adventure game! 15 students are tasked with defending a school from grotesque monsters for 100 days. Can they make it to the end? And will they survive long enough to uncover the truth?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mewgenics at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Mewgenics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mewgenics.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mewgenics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mewgenics.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Mewgenics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Mewgenics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mewgenics.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mewgenics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mewgenics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mewgenics.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mewgenics.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mewgenics.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mewgenics.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Edmund McMillen
Other recommendable Steam games by Edmund McMillen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
The Legend of Bum-Bo
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
The End Is Nigh
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
The Basement Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mewgenics.
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
Fingered
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mewgenics.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics. Shares Indie with Mewgenics.
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!
Gish
WHY THIS
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind Mewgenics. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mewgenics.
Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.
Frequently asked about Mewgenics
- Is Mewgenics verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Mewgenics is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Mewgenics cost?
- Mewgenics is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mewgenics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mewgenics are Mars Tactics, Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades, TROOOPS!.
- Who developed Mewgenics?
- Mewgenics was developed by Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel and published by Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel.
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