Edmund McMillen, the developer behind Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, has been working with Tyler Glaiel for the past five years to create turn-based strategy roguelite, Mewgenics.

Set to launch today on PC, it's blown reviewers away; it's scored the highest Metacritic score of the year so far, sitting pretty at 90.

Critics have unanimously praised the game's depth of options and impressive range of combos and strategies.

Mewgenics sees you tending to a house of cats, placing furniture to improve comfort levels to both reduce infighting and increase breeding potential.

Selecting a team of 4 cats based on their stats, you then assign classes and take them on a turn-based dungeon crawl, with similar gruesome and gory themes as The Binding of Isaac.

It may all sound very bizarre, but the marriage of life simulation and turn-based strategy roguelite has made it a major hit with critics. Featuring 12+ classes, 900 items, 1200 abilities, 15 chapters, 50+ bosses and over 250 hours of gameplay; it's on par with The Binding of Isaac’s amount of content.

Due to its reception, Mewgenics has earned the attention of some major gaming personalities; Geoff Keighley and Shuhei Yoshida have both reposted about the game on X.

The developers have suggested in some prerelease streams that Mewgenics will follow their other IPs with a port coming to consoles at a later date. Additionally, there have been further comments and teases about console editions of the game on social media:

With Mewgenics launching with such acclaim already from critics, we're hopeful that it'll make the jump to PS5 in due course, and it certainly sounds like a distinct possibility.

Have you been following the hype for Mewgenics? Or are the kitties giving you the hump? Let us know in the comments below.

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