🐱 MEWGENICS — THE CHAOTIC CAT-BREEDING TACTICS RPG COMES TO CONSOLES

Aug 26

2 min read

Mewgenics is the next Gamescom 2026 title we can cover. It is from Supergiant Games? Wait, correction: The Binding of Isaac creators Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel / Team Meat? Let’s avoid an inaccurate studio claim.

At Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026, it was announced that the cat-breeding tactical RPG, which launched on PC earlier in 2026, is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. The console version is scheduled for September 8, 2026.

🐾 WHAT IS MEWGENICS?

Mewgenics combines:

🐱 Cat breeding
⚔️ Tactical turn-based combat
🧬 Genetic traits
🎲 Procedurally generated adventures
🏠 Cat management
💀 Permadeath
🗺️ Exploration
🤯 Completely unpredictable combinations

The central idea is simple: breed cats, create your team, and send them into increasingly dangerous tactical battles.

🧬 BREED YOUR PERFECT TEAM

Every cat can have different characteristics and abilities.

Breeding allows players to create new generations with different combinations of traits, meaning your roster can evolve over time.

A seemingly useless cat might produce an unexpectedly powerful descendant.

⚔️ TURN-BASED TACTICAL COMBAT

Once your cats are ready, they head into tactical battles.

You’ll need to consider:

Positioning → Abilities → Team composition → Enemy types → Cat traits

And because the game is deliberately unpredictable, even a carefully planned run can go completely wrong.

💀 LOSING A CAT MATTERS

One of the game’s defining characteristics is its roguelike structure.

Your decisions can have permanent consequences, making each expedition potentially dangerous.

That creates the classic feeling of:

“One more run.”

Except this time, you’re sending a team of genetically engineered cats into battle. 🐱

🎮 GAMESCOM 2026

The Gamescom announcement focused on the game’s console release, bringing Mewgenics to a much larger audience.

The console versions are coming to:

🎮 PlayStation 5

🎮 Xbox Series X|S

🎮 Nintendo Switch 2

📅 September 8, 2026

🔥 WHY MEWGENICS IS WORTH COVERING

It’s one of the strangest combinations in the Gamescom 2026 lineup:

CAT BREEDING + GENETICS + ROGUELIKE + TACTICAL RPG

And that’s exactly why it stands out.

🐱 Breed.

🧬 Mutate.

⚔️ Fight.

💀 Lose everything.

🐾 Start again.

Mewgenics arrives on consoles September 8, 2026.

Read the NewFormat Gamescom coverage⁠

Next after Mewgenics, we can move to another title that is still missing from NewFormat — such as Genigods: Nezha, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Turok: Origins, Gravhounds, LEGO Skylines or Exterminauts.