Mewgenics, the new roguelite RPG battler from The Binding of Isaac developer Edmund McMillen and The End Is Nigh‘s Tyler Glaiel, has proven to be an extraordinary success. Launched February 10, during less than a week on sale has hit the #2 spot on Steam’s bestsellers and seen an extraordinary 115,428 simultaneous players—extraordinary because this is a single-player, offline game. At the time of writing it has more people playing than Overwatch. Given this, McMillen has announced that the game will be coming to consoles and receiving DLC. Oh, and it’s incredible soundtrack is now available to buy.
Mewgenics is the bastard child of Slay the Spire, X-COM and Rogue Legacy, a game about taking a team of cats on an adventure to fight in a series of turn-based RPG battles, then breeding the victors to create your next crew. And while we don’t know officially sales numbers yet, it’s fair to say they’re not small. On launch day, just three hours after the game came out, Glaiel posted that the seven-year development budget had already been recouped. Glaiel has also posted that 650,000 people had played the game by Friday, and assuming those are all legitimate sales, that’s over $12 million after Steam’s cut.
There was also a moment of excitement for the pair when the game showed more players than Hades 2.
All this means there’s budget and an assumed audience to bring the game to consoles. There are no specifics yet, with updates promised for later, but given the game works well with a controller it’ll be a natural fit for Xbox, PS5 and Switch. I also cannot fathom why this isn’t already on mobile, given it’d be the perfect medium.
The success also means DLC is in the works, and that’s no small feature either, given the core game is so big that the developers reckon still no one’s finished it.
Mewgenics updates:
-OST is live on the steam page
-it’s coming to consoles ( updates later )
-there will be dlc
-update with some bug fixes soonish
-mewgenics merch here > https://t.co/lKGyqrsAU8— 🜏 Edmund McMillen 🜏 (@edmundmcmillen) February 15, 2026
Certainly not least, the OST is now up on Steam. It contains an astonishing 82 tracks, and only 27 of them are instrumentals. That means you can hear all the originally recorded songs that pop up while playing, with all their barmy lyrics, even if you can’t reach the second act.
