Essential Mewgenics Tips — Complete Strategy Guide

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to optimize your runs, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to survive and thrive in Mewgenics.

Before Battle — Mewgenics Preparation Tips

Read Every Description Carefully

In Mewgenics, understanding what each ability does is crucial. Every spell, passive, and item has a detailed description — take the time to read them. Some abilities might seem weak at first glance but have powerful synergies with other skills or items. Hover over everything and make sure you understand the full impact before making decisions.

Use Tactical View

Middle-click (or press the tactical view button) to get a clearer overview of the battlefield. The tactical view removes visual clutter and shows you critical information like:

• Enemy positions and movement ranges
• Tile effects and hazards
• Your cats’ ability ranges

This is especially important in later acts where battles become chaotic with many units on screen.

Choose Survival-Oriented Classes First

When you’re starting out, prioritize classes that help your team survive:

• Cleric is essential — it provides healing and revival abilities
• Fighter offers solid DPS with good survivability
• Tank can absorb damage and protect squishier teammates
• Mage provides AoE damage to clear groups of enemies

You can experiment with more specialized classes like Necromancer or Tinkerer once you have a stable foundation.

Search the Battlefield for Resources

After winning a battle, don’t rush to end the encounter. Search the battlefield for:

• Food drops from defeated enemies
• Items hidden in destructible objects
• Coins scattered around the map

Resources are scarce in Mewgenics, especially food, so never leave a battlefield without thoroughly searching it.

In-Battle — Mewgenics Combat Tips

Aim for the Rear

Attacking enemies from behind deals bonus damage in Mewgenics. Position your cats to flank enemies whenever possible. This is especially effective with:

• High-damage classes like Butcher and Fighter
• Abilities that benefit from positioning
• Ranged classes that can attack from safe angles

Pay Attention to Turn Order

The turn order bar at the top shows who acts next. Use this information to:

• Focus fire on enemies who are about to act (reducing incoming damage)
• Time your heals and buffs for maximum effect
• Plan knockbacks and crowd control to disrupt enemy turns
• Set up cross-fire opportunities between your cats

Use Neverstones Wisely

Neverstones prevent cats from aging, which means they won’t retire after an adventure. However, they also prevent the cat from passing traits to offspring. Use Neverstones on:

• Cats with perfect builds you want to reuse
• Your best combat performers in critical runs
• Cats that took many runs to breed correctly

But don’t overuse them — breeding new generations is how you evolve your clowder.

Post-Battle — Mewgenics Recovery Tips

Level Up Thoughtfully

After each successful adventure, your surviving cats level up. You’ll be offered 4 abilities and can pick 1. Consider:

• How the ability synergizes with existing skills
• Whether it fills a gap in your team composition
• Reroll options are limited, so weigh your choices carefully
• Remember that offspring may inherit these abilities

Manage Your Inventory

Inventory space is extremely limited in the early game. Prioritize:

1. Food — this is your most critical resource
2. Healing items (Super Bandages, Smelling Salts)
3. Key quest items — don’t discard these
4. Equipment upgrades — only if they’re significant improvements

Donate cats to Butch to unlock more inventory slots.

Home Base — Mewgenics Management Tips

Take Your Time with Breeding Decisions

Don’t rush the mating process. Consider:

• Which stats and abilities you want to pass down
• Cat compatibility (relationships, orientation, aggression)
• Room furniture effects on breeding outcomes
• Whether mutations might be beneficial or harmful

Invest in upgrading Tink (the breeding NPC) early to reveal hidden cat traits.

Prioritize NPC Upgrades

The recommended upgrade order for NPCs is:

1. Butch — Inventory storage (critical for resource management)
2. Baby Jack — Furniture (affects home stats and breeding)
3. Tink — Breeding information (reveals hidden traits)
4. Frank — House expansion (more rooms for more cats)
5. Tracy — Shop upgrades and blank collars

Don’t Get Too Attached to Your Cats

This is perhaps the hardest lesson in Mewgenics. Cats retire after adventures, age and eventually die, and sometimes meet unfortunate ends in battle. The game is designed around building lineages rather than keeping individual cats forever. Embrace the cycle — your best cats’ legacy lives on through their offspring.

Keep Your Home Clean

Cats produce waste that lowers comfort stats in your home. Low comfort leads to:

• Injuries and illness
• Reduced breeding success
• Lower overall cat happiness

Clean up regularly and invest in furniture that boosts comfort.

Advanced Mewgenics Tips

Experiment with Hybrid Builds

The most powerful setups in Mewgenics often come from unexpected combinations:

• A Mage with inherited Fighter passives
• A Cleric with Necromancer summon abilities
• A Tank with Thief’s Pickpocket for resource generation

Breeding cats from different class backgrounds creates opportunities for broken synergies.

End Runs Early When Needed

There’s no shame in retreating from a run that’s going poorly. You still keep some items and your surviving cats can breed. A failed run isn’t wasted if it produces good offspring for future attempts.

Take Advantage of Non-Battle Spaces

Between battles, you’ll encounter event nodes on the adventure map. These can provide:

• Stat boosts
• Free items
• Healing opportunities
• Story progression

Always explore these when possible, but be prepared — some events have negative outcomes based on skill checks.