10½ Tips That'll Make Your Life Easier in Mewgenics

These tips go beyond the basics. If you already know how to breed cats and survive the first few days, it’s time to learn the combat mechanics and hidden interactions that separate good players from great ones.

½. Rub Cats Together Every Turn

This is the single most important thing you should do every turn: take a cat and rub it on another cat. This interaction triggers stat-related effects that compound over time. Don’t skip it — make it a habit at the start of every single turn.

1. Set Your Cat’s Facing Direction

After moving or attacking, you can manually choose which direction your cat faces by selecting any tile in one of the four cardinal directions around it.

Point your cat’s back toward a wall or away from enemies
The vulnerable rear (the exposed “banana slice” on their backside) takes extra damage
Always protect the cat butt after every action

Tip: Get in the habit of checking your facing direction after every move. It’s free and can save you from a devastating backstab.

Setting cat facing direction after attack

2. Cook Food with Fire for Strength Buffs

Any food item you find on the ground can be upgraded by fire:

Hit food with a fire-damage ability to turn it into Cooked Food
Eating cooked food grants +1 Strength on top of its normal healing
This works on small, medium, and large food — the size doesn’t matter
If your cat is currently on fire, simply walking over food will auto-cook and eat it

Tip: Always look for opportunities to cook food before eating. A free +1 Strength every time adds up fast.

Cooking food with fire damage for strength buff

3. Melee Attacks Collect Nearby Consumables

Your melee attacks can pick up consumables from adjacent tiles — you don’t need to land directly on them. Use this to:

Grab a coin you already walked past
Snag healing items next to you before moving away
Collect loot without wasting a turn on positioning

4. Use Rocks for Long-Range Strikes

Small rocks scattered around the battlefield (or spawned by certain abilities) have a sliding mechanic when hit:

At the start of combat, you may be out of range for a standard attack — smacking a rock lets you strike across the entire map
Move to a tile diagonal to a rock, then hit it — rocks can slide diagonally too
Rocks can be flung over obstacles with uppercut effects
The possibilities are enormous and can completely change a fight

Hitting a rock for long-range diagonal strike

5. The Shovel — Best Item in the Game

The Shovel is one of the most versatile items available. Here’s why:

Launches enemies airborne — they bounce off other units for combo damage
Flings scenery into enemies (yes, you can shovel a tornado)
Gifts consumables from the ground to allies who need them more
Digs up a corpse every time it’s used

Necromancer Combo

Equip the Shovel on a Necromancer for an insanely powerful synergy:

Every shovel use digs up a body
The Necromancer uses that corpse to spawn minions
With the right items (e.g., an item granting +2 shields to spawned minions), you can build a massive army that devours the map

Shovel necromancer combo spawning minion army

6. Tall Grass & Tile Manipulation

Understanding tile effects is critical for mid-to-late game success.

Growing Tall Grass

Short grass + Water = Tall Grass
Anything standing in tall grass has a 50% chance to dodge attacks
If your cat is wet, walking through short grass automatically grows it into tall grass

Dealing with Enemy Tall Grass

Enemies in tall grass also get the 50% dodge chance. Counter this by:

Burning the grass away with fire
Using tile-changing abilities (water, ice, brambles) to replace the tall grass
The early-game mini-boss Fenreer loves to cheese in tall grass — remove it to land your hits

Tip: Always have at least one tile-changing ability on your team. Something as simple as a water spell can replace tall grass with a water tile, eliminating the dodge chance.

Using water spell to remove enemy tall grass

7. Flower Tiles — OP Healing and Evasion

Flower patches are game-changing for your squad:

Tile Type	Health Regen	Mana Regen	Dodge Chance
Flower	+2	+2	—
Tall Flower (flower + water)	+3	+3	50%

How to Maximize Flowers

Find or spawn a flower patch
Use a water ability on flowers to grow them into tall flowers
Position your cats on the tall flower tiles for massive regen + dodge

Warning: Tall flowers can be burned, replaced by other tiles, or flattened if a large unit or object slides over them. Protect your flower tiles!

Growing flowers into tall flowers with water ability

Hidden Elemental Effects

Check for the tiny icon on the top of ability cards to see their elemental type. Some abilities have water or fire effects you might not expect. Other useful elemental combos include:

Shattering ice for area damage
Using wind to spread fire across enemies

8. Home Comfort — Use the Attic

Too many cats in one room lowers the comfort stat, which causes your cats to fight each other between days.

Early-game fix:

Move cats you don’t plan to breed up to the Attic
Put kittens (who can’t breed yet) up there too
This increases comfort in your main room by reducing overcrowding

Farming Dead Cats

You can drag cats outside your home and leave them there. Without food access, they will die in a few days. This is useful for farming dead cats to donate to the NPC in town that only accepts deceased cats.

Moving cats to attic to increase comfort

9. Kill the Birds for All-Stats Buff

Some maps spawn a special bird (Steven the Seagull and others). Whoever lands the final blow gets an all stats +1 buff for the rest of the battle.

In long fights, prioritize birds immediately for the stat boost
Birds may also drop items if you’re lucky
In Tactical View, birds appear as a weird derpy face icon

Tip: If it’s a long battle ahead, the stat buff is worth diverting actions to kill the bird early.

10. Destroy Crates & Environmental Objects

Look for objects on the map that say “What could be inside?” — crates, tombstones, and other breakable items:

In Tactical View, watch for eight-sided symbols — these are interactive environmental objects
Destroying crates often yields a big payout of coins and sometimes items
Destroying corpses also spits out extra coins that weren’t there before
Ignoring these objects means you’re missing out on dozens of free coins and gear

Destroying environmental crate for coin loot

Bonus: Class-Specific Tips

Tank — Throw Scrap Combo

The Tank’s Throw Scrap ability drops scrap that can be picked up for a stacking shield buff. Since the Tank’s basic attack moves you forward one tile:

Throw scrap one tile in front of an enemy
Attack — you move into the scrap while dealing damage
Every attack becomes damage + shield at the same time

Hunter — Fix Your Accuracy

Hunters often get high-damage abilities with low accuracy (e.g., Arrow Flurry fires multiple shots at 50% hit chance). Look for items with the “Physical attacks don’t miss” modifier:

One-Eyed Glasses (Monocle) make every shot connect at 100% accuracy
This bypasses tall grass dodge chance too
Arrow Flurry + Monocle = massive guaranteed damage spike

Hunter monocle item for guaranteed accuracy

Quick Tip: Check Enemy Attack Ranges

To find a safe tile where you won’t take damage:

Right-click an enemy (PC) / Hold X (Xbox/Steam Deck) / Hold Square (PlayStation)
This highlights the area that enemy can strike
Hover over the turn order bar at the top while holding the input to quickly scan all enemies’ threat zones

Source: YouTube Channel Boomstick Gaming — Watch the original video