Mewgenics

This game was a disappointment for me. It is advertised as a turn base strategy game but the strategy aspect is not good enough. Due to randomness the characters are too much of a chaos and it seems impossible to create any strategy. The first few encounters were so easy I would call them lame. Then an enemy came that I had no chance against at all. Examples: I randomly got a very bad fart. It basically killed 2 of my 4 cats. I came to the conclusion that in theory it could have been used to my advantage if I could strategically place my cats. But the order of movement is fixed and the event happens at the beginning of the turn so there is no/little chance to use any strategy. Then after being defeated I would not get a chance to replay the scenario. So I will never know if I could do anything about it or not. In a well designed game you can master the scenarios so you learn the mechanics and you feel satisfaction. Here you will get a completely different set of cats for the next round and you will never know if you were just unlucky or you missed a point. I guess I would have to play several hours to encounter the bad fart again. But I will not. I realized that theoretically I could combine the features of my cats. There was one who could cross the map in one step using its tricks to get close to enemies. The other one could swap position. So in theory I could combine them to get both close to the enemy. First get close with teleport and attack. Then swap with the second cat and also attack. But in reality the order of their movement is fixed and in most cases you can not combine them powerfully. The game may have explicite rules to generate orders but because all stats are random I don't think I could or I wanted to design my team so they can combine their powers. In most strategy games you can decide the order of using your units. This opens up a bunch of combinations. In this game it feels to be on a conveyor belt that you basically have nothing to decide. Just use everything you have and hope for the best. The movement of the cats is too short and you can only move once in your turn. This results in a feeling that you are tied to your place. Then some enemies totally jump around the board meaning that you have no change to plan anything or ever reach within attack range. Having random encounters may be fun if they are not too consequential. Here you may go on an adventure which is painful to set up then you waste your playtime on boring stuff and then after tens of minutes you get a random enemy that kills all your cats. You have to restart the whole adventure to try again. And seemingly the second time the enemy will be different so you will not be able to use anything that you may have learned. For me after the failed adventure the next one was totally lame and easily won. Then comes resource management: you have to feed your cats for which the resources went low too soon. Then the game suggested to go on an adventure to gain food. The set up screen for the adventure is painful. You have to assign roles to your cats which I guess should be done after analysing their stats. Just this assigning process is so painful that I decided to not go onto any third adventure but just refund the game. I did not refund any other games yet but this time I decided to do that. Just to find out that I was already over 2 hours play time. Not that there was enough content for 2 hours. I played about 10 boards of which 9 was so easy I did not need to think at all and on 1 I died and I don't even know if it was my fault or not. It just took so long to realize that it is a painful experience to do the adventures and it does not work as a strategy game.