Mewgenics

Un petit bijou addictif ! Avec son humour noir, ses mécanismes stratégiques complexes et sa rejouabilité exceptionnelle, vous ne voudrez plus vous en séparer. Un incontournable pour les amateurs de défis originaux et de chats génétiquement modifiés :)

There's definitely a lot of good things here, but I want to focus on the bad so other players don't have to get stuck invested in a game that they'll end up frustrated with rather than enjoying like I did. 1) UI and skill description needs a lot of work I basically had ChatGPT always there to help me clarify what anything does. Ranges of skills really need to be stated as well. 2) Grind. It's weird that the moment you unlock all these great skills and abilities... You have to start over from scratch. Your team goes home, and their kittens inherit almost nothing. I know this changes later on, but 25 hours in and I was still just having strays and random cats doing the same loop again and again. There's definitely a progression block early on where you need to donate 25 cats for another room, 10 cats for more inventory space, 10 cats for breeding, 10 for something else and something else. That's like 30 runs before you even upgrade the basic level of anything. 3) Events. Usually events in games are an exciting thing. Sure, there's randomness to it. In Mewgenics, Events are pretty much to be avoided if you can (and usually you can't). The Monkey Paw event, specifically made me put the game down and never pick it up again. Nothing spoilery, but I had picked up the Callus item and was building up a lot of armor on my Cleric (healer) and was happy with my team going for a Cave run. This event comes along and tells me I can get a really powerful item so I choose it. And you know what happens? It deletes ALL MY GEAR, including the special Callus item and all the armor I had accumulated with it, and gives me something totally useless, a Lil Battery. I realized then that this is a game that likes to poorly communicate choices, punish players for no reason, and actively sabotage your plans. The game wants to cheese you. After reading other reviews, it looks like these random run-ending events and mechanics only increase in the later stages. So I'm going to put this down and hope others don't waste their time like I did.