All Cat Stats in Mewgenics (& What They Do)
As you progress through Mewgenics, you’ll come up against increasingly challenging enemies you’ll need to beat in fights. Not only that, but the chance encounters you come across on a run will require your cats to have higher stats to pass their checks and get a positive outcome. While each cat has its own set of stats, it’s not immediately clear what each stat affects in the game’s combat. In this Mewgenics stats guide, I’ll explain everything you need to know about each one.
Which Cats Should You Choose at the Start of Mewgenics?
At the very start of Mewgenics, you’ll need to choose two cats from a selection of three. But which should you choose? Here’s what you need to know.
All Stats in Mewgenics and What They Do
Each stat in Mewgenics determines how a cat will perform in combat. These stats are given to a cat at birth, and can be improved through combat, equipping a collar, and certain passive abilities. These are all listed below:
- Strength: Affects melee attack and melee ability damage.
- Dexterity: Affects ranged attack and ranged ability damage.
- Constitution: Affects max health and post-combat regen.
- Intelligence: Determines the speed at which a cat’s mana regenerates.
- Speedy: Determines turn order and movement range.
- Charisma: Determines max mana and starting mana.
- Luck: Determines base crit chance and all randomness elements in the game.
Some stats are far more important to a particular cat depending on the attacks and abilities they have. For example, a cat with high Dexterity and Intelligence stats is perfect for a cat that has no melee abilities and relies largely on ranged and mana-based attacks.
How Do Stats Work in Chance Scenarios?
When you come across a chance encounter (marked with a ‘?’ on the little map) on a run in Mewgenics, you’ll be given a scenario with two different ways you can approach it. For example, one may see one of your cats in a tunnel filled with spider webs and give you the option of fighting your way through it or stealthily sneaking past and avoiding getting caught up in the webs. Each of these options will have a stat assigned to them, for example, physical and dexterity.
If your stat is high enough for one of the scenario’s options, you’ll be more likely to succeed and complete the scenario, netting yourself some goodies in the process. This might be food, coins, or items you can equip to your cats. If your stats aren’t high enough, you may fail and then go into the next fight with a negative buff, or even worse, be put up against a powerful enemy in another battle.
Keep in mind that the starting cats in Mewgenics are all more or less the same, so in the early stages you might find that you struggle to succeed in these encounters, and failing a run can result in some heavy losses to your cat-breeding regime.
- Released
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February 10, 2026
- Developer(s)
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Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel
- Publisher(s)
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Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel
- Number of Players
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Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
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Unknown
