13 February 2026

Mewgenics Tips & Tricks

By newsgame

Mewgenics is the creepy cat strategy game. While its aesthetics might look unserious, the core gameplay mechanics and elements are pretty serious stuff. Whether you’re struggling to get your head around the various systems, need some pointers in combat, or just want some advice on your cat breeding abode, fear not. I’ve compiled a list of the best Mewgenics tips and tricks to help you push your runs further than before and get the most out of your time with the game.

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.

Focus on Furniture to Help Breed Better Cats

While the quality of your cats largely comes down to RNG at the beginning of the game, it won’t take long until you can start to take some control over the strays that come by your house each day, as well as the quality of your kittens (more on that later).

Baby Jack is an NPC that will take in any injured cats that you have. Injuries can be picked up in battle, or if your cats fight one another in your house. When you have weak, injured cats, send them to Baby Jack, and he’ll then begin stocking furniture you can buy for your house.

This furniture can improve the Comfort, Stimulation, Health, Mutation, and Appeal stats of your house and the rooms inside it. Each one plays a significant part in Mewgenics, explained below.

Comfort: This stat, represented by a sleeping cat, determines how often your cats will breed.
Appeal: This stat is represented by a house icon and affects the quality of the strays that appear outside your house every day. The higher the appeal, the better the stats of the stray cats.
Mutation: The DNA icon represents this, and the Mutation stat of a room in your house determines how like a cat in that room will mutate.
Stimulation: The yarn ball icon represents Stimulation, which determines how many stats and abilities can be passed down from parent cats to their kitten, and improves the chances of the kitten inheriting the best of picks of both.
Health: The little health icon stat determines how likely your cats are to recover from wounds and diseases at the end of a day.

Improving these stats will play a huge part in making good progression in Mewgenics, so don’t shy away from throwing your injured cats at Baby Jack to get some fresh furniture for your home as soon as possible.

Donate Cats When They’re Past Their Prime

Just because little Twinkle was one of your first cats to complete a run, doesn’t mean that they’re of any value to you anymore. Know when to cut the cord and let your cats live out a life with one of the NPCs in the game.

Each NPC takes on different types of cat:

Butch: Cats that have reached certain areas on a run
Baby Jack: Injured cats
Frank: Retired cats
Tink: Kittens
Dr Beanies: Cats with mutations
Tracy: Cats age five or older

These characters will give you new items or upgrades in exchange for the cats you give to them, so it’s well worth letting your cats go once they’ve done their job.

Keep your very best cats for breeding and for certain fights that involve using the cats in your house, even if they’re retired.

Pick Level Up Abilities and Cat Collars Carefully

This is more of a general “Think carefully!” tip for all things Mewgenics. Remember, this is a game of strategy, and there are a number of ways you can give yourself the upper hand if you plan carefully.

When you’re picking a collar for a cat, take the time to match their stats to a corresponding role on your team. When you level up a cat, think about the abilities you’re picking and look for synergies between their existing moves and the ones on offer. A cat with a freeze ability is perfect for the Shatter ability that lets them insta-kill standard frozen enemies, or deal damage to larger bosses.

There are plenty of combinations like these in Mewgenics that can become a game-changer if you’re struggling to get far on a run.

Don’t Hoard Consumable Items

Winning battles, chance encounters, and Tracy’s shop can all reward you with consumable items that you can equip to your cats. These may be weapons that deal more damage or have greater range, or an item that removes debuffs. A lot of these will have a limited number of uses before they’re gone for good.

While it might be scary to empty an item’s charges, don’t fret. You’re going to come across so many different items that chances are you won’t have to wait long to come across that very same item again. Put them to good use and they can take you much further in a run than you might expect.

Use Your House’s Rooms Smartly

When you first start in Mewgenics, you’ll just have one room. However, after giving your first cat to Frank, you’ll unlock the attic for your house. This then allows you to separate cats, which in turn determines which cats can breed with which.

It also means that if you’re finding two cats are constantly fighting, you have a way of separating them and avoiding the inevitable injuries that come from them. Keep your best cats together to breed strong kittens, separate fighting cats, and put the weak cats you no longer have a need for out of the way to give your top cats plenty of space to roam and improve their comfort level.

Check Cat Lineage to Avoid Inbreeding

As I noted above, your house’s rooms will become integral to a well-oiled cat breeding facility. However, don’t just throw your best cats in one room and leave it there. Make sure that the cats in the same room aren’t also in the same family tree and are mating.

If they are, inbreeding will ensue, and you’ll end up getting birth defects. Even if they don’t have a defect, inbred cats will generally be weaker and less useful for your ventures into battle. Whenever you have a mutated cat, send it over to Dr. Beanies, or if it’s a kitten, Tink will also be happy to take it off your hands.

Movement on the Battlefield Is Key

Just because you’re close to an enemy doesn’t mean you should just continue to hack away at it from the front. Always try to get behind an enemy, as you’ll deal 25% more damage. This might sound like a lot, but it can add up, especially in drawn-out boss battles.

Also, keep in mind that the battlefield is filled with different items to pick up, and potentially hazards to avoid. Fire squares will damage you if you move a cat through them, while coins and healing items can come in clutch during a long run.

Clean Up Poop to Keep Cats Comfortable and Healthy

At the start of a new day, you’ll find some fresh poop in your house. While this might not seem like a big deal, just clear it up as soon as you see it. Poop negatively impacts the comfort level of your house, which determines how often your cats will breed. It can also play a part in your cats catching diseases.

As such, it’s one of the most important house stats that you’ll want to pay attention to, alongside Appeal and Stimulation. As you give Baby Jack more injured cats, he’ll stock more furniture for your house. A lot of this can also improve the comfort level of your cats, so as I noted before, buy it as often as you can.

Clerics Are Your Best Friend

If there’s one thing I learned pretty early on in Mewgenics, it was that having a Cleric in your party of cats you take out on an adventure is key to a successful run. Clerics are able to heal and revive your other cats with their abilities.

Other cats will have to rely on picking up food or healing items off the battlefield, having healing items equipped to them, or soaking up the HP rewarded for completing a battle to otherwise recover from combat. Keep a cleric close, and you can keep your cats healthier for much longer than normal.