Mewgenics is weird, brutal, and far deeper than it seems. Between breeding cats, managing your house, and surviving tactical battles, it is easy to make early mistakes that snowball into disaster. These Mewgenics tips and tricks for beginners will help you build stronger bloodlines, extend your runs, and avoid unnecessary heartbreak.
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Grab as Much Food as You Can
At the beginning of Mewgenics, 50 portions of cat food feel like a lifetime supply. With four cats in your house, you might think you’re completely safe. A few nights later, stray cats move in. Kittens are born. Suddenly, you’re feeding ten or more mouths every single day, and that comfortable stockpile vanishes fast.
To avoid a crisis:
- Grab food whenever you see it in shops
- Prioritize food during adventures when possible
- Consider saving up for the 100 coin food storage upgrade early
Keep Your Home Tidy
Your house in Mewgenics is more than a backdrop. It directly shapes how your cats grow, breed, and survive. Furniture stats matter more than you might think, and ignoring them can ruin a promising bloodline.
Each piece of furniture affects your home in different ways:
- Comfort increases breeding chances and reduces fights
- Stimulation improves the odds that kittens inherit skills
- Health boosts recovery from injuries and diseases
- Mutation raises the chance of unique new traits appearing
- Appeal attracts stronger stray cats
Open the Furniture menu to rearrange objects. Pay attention to the small plug icons that mark valid placement spots. You can decorate however you like, but always keep an eye on the room stats.
And yes, you absolutely need to clean up poop. It lowers Comfort and Health, which hurts your entire household. Use the Furniture menu to spot droppings more easily, then click them away fast.
Mewgenics Tips: How to Heal
When you pick your four cats in Mewgenics, you also assign their collars, which define their classes. You can mix attackers, rangers, thieves, and more, but early on, you should always include a Cleric. Their basic attack heals allies, and later skills can even revive fallen cats. That kind of safety net is priceless.
Outside of a Cleric, healing mostly comes from:
- Random consumable drops
- Small amounts of post-round regeneration
- Food you find during battles
Levels are full of strange debris, and a surprising amount of it is edible. Hover over objects to see if they can be eaten. If a cat stands on food, it automatically consumes it. It’s easy to forget this while focusing on positioning and abilities, but grabbing free healing from the floor can completely change the outcome of a fight.
Kill the Birds ASAP
When birds appear in Mewgenics, they look suspicious. You might assume they are enemies, but they are actually neutral. If you middle-click them, you’ll see the grey counter that confirms it. Still, you should take them out immediately.
Birds don’t have much health, but they:
- Move to a new tile when damaged
- Fly away after a few rounds
- Block valuable space on the battlefield
If you manage to kill one in time, you get a free item and an All Stats Up buff for the cat that lands the final blow. That boost can make a big difference in tough encounters or against mini bosses.
Donate Your Cats
It feels wrong at first, but you can’t keep every cat in Mewgenics. Your house fills up quickly with strays and retired adventurers, and more cats mean more food, more poop, more diseases, and more personality clashes that can end in disaster. Donating cats isn’t cruel. It’s necessary for progression.
Meta upgrades are tied directly to giving away cats. By sending unwanted felines down the pipe to the left of your house, you unlock powerful improvements like:
- New rooms from Frank, who wants retired cats
- Rare furniture from Baby Jack, who prefers injured cats
- Shop and item management upgrades
- Recovery of lost items after failed runs
How to Build a Balanced Team
Before you jump into a run, take a minute to look at your cats’ collars, which represent the 14 classes available in Mewgenics. At the start, you only have a few available, but more unlock over time. From classic roles like Tank and Mage to niche picks like Butcher or Tinkerer, each collar changes how a cat performs in battle. When building your squad, think in roles.
A solid setup usually includes:
- A frontline bruiser like a Tank or Fighter
- A ranged damage dealer like a Hunter or Mage
- A support or utility class, such as Cleric or Thief
Stats matter too. Tanks need high Constitution to survive hits. Hunters and Thieves benefit from Dexterity for stronger ranged attacks. But don’t be afraid to experiment. A healing-focused kitten wearing a Tank collar can become a self-sustaining wall.
You also don’t always need four cats in Mewgenics. Smaller teams level faster because XP is shared among fewer units. It’s riskier, but the power spike can be worth it.
Most importantly, don’t throw away your best retired cats. Strong abilities and passives can be passed down through breeding, letting you recreate powerful builds in future runs. You will also need retired cats later for special encounters, so protect your elite veterans.
Skill Tips
Every cat starts simple. Level 1 gives you a basic attack and usually one general active skill. Once you equip a collar, you unlock a class-specific active and passive ability, and that is where builds truly begin.
Leveling in Mewgenics follows a clear pattern, and knowing it helps you plan ahead:
- Level 2 unlocks a new active skill
- Level 3 unlocks a new passive
- Level 4 gives +2 stats and a full heal
- Level 5 adds another active
- Level 6 upgrades an existing active
- Level 7 upgrades a passive
After that, extra stat boosts become more common.
The key is synergy. Don’t just grab the flashiest option. If your cat lays traps with basic attacks, choose passives that boost trap damage. If a skill revolves around poop mechanics, lean into it and stack effects that trigger from those mechanics. One well-built combo is stronger than three random abilities. Always draft with a long-term plan.
Mewgenics Combat Guide
Combat in Mewgenics is fully turn-based, but don’t mistake it for slow or forgiving. Every move matters, and one bad position can cost you a cat.
Each unit acts based on its Speed stat. On your turn, you can usually move once and perform one basic attack. However, as long as you have mana, you can keep casting abilities. Managing resources is just as important as dealing damage.
Positioning Wins Fights
Movement is everything.
- Attacking from behind deals extra damage
- Exposing your own back lets enemies hit harder
- You can choose the direction your cat faces before ending the turn
Always think one turn ahead. Once you move, there is no undo.
Use the Battlefield
The arena isn’t just decoration. Use your surroundings to your advantage.
- Fire spreads across grass
- Ice freezes water and causes sliding
- Rocks can be pushed into enemies for knockback damage
- Pickups restore health, mana, or armor
Know Your Enemies
Always read enemy descriptions in Mewgenics. Every enemy has a distinct behavior. Some flee when hurt. Others target whoever hit them. A few have instant-kill melee attacks, so never let them close in carelessly.
Certain class abilities can charm or revive enemies, even those with one-hit-kill skills. Turning a deadly foe into an ally can completely flip a boss fight. Play patiently, control space, and never charge in blindly.
Customize Your Run with PLITCH!
If you want more control over the chaos in the game, PLITCH’s Mewgenics cheats let you fine-tune the experience to fit your playstyle.
Struggling with brutal encounters? Activate Unlimited Health for Player Cats or go fully Invincible to experiment with risky builds. If your strategy relies on heavy ability use, Unlimited Mana, Unlimited Moves, or Unlimited Attacks lets you unleash your full potential every turn.
Want to test extreme glass cannon setups? Lower a cat’s health on purpose and boost your damage with the Damage To AI Multiplier. You can also adjust core stats like Strength, Dexterity, or Speed to craft the perfect bloodline before a run even begins.
On the management side, add Food or Gold Coins to stabilize your house and focus solely on team building. Whether you want a safety net or pure sandbox freedom, the choice is yours.
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