The “countless cat breeding RPG” Mewgenics confirmed up on the PC Gaming Present yesterday with one other weird trailer and a brand new launch date: As an alternative of arriving in 2025 as deliberate, it is now set to reach on February 10, 2026. And there is truly a fairly good purpose for the delay.
“Dude, hear. Launching in Nov–Dec is tough,” Mewgenics mastermind Edmund McMillen defined on Steam. “We would like this recreation to get the eye it deserves and don’t need to compete with holidays and vacation AAA releases. And truthfully, including a couple of extra months to dev means launching with an much more closely examined and polished expertise!”
That appears fully affordable to me. The vacation quarter—generally referred to by retailers as “the golden quarter”—could be extremely profitable, but it surely’s additionally completely overrun by builders and publishers trying to money in on the spirit of the season.
That is not a lot a problem with videogames, although, that are free from the shackles of in-store stock and car parking zone chaos: The appearance of digital distribution, significantly on PC, means video games, and particularly indie video games, can develop into large hits at any time. Balatro dropped in February 2024, for example, and did fairly properly for itself, and Dave the Diver made an enormous splash when it confirmed up in June 2023. Today, selecting your spot is usually extra vital than being a part of the standard seasonal rush.
And it might not be only a matter of dodging the festive crowds, as a result of it feels like there’s nonetheless a good chunk of labor to do earlier than Mewgenics is able to roll—though the brand new launch date offers the staff a stable eight months to get all the pieces completed. McMillen supplied an inventory of the event work remaining:
- The ultimate boss is drawn and half animated—he/she/it is going to hopefully be carried out by the top of the month!
- We’ve began including laborious path rewards and random gen gadgets for mentioned rewards (that is very cool stuff!).
- A lot of new cutscenes have been added! Now we have 4 giant cutscenes and 6 small cutscenes to go!
- We went forward and had Ridiculon add 3 extra tracks to the sport for some additional late-game spice!
- Subsequent week we begin to implement alt/shiny furnishings! (That is additionally very cool!)
- Massive secret late-game system has been absolutely carried out!
“We all know you wanna play, we would like you to play!” McMillen wrote. “And beginning in some unspecified time in the future in Jan we’ll begin doing reside streams, or one thing? I dunno the small print but however I am positive it’ll occur quickly! Additionally extra hands-on previews are within the works! And perhaps much more trailers?! Who is aware of?!”
Hopefully McMillen does. I assume we’ll wait to see what occurs in February.