Mewgenics is easily my favourite game of 2026 so far—in fact, I gave it 92% in our review. I love its emergent storytelling, its chaotic build-crafting, and its incredible depth. What I wouldn't claim, however, is that it's perfectly balanced.
The upcoming 1.1 Mewgenics patch is taking a very serious look at these pain points with a much more dramatic suite of changes than I expected. While a date isn't set yet for when this update will go live on the main branch, it is already available as a beta. The developers have released a full set of patch notes that look like very welcome news for players.
Major Class Changes in the Upcoming Mewgenics Patch
The real meat of the update involves significant class rebalancing. On the negative side, the ever-reliable hunter has received a substantial nerf, featuring less damage and reduced scaling on key abilities. Additionally, the fighter's Merciless passive will no longer trigger from actions that cost movement, effectively kneecapping several infinite combos I certainly didn't exploit during our review process.
However, there are far more buffs than nerfs in this update. The mage and tinkerer classes are coming out of this change looking much stronger. Mages now have a substantial increase in basic attack range, meaning your squishy glass cannons don't have to rush the front lines as often. Big improvements have also been made to spell damage, including the Forbidden spells which previously felt too risky for their side effects.
Tinkerers are also seeing massive improvements to their survivability and consistency:
- Weapons can now be thrown without costing an action.
- Mana costs have been reduced.
- New ways to gain the tech buff have been added.
- An inherent resistance to explosive damage has been added to various bomb-based passives.
Breeding Systems and Event Adjustments
Beyond combat, the developers are addressing some of the more punishing random events. The most problematic events—such as those requiring you to sacrifice a cat for potentially no good outcome—have been substantially toned down. On the event side, this Mewgenics patch aims to make the chaos much more rewarding and less frustrating.
Some significant changes have also been made to breeding. The developers are preventing the abuse of the mutation stat to avoid birth defects caused by in-breeding, though only the most min-max focused players will likely notice. Furthermore, a few bosses like the Coven fight have received health boosts to increase the challenge.
Finally, I have to shout out my new favourite patch note: "Hitler's suicide can no longer miss." It is a top-tier sentence out of context and a perfect testament to the endless web of wildly overlapping systems found in this game. You can find the full instructions for trying the beta branch on the game's Steam page.
Full 1.1 Patch Notes Breakdown
Breeding/House Changes
- Fixed some issues with high amounts of negative Stimulation.
- Fixed Stimulation treating birth defects on parents the same as positive mutations. Higher stimulation now decreases the chance of inheriting birth defects.
- The effects of Stimulation are now reduced the more inbred a kitten is.
- The chances of inheriting a parent's birth defect are significantly increased the more inbred the kitten is.
- "Mutation" stat will no longer reroll any existing mutations or birth defects.
- "Mutation" stat will now only roll simple mutations (+2/-1 stat ones) until >10 Mutation. More Mutation beyond this will increase the chance of rolling mutations with effects.
- Heads that have 1 eye/eyebrow/ear (ex. Cyclops) will no longer also count as the "Missing" birth defect for the other eye/eyebrow/ear.
Events
- Baphomet: Removed bad outcomes from sacrifice and lose 10 HP options.
- Steven Fetus: Removed Deja Vu from bad event outcome and replaced with a new pool of disorders.
- Sacrificial Altar: Removed bad outcomes from sacrificing cats.
- Itchies or Wheezies: Itchies now also gives a forever flea familiar; Wheezies now also gives +2 LCK.
- Insatiable Rage tragedy: No longer only gives Blood Frenzy.
- Infestation weather event: Units now only spawn charmed maggots when killed.
Disorders/Parasites
- Hypersomnia: Fixed order Sleep applies so that passives/items affecting sleep can trigger correctly.
- Malaria: Now only reduces CON.
- Naegleria Fowleri: Become AI controlled instead of dead at 0 INT.
- Schrodinger’s Syndrome: +1 to all stats and gain an extra turn at the start of battle.
- Sociopathy: -5 CHA, +5 INT.
Class Specifics
Cleric
- Cleanse: Now single-target; range increased to compensate. Upgrade changed to hit a large area.
- Open Wounds: Now deals magic damage.
Druid
- Plant Mushroom: -2 mana cost.
- Summon Caterpillar: -1 mana cost.
Fighter
- Merciless: No longer triggers during actions that cost movement points.
Hunter
- Ball Of Spiders: No longer scales damage with DEX.
- Egg Sac Trap: -1 mana cost.
- Flea Shot: No longer scales damage with DEX.
- Heavy shot: -2 damage, 50% miss chance, +1 mana cost.
- Hunter's Boon: Now only triggers once per turn, but triggers off of any kill and not just enemies.
- Scattershot: +3 mana cost; upgrade no longer exempts allies from its radius.
Mage
- Mage Basic attack: +2 range.
- Blizzard: Reworked to deal very high damage with 100% Freeze (and no Slow).
- Bolt: +2 range.
- Burning Paws: +1 Burn (upgrade +2 Burn).
- Fire Blast: +2 range.
- Firebolt: +2 range, +1 burn.
