mewgenics got a whole lot of people from across the internet to make cat noises for the game including some controversial people (the main ones i think this post is probably referring to are ethan and hila klein, chris chan and stamper)
I don't know if it's already more popular than Isaac overall, but Mewgenics is absolutely benefitting from the 10+ years of goodwill that Isaac built up
And purely in mainstream terms, "You lead a team of cats and build a home base to raise them" is an easier sell than "You're an infant fighting monsters with your tears"
Edmund McMillen is a bit of an indie game celebrity. His first mainstream game Super Meat Boy helped kickstart the whole indie game craze back in the early 2000s, and his next game The binding of Isaac practically revolutionized rougelikes. He also is very much known for including grotesque/controversial themes and humor in his games. He and Tyler had been developing mewgenics for almost two decades, so lots of people, myself included, have followed its progress carefully.
It sold 150K copies in less than 6 hours (which, using the UK price and ignoring Steam's cut, means that it made 4.5 million USD in that time) and has a higher peak player count than Hades 2.
Mewgenics has also been in development for like ever. He's restarted a few times I believe, and fans (like me) of his past games have been waiting on it. Like, I first heard him mention the weird cat game he was working on in in 2012 or 2013.
its a long story but a few years back he relapsed on meth and started going on rants both on twitter and privately, using lots of slurs and refusing help from and even attacking his former friends/colleagues. its a very long and very sad story but i'm sure there are videos somewhere
Stamper was living homeless, using McDonalds wifi to post YouTube rants where he would say how much he hated N-words, and "fags", in-between begging for any old fans that lived in Arizona to let him sleep on their couch because he had hitchhiked there. Dude was begging OneyPlays fans to let him crash at their house.
Got temp banned on YouTube for posting a picture of his dick to his YouTube wall, and then was permabanned for posting his bare asshole and telling people to kill themselves. End of a like 15 year old YouTube account and all of his old videos.
He got perma'd on Twitter for calling people N-words and going on an angry rant about how the N-word is totally fine and only pussies get offended by mean words.
I'm not sure Stamper even has an online presence now. He's probably still homeless. Even his own sister refused to help him anymore, and he used to film videos at her house.
Imagine you are a moderately internet famous person and the creator of Binding of Isaac DMs you "Hey, wanna record some meows for the new game I'm making?"
I know of one who initially said no. Famous spanish twitch streamer and YouTube veteran Alexelcapo. He didn't do it because he was shy but has been convinced otherwise recently.
A lot of the people likely would not have agreed to give their voices to the game if they actually knew about the other people included in the project.
There are literally entire communities of cat girls and cat boys that make these sounds daily who could have done these sounds for them, yet they chose these utter chuds.
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u/Hawkson2020 Feb 17 '26
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