History VideoGame / MewGenics

* PermaDeath: The subject of update #5. If every cat in a party is downed in combat or enough time passes after a cat completes an adventure, they really die and are lost forever. However, if a cat is downed in combat, its body isn't destroyed and the party wins, it'll bounce back with a permanent stat-altering physical disorder to mark the occasion

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: [[ExaggeratedTrope Jesus Christ.]] Here's just a small snippet of what [[ElementalPowers elemental mages]] can do: Surf is cast upon short grass, watering it and growing it into the evasion-boosting long grass. The grass is then frozen, turning it into shards of ice that damage anything that walks over that tile. Then, a fire spell melts the ice and leaves behind a puddle of movement-hindering water, which is then frozen to create slippery ice. Grass is also really flammable, letting you coat a large part of the field in fire.

* InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat: Pickups include catnip (which restores mana) and [[HyperactiveMetabolism food, which restores health.]] None of these are unsafe to eat in spite of the fact they're sitting on the floor of a trash-filled alleyway, but at least you can [[AttackablePickup cook the food with fire attacks.]]

* MadBomber: One boss is a rat wearing a pair of CoolShades who wields rat-faced {{Cartoon Bomb}}s with ''VideoGame/Bomberman''-style cross-shaped blasts, and hides under a trash can just before they go off. You can put their wicks out with water... [[SchmuckBait or detonate them sooner with fire.]]

* MadBomber: One boss is a rat wearing a pair of CoolShades who wields rat-faced {{CartoonBomb}}s with ''VideoGame/Bomberman''-style cross-shaped blasts, and hides under a trash can just before they go off. You can put their wicks out with water... [[SchmuckBait or detonate them sooner with fire.]]

* MadBomber: One boss is a rat wearing a pair of CoolShades who wields rat-faced {{CartoonBombs}} with ''VideoGame/Bomberman''-style cross-shaped blasts, and hides under a trash can just before they go off. You can put their wicks out with water... [[SchmuckBait or detonate them sooner with fire.]]

* LipLosses: One enemy is called the Glass Spitter. [[{{Gorn}} Where do you think his ammunition is stored?]]
* MadBomber: One boss is a rat wearing a pair of CoolShades who wields rat-patterned CartoonBombs with ''VideoGame/Bomberman''-style cross-shaped blasts, and hides under a trash can just before they go off. You can put their wicks out with water... [[SchmuckBait or detonate them sooner with fire.]]

* LecherousLicking: One ghost enemy has a large, reddish tongue which it uses for melee attacks. By licking your cat. Really slowly.

* LegoGenetics: The whole premise of the game, really. Updates #6 and #8 shed a little more light on the matter: Each cat in Mew is randomly generated by randomly choosing how the limbs, body shape, tail, head, and fur, along with two eyes, ears, eyebrows, and mouth should look, together with a random location for facial features. Most of these are (relatively) cat-like, but some mutations can give your cats things like webbed feet and ram horns. Any of these characteristics ([[LamarckWasRight including ones gained in life via random event]]) can be randomly passed on to offspring along with mental disorders and a single collarless ability, creating cats who look like their parents and possibly fight like them too.

* ShowWithinAShow: Radio station within a game, rather. The music in the house RaisingSim section comes from [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage an in-universe radio station]], complete with bumpers by Mathias Bossi.

''[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/686060/Mewgenics/ Mewgenics]]'' is a planned-for-2024 {{Roguelike}} slash RaisingSim slash TurnBasedTactics game by Creator/EdmundMcMillen.

* WalkingWasteland: Cats who have depression [[note]]from update #6[[/note]] suffer a huge all-stats down due to their debilitating condition, but their low mood is so pervasive enemies next to them also get debuffed. A depressed tank makes the enemies swarming it easy prey for your faster, mentally healthier cats.

* CharacterLevel: A single cat(the one with the lowest level, or a random one in the event of a tie) levels up once whenever a fight is won. Normally, that's eighteen level-ups, six per chapter, putting a party that survives an adventure at two level 5 cats and two level 6 cats. However, taking the PathOfMostResistance yields one more (far harder) fight and level-up, and having less than four cats means they'll reach higher levels, meaning a theoretical maximum of level 21.

* BlackComedy: [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle You don't say!]] As seen in update #6, having your cats get birth defects as a result of inbreeding or rabies after failing to loot a dead cat's corpse are fleshed-out game mechanics!

* WalkingWasteland: Cats who have depression [[note]]from update #6[[/note]] suffer a huge all-stats down due to their debilitating condition, but their low mood is so pervasive enemies next to them also get debuffed. A depressed tank makes the enemies swarming it easy prey for your faster, mentally healthier cats.

* TurnBasedTactics: Think ''VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown'', but for the Crazy Cat Lady from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* CharacterClassSystem: Described in the third update post are the Fighter, Mage, Cleric, Tank, Thief and Hunter, along with "Collarless" cats who haven't had a class assigned to them yet.

* MightyGlacier: The Tank class of update #3 gets a huge +4 bonus to constitution in exchange for -1 of both dexterity and inteligence, making it both move less and act later. [[SubvertedTrope However,]] Tanks also have access to movement abilities such as Trample ([[DungeonBypass walk right through enemies and the enviroment, dealing damage to them]]) and Toss ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Toss an adjacent thing onto someone else or an empty tile,]] dealing damage to both whoever was thrown and whatever they land on), along with a basic attack that dashes them forward one tile and dealing one tile of KnockBack to the target.

* CompanyCrossReferences: One cursed item described in update #6 is the Child's Skull, which replaces your cat's attack with a very low damage, short range projectile that can be used twice a turn called a tear. [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Now why does that sound familiar..?]]

* SquishyWizard: Assigning a cat the Mage class will increase their inteligence but also decrease their constitution, increasing mana regeneration per turn and decreasing maximum health.