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The Besties

Mewgenics is a Meow-sterpiece

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How do we celebrate a new release from one of the most acclaimed indie game designers of all time? With Ron Funches, of course! The fifth Besty joins us to chat about Mewgenics, a tactics-RPG about cats, breeding, hoarding, and well… eugenics. Plus, Ron shares what it was like to approach his time on Traitors as a gamer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is there a letter in video game history that has carried the weight of the world more than the M at the beginning of the video game title that we are discussing today?

0:14.8

It's a tough game to talk about because you really need to hit that M so hard, or else it sounds like you are providing a sort of

0:23.9

full-throated endorsement for sort of genetic exclusion as a kind of like philosophical policy.

0:33.8

You're trying to say that eugenics, the video game wouldn't sell.

0:37.7

Yeah, no.

0:38.7

Well.

0:39.0

Depends on the region.

0:40.8

It depends where, what audience you're talking about.

0:44.4

What a country.

0:47.4

You just really muigenics, because otherwise you could sound like you're like a snobby

0:53.7

person who's like, I've been playing, um, eugenics, Because otherwise you could sound like you're like a snobby person who's like,

0:54.5

I've been playing Muginix.

0:56.5

And that's still not good enough.

0:58.8

That is how you sound all the time, Griffin.

1:01.7

Yeah, I know.

1:02.3

That's why today I'm going to be calling it the kitty cat game.

1:05.8

People are calling it Baldur's Gato, which I think is spectacular.

1:10.7

I do like that real good my name My name is Griffin MacRoy and I know the best game of the week.

1:34.0

My name is Christopher Thomas Plant and I know the best game of the week.

1:37.2

My name is Russ Frasic. I know the best game of the week.

1:40.7

My name is Ron Funches.

1:43.4

And I know the best game of the week.

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