Mewgenics sold over 150K copies in its first few hours of release

Mewgenics, the cat-breeding turn-based roguelite from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, the developers of The Binding of Isaac, is off to a great start. When reviews dropped for the game, it received mostly positive reviews and averaged a score of 89 on OpenCritic. 

The developer announced in an interview with IGN that Mewgenics has sold over 150K copies in the first six hours of release. To be specific, they mentioned it sold around 152,000 copies. That is over 110K more than The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, which sold 40,000 units the day it released. 

“So far this is beating expectations by quite a lot,” developer Tyler Glaiel said. “It’s a bigger launch than any of the Isaac expansions already, and it’s only been a few hours.”

With the success of Mewgenics, sales have already covered the development costs, and there is now a 10% sale happening on Steam for a limited time. At the time of this post, there are over 44,000 concurrent players online, and its all-time peak sits at over 65K.