Mewgenics’ voice cast is absolutely huge thanks to a crazy number of camoes

Mewgenics is a game about cats and where the ‘dialogue’ is mostly meows, hisses, and cursed little yowls in the night, you might have thought the creators would have taken some soundbites of the real animal.

This is wildly incorrect, with Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel somehow assembling one of the most stacked voice casts you’ll see all year.

Why are there so many Mewgenics voice actors?

The reason why Mewgenics has so many people lending their best cat impressions is because it is packed with 100+ vocal cameos, pulled from basically every corner of the internet and beyond.

The cameo pool ranges from internet personalities to musicians, voice actors, and even more mainstream names you see on the big screen.

McMillen explained in a dev comment that Mewgenics uses pools of vocal sets recorded by a wide range of people, then cats are assigned a random set that’s pitched up or down, meaning you could be hearing the same cameo voice across “millions” of cats in different variations.

Meowgenics main voice cast

Alongside the cat ‘voices’ are some actual humans with both the creator of the game and a few others providing the voice work for them.

Here’s the list:

• Edmund McMillen – Guppy
• Carl Edge – Jimmy “The Hammer” Valentine
• Danielle McMillen – Lucy
• Matthias Bossi – WMEW 9.99 Host
• Joey Kuras – Zodiac

Meowgenics voice cameos

According to MobyGames, there are a total of 183 cat cameos in Meowgenics, and as previously stated, they come from all corners of the media world.

A few standouts include:

• Creators/streamers: Markiplier, Jerma, MoistCr1tikal, Vsauce, Vinny Vinesauce, Wendigoon, Northernlion
• Film/TV & comedy: Dax Flame, David Harbour, Felicia Day, Bobcat Goldthwait
• Music: Logic, Rivers Cuomo, Tom Cardy
• Games/media: Cliff Bleszinski, Zach Hadel, Jhonen Vasquez, plus a chunk of RedLetterMedia (including Rich Evans and Mike Stoklasa)

Since the game is all about cat creations and pitting them against others, having so many different voices is such a fun addition and keeps you on your toes, trying to guess whose noise is whose.

Dispatch kind of went down this route, too, by adding a few different internet personalities to its pool of voices, and these were super well-received, so it may become more of a trend moving forward.