Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales

A little bit of good news - Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is a clear hit, with it recently hitting a big sales milestone. See also: my review of the game on Linux.

Mewgenics managed to reach half a million sales in 36 hours (Bluesky), and has as of February 17th crossed over the one million mark (Bluesky). And while some may groan at me for looking at player numbers for a single-player game, I still find it quite interesting in terms of the clear success with it seeing a 24 hour peak of 97,151 people breeding cats in it.

While they no doubt knew it was going to do reasonably well, given their history creating the likes of The Binding of Isaac and The End Is Nigh, they perhaps didn't see it going quite as well as it has done. As noted by Glaiel on Bluesky:

Nice to see smaller teams able to do so well (especially with it being in development for so long), and with competition being hot with so many thousands of games getting released all the time. And, if Unity stick by their plan anyone will be able to prompt a game into existence eventually. So competition is only going to get even more fierce for game developers.