It's pretty commonplace nowadays in gaming for fans to wait an inordinate amount of time for release, given how lengthy development cycles are getting. And while Hollow Knight: Silksong's seven-year wait might sound like a lot, it's pretty tame compared to the most extreme examples. Just look at Mewgenics, the hotly anticipated Edmund McMillen roguelike RPG all about breeding cats, which was announced 13 years ago. It only got its release date today.
Team Fortress fans have been waiting 18 years for a sequel, but one appears to be on the way.
As reported by Eurogamer, McMillen shared a 50-minute gameplay reveal yesterday on his personal YouTube channel, in which he announced that the game will finally launch on February 10, 2026. While, in Team Cherry's case, the long wait was simply because Ari Gibson and the studio were brimming with ideas, and had to physically pull themselves back from their desktops to stop adding new features to the game, things are a little more complex for Mewgenics.
Announced in 2012 after the enormous success of Super Meat Boy, it was described as "the strangest project" McMillen had ever worked on, but it was cancelled as he shifted...
