Organ Grinder

The Organ Grinder is a passive NPC who softens the blow of failed runs — no player interaction required. When your cats die in battle, he automatically retrieves their remains and recovers a portion of that run's coins, food, and items; at base level, you get to choose one of these. He levels up on his own as more cats die across your adventures, gradually increasing how much he can salvage from each defeat. According to his own grim account, he lives and dies in the Boneyard — animated only by the maggots and worms filling in for his inactive muscles, likely the same mechanism behind most of Mewgenics' undead enemies. His design was inspired by early character concepts for Ash from Edmund McMillen's The End Is Nigh. Uniquely, the Organ Grinder displays your Steam username as his in-game name.