diff --git a/testament/categories.nim b/testament/categories.nim
index 568a134407..d23f3384ef 100644
--- a/testament/categories.nim
+++ b/testament/categories.nim
@@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ proc testNimblePackages(r: var TResults, cat: Category, filter: PackageFilter) =
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-const AdditionalCategories = ["debugger", "examples", "lib", "megatest"]
+const AdditionalCategories = ["debugger", "examples", "lib"]
+#, "megatest"]
 
 proc `&.?`(a, b: string): string =
   # candidate for the stdlib?
diff --git a/testament/tester.nim b/testament/tester.nim
index 368c5da6f3..29733e45cc 100644
--- a/testament/tester.nim
+++ b/testament/tester.nim
@@ -536,6 +536,8 @@ proc main() =
   var r = initResults()
   case action
   of "all":
+    processCategory(r, Category"megatest", p.cmdLineRest.string, testsDir, runJoinableTests = false)
+
     var myself = quoteShell(findExe("testament" / "tester"))
     if targetsStr.len > 0:
       myself &= " " & quoteShell("--targets:" & targetsStr)