(Image credit: Alfred Kamon)

Before founding Studio Daimon as an indie developer, Alfred Kamon started as a Fire Emblem modder in 2012, releasing a ROM hack called FE: Midnight Sun based on the series' GBA pixel-art iterations. Although this later became the basis for his studio's commercial debut, budget and resource limitations meant Path of the Midnight Sun became a visual novel with turn-based battles in the first-person viewpoint of retro RPGs like Dragon Quest .

But the Italian studio's crowdfunded Food Devils, due for release on 3 November on PC via Steam, is the Fire Emblem-style tactics RPG he's always wanted to make.

Beyond the grid-based battles, it's a different take on the genre, not just because it's also a roguelite. You play as the last chef in a post-apocalyptic world, hunting monsters and turning them into tasty dishes for your restaurant.…