Sunset Over Imdahl

Sunset Over Imdahl is an RPG Maker Game by Theo Mathlein. It was released in both English and a (more or less complete) German translation. The story is about a boy named Lohn who, being the last survivor of The Plague, gets the chance to travel back to the beginning of the year in order to stop it from spreading.

The English version can be downloaded here.


 * Drinking Contest: Deconstructed. Even if Lohn wins the contest, his light body weight causes him to pass out just outside the inn, and his winnings are stolen.
 * Dub Name Change: Averted, since the main protagonist is still called Lohn in the German translation, where Lohn means salary.
 * Everybody's Dead, Dave: How the game begins.
 * Fantasy Gun Control: The invading army has guns, but Imdahl still relies on swords and bows, and Hoess carries a sword himself.
 * Heel Face Turn: Hoess, officer of the enemies besieging Imdahl.
 * Jerkass: Andrea, even before The Plague starts.
 * Kick the Dog: Technically,.
 * I Did What I Had to Do:
 * I Need a Freaking Drink: Hoess assumes this is the case when he finds Lohn after the drinking contest. Lohn doesn't bother to correct him.
 * Kid Hero: Lohn.
 * Jump Scare: You will get one if you try to get into into the Developer's Room via RPG Maker.
 * Low Fantasy: Fits seven of the nine items on the checklist on that page, and barely avoids the last--it's a useless war to keep a crumbling empire together, and sorcery is barely present, let alone good or evil.
 * Mini Game: Rat-catching, bat-catching, the above-mentioned Drinking Contest, and finally
 * New Game+: If you picked up a certain key near the end of the game, you keep it for the next playthrough.You can use it on the door to the upper left of the statue in spring to
 * Shoot the Dog: Hoess's suggestion to Lohn--find whoever brought the plague to Imdahl, and kill her.
 * Snow Means Death
 * Talk to Everyone: Hoess's advice to Lohn. It's a particularly cruel example, given that
 * Time Travel: The portal Hoess creates goes to each of the four seasons of the year.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Lohn's badly psychologically damaged, and other people pick up on it.
 * Vestigial Empire: Lohn's prediction on what will happen to the empire from which Imdahl seceded.
 * You Are Already Dead: Hoess uses variants of the phrase twice, though he puts a time-travel spin on it.
 * Vestigial Empire: Lohn's prediction on what will happen to the empire from which Imdahl seceded.
 * You Are Already Dead: Hoess uses variants of the phrase twice, though he puts a time-travel spin on it.
 * You Are Already Dead: Hoess uses variants of the phrase twice, though he puts a time-travel spin on it.