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Emily is Away

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Recent Reviews:

Very Positive (103) - 92% of the 103 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

All Reviews:

Very Positive (31,713) - 88% of the 31,713 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

20 Nov, 2015

Developer:

Kyle Seeley

Publisher:

Kyle Seeley

Curator Review

Recommended

By -Heckta- 16 April, 2017

“A Free-to-play AOL nostalgia filled experience, a short but an interesting idea of a game.”

Features

Single-player

Steam Achievements

Steam Trading Cards

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔

Includes 20 Steam Achievements

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Title: Emily is Away
Genre: Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Simulation

Developer: Kyle Seeley

Publisher: Kyle Seeley

Franchise: Emily is Away

Release Date: 20 Nov, 2015

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Awards

Indiecade - Digital Selection
Boston FIG - Official Selection

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Reviews

“It's one of those rare games that completely stopped me in my tracks.”
Julie Muncy, Wired

“A story game in which you return to a realm time forgot: AOL Instant Messenger.”
Nathan Grayson, Kotaku

“It reminded me both of Digital: A Love Story and Catholic-guilt-simulator Catherine. Which are not bad games to be compared to.”
Brendan Caldwell, Rock Paper Shotgun

About This Game

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Remember a time before Facebook and Skype? When Windows XP was the next big thing and AIM was king. Relive that era with Emily is Away. Create a screenname and browse buddy infos in this chat-bot meets adventure game. Explore your relationship with Emily, a fellow high school student, in a branching narrative where you choose the outcome. And most importantly, change your text color to lime green so people know you're the coolest kid in school.

Features

Buddy icons, profiles and away messages.
A dialogue decision-based branching narrative.
Over an hour of nostalgia-inducing gameplay.
Five chapters spanning five years of the main characters life.
Computer sounds you hoped to never hear again!

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

Minimum:

OS *: Windows XP Service Pack 2+
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or later
Memory: 512 MB RAM

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Processor: Intel
Memory: 512 MB RAM

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