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Emily is Away

Emily is Away

Kyle Seeley · November 20, 2015 · Free to Play, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Singleplayer, Indie

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About Emily is Away

✦ AI summary

Relive the early 2000s by chatting with classmates through AIM, building a branching romance story with Emily across five years of high school and beyond through your dialogue choices. This narrative adventure captures authentic Windows XP-era nostalgia with buddy lists, away messages, and dial-up sound effects while exploring how your decisions shape a relationship that matters.

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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!

Emily is Away — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
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What Steam players say

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Not recommended Sep 28, 2026
I really like the idea of the gameplay, but I did not enjoy playing it. Emily needs to learn what boundaries and consent are. If you refuse to let her use you as a rebound and reject her advances, she hates you for the rest of the game. What? I understand that there are multiple ways to play, but if you just choose to be platonic, she still tries to force a relationship. It's really uncomfortable. At least the easter egg achievements were neat.
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Recommended Oct 1, 2026
Very sad game, got me in my feels...
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
a cute reminder of why i never got in a relationship
Recommended Sep 29, 2026
OG frutiger aero
Recommended Sep 28, 2026
in this game you text minors
Recommended Sep 28, 2026
Best way I can describe Emily: “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Don’t be like Emily.

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