Emily is Away
Kyle Seeley · 2015 · Free to Play, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Singleplayer, Indie
PC
Very Positive89% · 36610playing now
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About Emily is Away
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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
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!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A short and sweet game with the sense of nostalgia when you were chatting with your friends back in 2000s on MSN Messenger during Windows XP days. This game has multiple choices and Emily responds to them differently but ultimately never leads to a majorly different route. There are also some easter eggs references to other games or celebrities or songs, pretty much this game is worth playing given it's free and it's only as much as 1 hour or less of playtime.3 found this helpful
Cute short story with little to no agency for the player. It was fine.
Why is it so real?
Parasocial Relationship sim
Getting friend zoned in my free time. neat game.
A fun, but quick game.
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