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Emily is Away

Emily is Away cover art
Developer
Kyle Seeley
Released
Nov 20, 2015
Steam reviews
89% of players recommend it, from 32,337 reviews — Steam calls that “Very Positive”
Tags
AdventureCasualFree To Play
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About this game

The developer's description, from the game's Steam store page.

Sign In again. 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

As Steam lists them.

Windows

Minimum

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

Minimum

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

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