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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.

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Developer
Kyle Seeley
Publisher
Kyle Seeley
Release
November 20, 2015
10 years and 258 days ago
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Very Positive32,315 reviews88.6%

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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!
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