Emily is Away
Release date: Nov 20, 2015
Developers: Kyle Seeley
Publishers: Kyle Seeley
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Simulation
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards
Supported languages: English

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! 

Press 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