Emily is Away on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Emily is Away is a free to play, story rich and singleplayer game
developed and published by Kyle Seeley.
Released on November 20th 2015 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 31,896 reviews of which 28,260 were positive and 3,636 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is free to play on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP Service Pack 2+
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or later
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6 or later
- Processor: Intel
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
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The game is about you having a crush on a girl from your high school and chatting with her. The game puts you in 3 years of the character's life where he chats with his crush Emily. It's kind of fun. You say something, then she replies, then you have to reply and it goes on. Each time you have to reply, you will have three choices of what to say. So you have a few options and it won't be like watching a premade tv show. Picking what to say is not all you have to do. You have to type it too. Well, not quite by yourself. There is a premade sentence for each choice. When you start hitting your keyboard buttons and try to type something, the letters began to be placed one by one. So you can either try to guess what your reply choice will say and try to type that, or simply just spam one button until the sentence is complete. Whichever type you are. It's kinda fun but also saddening and stuff. Just like a real crush. If you don't want to go through the pain of having a crush on someone, don't play this. If you do want to, then play it. It only took me 0.9 hours to finish it (I started button spamming in the second half of the game). 0.9 hours isn't very much so you won't lose anything. Specially since it's free to play. If you're a guy, you can play this. If you're a girl, I don't see the point. If you're a lesbian girl, yeah play and have fun. If you're a shemale, well then I'll be confused to advise whether to play or not so it's up to you. Heheh, just kidding. I'd give the game 7/10 I think. Made me relive some bad memories of when I had a crush on a girl and f**k did that hurt! ---Spoiler---Read at your own risk--- No matter what choices you make, how you behave and what personality you will have, you will end up with one ending. I tried it myself.
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Notice: This review is based on my personal experience, which is very similar to the story of the game. Call it a semi-spoiler. With that said, those with intentions of playing the game without being spoiled, please look elsewhere. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used to have a lot of friends back in high school. And there was this one person with whom I never spoke too much. After graduation, she left for the US. We were able to get in contact with each other through social media, though. I think I struck a conversation with her first, and that's when our friendship started to blossom. A few days in, we start to talk about almost everything, being all nice to each other and stuff. We speak about what school was like. Just sharing memories. A few weeks in, mid-2012, and we talk to each other non-stop. We tend to stay up late for each other. Sometimes, we'd ask each other stupid questions just to keep the conversation going, because it was fun. A few months in, end of 2012 to early 2013, and we have practically found solace in each other, and talk to get away from things. We share info on our problems. We complain to each other. We debate on things. And there are many times when she felt like she wanted to come back here to meet everyone again. This was the closest I've been with a person online. It's about mid-2014, and we've run out of things to talk about. She talks about how she doesn't feel too alone anymore. and how she's making new friends now and then. And I say that I'm really happy for her. She sells cupcakes, and goes out with her friends once a while. It's 2015 ... I send her a sort of petition to sign, but it was just a desperate attempt to try to resuscitate our excessively engaging conversations again. It didn't work, ended up talking about college again. It felt like talking to her the first time all over again. 2017... and counting ... I haven't spoken to her since then ... and it doesn't feel like we're friends anymore. Although I am a stranger to the nostalgic visualization that the game represents to those who are familiar with AOL Instant Messaging (as I have clearly never used it), Emily is Away nails this emotional aspect of my life so hard, it made me think of the times when I actually had a lot of fun talking to my friend. The fact that I can't have that back again makes it all the more hurtful. And all the more reason to give it a try, so you could appreciate what you had while it lasted. This game, in short, is a reminder that all good things will always come to an end. And I feel fucking horrible about it.
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this game easy game was made to kill time simply click on the clave I advise those who do not want to take the long game extract achievements easy
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Love the RPG/FPS elements, really love the fluent combat as well.... No but actually I did really enjoy this game it's good for like a 30 minute to 1 hour time waster and is a cool and pretty interesting story (Even though it's a tad generic). My only draw back for the game was that sadly their wasn't another ending. I defifnitely recommend it, especially if you want a cool nostalgic experience or just a a time waster for an hour. And it's also free to play, so I would defitely try it out.
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Spend 40 minutes to collect all achievments :D But i dont like Emilly after all that. Collectin John Ceena Ahcievment make me really funny :D Good game 4fun :) Try it
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Frequently Asked Questions
Emily is Away is free to play on Steam.
Emily is Away is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.
Emily is Away received 28,260 positive votes out of a total of 31,896 achieving a rating of 8.69.
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Emily is Away was developed and published by Kyle Seeley.
Emily is Away is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Emily is Away is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Emily is Away is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Emily is Away is a single-player game.
Emily is Away does not currently offer any DLC.
Emily is Away does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Emily is Away does not support Steam Remote Play.
Emily is Away does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Emily is Away.
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16
Developer
Kyle Seeley
Publisher
Kyle Seeley
Release
20 Nov 2015
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