Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- Linux · PC · Mac
- Mode
- Single player
The story
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, an interactive story. 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.
- Romance
- retro
- interactive fiction
- dating
- choose your own adventure
- freeware
- story rich
- text adventure
- simulated operating system
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Rating
- 67 / 100 · 150 players
- Developer
- Kyle Seeley
- Publisher
- Kyle Seeley
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
