Emily is Away <3

Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.

Emily is Away <3 is a choices matter, simulation and dating sim game developed and published by Kyle Seeley.
Released on April 16th 2021 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 5,720 reviews of which 5,268 were positive and 452 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 1.63€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Emily is Away <3 into these genres:

Choices Matter Simulation Dating Sim Indie Multiple Endings Casual Story Rich Singleplayer Emotional Cute Visual Novel Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure RPG Conversation Romance Nostalgia 2D Typing Horror

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
Processor: Intel
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 800x600 High Color +
Storage: 100 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.7 or later
Processor: OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 800x600 High Color +
Storage: 100 MB available space

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Gosh, I don't even know what to say, I just want to rant. It's hard for not only a game but a piece of media to be so compelling, so talkative to me. I have to admit I am a bit biased because I'm a sucker for old stuff, specially 00's-10's, but what a game. I've beaten this many times, and it just gets better. These games, and specially the last one embodies youth so well through the simulation of a screen. It's all you can ask from something so simple, yet in my opinion so effective. That damn Moody Rain website? C'mon! Pure gold! There's set pieces in the game meant to trigger your anxiety, to make you doubt yourself and even now as I play this game as an adult, I just can't seem to not bite the bait sometimes. A great example of this is the scene where you 'ditch' Evelyn so you can help Mat, and even though you, Mat, Evelyn and even the game itself knows this is the right thing to do, the last thing you see in that chapter is a secret message Eve made on Steve's wall. As I teenager, I regret not just shutting my mind of off problems completely and just enjoying the moments, specially relationships that I had back then. Today, those problems are such a minor inconvenience, that only served to steer my way out of enjoyment and fun, which those years should all have been about, or should I just say 'enjoying it before it ends'. When something is just too good and you don't want it to end, wether it be a music, a moment or even a person. And I think that's much of the confrontation part. It's okay to be insecure, and even though the game may not answer normally and comprehensive to it, it certainly has its ways of rewarding you for trusting your heart with it. Instead of going the hard way and facing Eve, simply choosing it to let it slide gives exactly what you wanted from the very beginning. Eve says that she loves you for the first time, the guy you were worried adds you and suddenly doesn't seem so bad anymore. Fast-forward to the last chapter, Eve and you are better than ever, and even though she might seem 0,01% 'off', it just comes with it. Teenagery, I mean. College is coming up, you don't know what the future holds both for your relationship and your career, not even if you'll make it to your friends last BBQ before it all ends. And there it is. Uncertainty, written all over it. It's hard growing up, hard to leave those things behind, but looking back and seeing that even though they ended... they happened. Well, I guess [url=https://youtu.be/GemKqzILV4w] whatever happens, happens.

Aug. 2024

Good visual novel that mechanically builds off the first two games and captures the 2008-2009 facebook thematic. Nostalgia for a bygone age, of relationships that never existed. Some of the dialogue options are kind of infuriating, a real "illusion of choice" moment f*ck steve, all my homies hate steve

July 2024

This game made me live through the same events I went through in my teenage years, simultaneously reminding me of how emotionally available I was, while slowly and painfully breaking it down, reminding me that nothing lasts forever. I forgot what teenage emotional trauma was like in 2008. 10/10

July 2024

Kinda in lovee with Emily!x Only just completed chapter 4, i stg if this girl breaks my heart. p.s Jeff is a knob.

Jan. 2024

[It's a tentative yes, it's only really a yes if you already think it's going to be your thing, I have a lot of criticisms of it] Emily is Away <3 feels like it's telling the same story for the 3rd time in a way that just feels old at this point. The emotional beats hit and are written with the same down to earth feel they always do but god, how many times do we need the story of having a gf in highschool who no matter what you do will leave you before you go to college. From a presentation perspective though, the game is gorgeous, it nails the early Facebook feel, and getting to stalk and wander through people's pages and photos is such fun - as is listening to the curated 2000s playlist, they add a really nice touch and feel to the game, especially when playing them in the background of general messaging. If anything I'd have liked more to mess around with and find on the various Facebook pages but I realise at a point that takes away from the story. Speaking of the story, there are two major things that bug me about it. First off, you get locked into a route real fast and there's very little room to breathe in the paths, for example, I was more interested in Evelyn than Emily but making the decision to not ditch a friend to go to a party locked me onto Emily's route super early on. I realise that this was supposed to be a "pick ur gf" binary choice, but it felt poor that there was no wiggle room esp since from my perspective I chose Emily's option because it was pre-organised and I didn't wanna be a dick. But yeah no matter how hard you try to friendzone Emily afterwards you physically cannot not date her after making the choice to play Mario Kart with her one time, love that for me. The other issue is probably more contentious? But basically it sort of bothered me how the game acted as though the mc could be any gender. For context I'm a girl-ish and I'm queer so upon getting the profile picture options I chose one of the more femme looking characters and went into the story with the mindset that I was playing a girl. And just- the story is so clearly about an mc who's a guy, I don't quite know how to articulate it but it's such a straight guy story, which isn't a problem inherently but I kinda wish like the earlier ones I'd gone into it with that mindset in advance and only ever considered my character a boy. Like just none of what happens feels like it would happen to a wlw person in 2006. Like idk maybe there's someone out there who has had this experience but it just felt weirdly performative to give you a choice of gender presentation and then tell a story that was so clearly meant for one specific kind of lead character. But yeah, ignoring the negativity expressed above, I still had fun with the game, if you think it'll interest you it probably will, the facebook aspect is well done and I don't regret playing it - the story aspects just left a lot to be desired for me personally.

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Steam reviews	22 December 2024 04:03

-80% 8.19€ 1.63€

8.9

5,268

452

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Developer

Kyle Seeley

Publisher

Kyle Seeley

Release 16 Apr 2021

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