Emily is Away

"Emily is Away" is a narrative-driven chat-bot game set in the AOL Instant Messenger era of the early 2000s. Players create a screenname and interact with Emily, a high school friend, through a series of branching dialogues. The game features nostalgic elements such as buddy icons, profiles, and away messages, as well as computer sounds from the time period. It spans five years of the characters' lives with multiple endings decided by the player's dialogue choices.