Emily is Away Too
Choice-driven chat sim about senior-year friendships and relationships
Kyle Seeley · Released May 26, 2017
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 94% of 6,130
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 86% of 23 in 30 days
- Players
- 3
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 5 years ago
- Apr 22, 2021
Metacritic: 81/100 (critic reviews)
What is Emily is Away Too?
A single-player, text-based story set in a 2006-style instant messenger during your senior year of high school. You message Emily and Evelyn, choose replies that shape separate conversations and lead to different endings, and follow links to social profiles and videos.
For you if...
- +you enjoy stories shaped by dialogue choices
- +you like mid-2000s internet culture and desktop details
- +you want a short story with multiple endings
Not for you if...
- −you prefer action to reading chat conversations
- −you dislike high school relationship drama
What players say
94% of 6,130 reviews are positive · 86% of 23 in the last 30 days
Players praise the mid-2000s chat interface, web details, and character writing. Some find the choices too similar or the relationship outcomes arbitrary. A recent player reports broken links, while another reports save trouble on Linux.
How many players finish Emily is Away Too?
54% of Steam players have unlocked «Summer '07», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
Emily is Away Too system requirements
Minimum: 800x600 High Color +, 0.5 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Emily is Away Too?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10
- Processor
- Intel
- Graphics
- 800x600 High Color +
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
Does Emily is Away Too have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Emily is Away Too run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- Cloud saves are not shared across platforms
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 21
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Emily is Away Too use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
