Games like Emily is Away
If Emily is Away is your kind of game, the closest matches are Over The Phone, Sailors of Newport and Between the Lines — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and melancholic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Emily is Away is a free-to-play indie narrative adventure released in 2015 that simulates mid-2000s instant messaging interfaces. Players create a screenname and navigate conversations with Emily across several years, with branching dialogue choices that determine the trajectory of a friendship. The game incorporates mechanics including forced message deletion, progressive relationship decay, and time-progression, creating an experience where players type real emotions only to delete them before sending. Reviewers highlight how it authentically captures early internet culture and forces players to confront unspoken feelings through the act of typing and deleting emotions. Players describe it as atmospheric and melancholic. The game holds an 87% positive rating from over 22,000 Steam reviews.
About Emily is Away: Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
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Over The Phone
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Top pick for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Emily is Away.
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
Sailors of Newport
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Second-strongest match for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
Between the Lines
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Third-strongest match for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Emily is Away.
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Yonder World: Interview with the Void
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Ranked #4 for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Emily is Away.
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Pick My Heart Chapter 1
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Ranked #5 for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Fall in love… with a goddess?! In this visual novel divinely beautiful girls will steal your heart!
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Ranked #6 for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Emily is Away <3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Ranked #7 for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
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 Too
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Ranked #8 for Emily is Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
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To the Moon
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Reviewers of Emily is Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
The Stanley Parable
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Reviewers of Emily is Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Pony Island
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Reviewers of Emily is Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Emily is Away.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
Telling Lies
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Emily is Away.
Reviewers of Emily is Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Tale of REN ~ [Searching for HEART droplets] ~
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Reviewers of Emily is Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
I am Mizu Ren Nanami... As a resident of the land of Ren, the time has come for me to embark on a mission to win the hearts of the people in Rostania, the city to which I’ve been assigned. Here, I’ll uncover secrets I never knew existed.
Unfriend
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Reviewers of Emily is Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Emily is Away.
In a lighthearted, cartoony couch game, create custom trivia scenarios where your own media—photos, drawings, and words—are the stars of the show. Answer with your funniest quotes to earn votes, win the game, and hopefully keep your friendships intact along the way.
![Tale of REN ~ [Searching for HEART droplets] ~ — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2286070/96262d33322ad8b217d2c081d8201e0aa5ecad29/header.jpg?t=1775513918)
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Frequently asked about Emily is Away
- Is Emily is Away free to play?
- Yes — Emily is Away is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Emily is Away?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Emily is Away are Over The Phone, Sailors of Newport, Between the Lines.
- Who developed Emily is Away?
- Emily is Away was developed by Kyle Seeley.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Emily is Away.
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