
I love this game even more because it actually allows you to get the characters to actually fall in love with you as opposed to just getting rejected you no matter what. But if you start to align your interests with theirs simultaneously they will both reject you on the grounds of you being shallow. The two characters had different goals and ideas but the whole goal was to match your interests with yours so they would fall in love with you.

Then two years later, its sequel came out – Emily is Away Too – and introduced having not one but two dateable characters, those being Emily and Everly. Alright, that’s kind of a lie, but you get what I mean, there are plenty of stories that get me to feel things but Emily Is Away is certainly one of the titles to do that. It was exceedingly well written and honestly, made me feel something, which is something I rarely do when it comes to fiction. I loved how the first game forced you into a doom scenario where Emily was going to reject you no matter your choice, and your only real choice of winning the game was rejecting Emily first.

The game was primarily played through a simulation of various online forums that were seen quite prominently in the early 2000s.Īnd when I saw these various YouTubers play it I wanted to play it for myself, and I loved the first game. The goal of this series was to get Emily to fall in love with you. And one of the games that were played quite frequently was a little indie title known as Emily is Away.

Who are these people you may ask, in case you’re not really invested in the whole gamers on YouTube thing? Essentially they’re just video game players that stream various game titles on Steam on their game channel on YouTube. When I was a youngling, used to watch YouTube quite a bit particularly popular YouTubers.

Oh boy, this is going to be quite something.
