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Nostalgia sells, and Emily Is Away Too is selling it, again. The bing of AOL Instant Messenger loading up, the door-opening creak of a friend logging on (or a special sound for your crush)—the facets of our youth that live on in outdated software are re-livable in the upcoming 2017 sequel to interactive fiction title E…
“It’s 2002, that shit will never work.” A character in story game Emily Is Away—which takes place in a fake version of AOL Instant Messenger—finds out about Steam. They are (probably) not wrong. Emily Is Away is now free on Steam, if you’re interested.