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Away - Full Text Transcript; Walkthrough; 100% Achievements Guide
By Tanjently
This guide provides a full text transcript of the game Away. Additionally, because the game is mainly text-based, this guide consequently also provides (i) a walkthrough and (ii) an explanation of how to earn the game’s single achievement.
   
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Summary
The purpose of this guide is twofold:
  1. The first purpose of this guide is to provide a full text transcript of the game's script (or, walkthrough). Although the game is fully subtitled and voiced-over, I nonetheless created this guide because I found that having the full transcript written out to reference while writing about the game or discussing it with friends was more convenient than constantly replaying the game to locate either the relative timing of a statement or exact wording of a quote. As such, I typed out the entire script here for fellow players to reference for forming critiques, writing reviews, or just satisfying their own curiosity.

  2. The second purpose of this guide is to explain how to obtain the single achievement in the game.
Full Text Transcript / Walkthrough
Introduction (For Those Using the Transcript as a Walkthrough)

A note on gameplay mechanics: After clicking "Play," you'll see a screen with a white light in the middle. Then, a narrator will start to speak a phrase, which is subtitled at the bottom of the screen (see Screenshot 1, below). Once the narrator finishes his sentence, there's a brief moment of silence, after which the words "*go to the light*" appear (see Screenshot 2, below). Click on those words. The game will then progress to the next narrated text portion (followed by you clicking "*go to the light*," and so on), until you click the final "*go to the light*" text. At that point, the white light in the center of your screen will expand to fill the entire screen, ending the game and transitioning to rolling the credits.

Screenshot 1: Subtitle of Narrator's Spoken Phrase


Screenshot 2: "*go to the light*"


Transcript

"Life teaches a long and difficult lesson, but the main exam lies ahead.

*go to the light*

Awareness comes too late and only when time remains quite a bit, only then you do understand how much was wasted in vain.

*go to the light*

Funny and sad. The main obstacle in our path is our own insecurity and fear, after all.

*go to the light*

The goal of life can be the search of the goal. It’s a pity that we prefer to look for what we want alone.

*go to the light*

Life is a constant movement. Death does not ask for anything in return.

*go to the light*

If I’d have a chance to change everything...It’s too late. The course of time can’t be reversed.

*go to the light*

My path is over, but you still have a chance to change something in your life. There is still time.

*go to the light*"
Achievement


Achievement: Shine

Instructions:
  • Reach the end

  • After clicking the last “*go to the light*” text (which follows the statement “My path is over, but you still have a chance to change something in your life. There is still time.”), you’ll see (1) the white light in the center of your screen expand to fill the entire screen, then (2) the transition to rolling the credits. During this time, you will earn this Achievement. Congratulations!