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About This Software

A little company. A lot of control.

A familiar face on your desktop. A conversation while you play. Someone who remembers the interview you were nervous about and asks how it went.

Asiden is a talking AI desktop companion with personality, memory and optional screen awareness. Chat by text or microphone, play a game together, or let your companion watch along and comment as you play your own games. You choose when they can see your screen and how often they speak, whether you want lively company or a quieter presence while you get on with your day.

Buy once for local AI on compatible hardware. No per-message charges for local use. Optional cloud features cost extra.

Find your kind of company

Meet Mika, Lily and Sasha in expressive Live2D, alongside Asiden's included 3D companions.

• Mika: cheeky, curious and playful, with a caring side beneath the occasional pout.
  
• Lily: gentle, warm and encouraging, with plenty of room for excitement.
  
• Sasha: sharp, teasing and a little smug. Expect a comeback.

Choose a companion, create your own personality, or import a compatible VRM avatar. Your choice of appearance, personality and memories are distinct: changing a look does not mean starting your memories again. Mika's signature personality belongs to her Live2D model; her look can also be used with another personality.

Remembers what matters. You stay in control.

Your interests, the people in your life, something you were looking forward to: your companion can bring relevant details back into conversation without you repeating the whole story.

Open Memory to see the saved notes. Edit a mistake, update something that has changed, or delete an entry you do not want kept. Things you have told your companion are shown separately from things they have inferred. AI can get things wrong; the saved entries shown here are yours to review and correct.

A little friendly competition

Play Secret Guest, Asiden's first built-in companion game. Pick a secret face, ask about visible traits and narrow down the board before your companion guesses yours.

Watch the cards go down as you play, trade a little banter between turns, and return later to finish the same game. Its conversation stays with the game, separate from your everyday chat.

Make conversation fit your day

• Short replies or longer conversations: adjust how much room your companion has to respond.
  
• Quiet company or a chatty companion: choose how often they speak first, or use Quiet Mode to stop proactive conversation.
  
• A voice and a face: hear spoken replies with expressive character movement, or keep things text-only.
  
• Your desktop, your style: customise appearance, window colour, transparency and text size.

Pause when you need to step away: conversation, speech, microphone input and proactive screen activity stop together.

Share what you are looking at

Ask about something on your screen, allow occasional glances, or draw a box around one area to discuss. Screen awareness is optional, with controls for when and where your companion looks.

For supported games, download knowledge packs to give conversations more context about their worlds, mechanics and terminology. Packs are stored locally after download.

Local AI included. Cloud is your choice.

Run chat, voice, speech recognition, screen vision and memory on compatible hardware. After initial setup and the required model downloads, installed local features can work with Steam in Offline Mode. No separate Asiden account is required for local use. Local conversations and memories stay on your PC.

Optional cloud chat, vision and voices use prepaid Sparks through Steam Wallet. No subscription, automatic renewal or automatic top-up. No separate provider account or API key is needed. Cloud requests require an internet connection and send the context needed for your chosen feature. Usage varies by model, feature and request size; check prices, balance and spending in Sparks & Usage. When your balance cannot cover a cloud request, local features remain available.

ElevenLabs cloud voices also have a separate Early Access allowance of 30,000 text characters per month; buying Sparks does not increase that allowance. Buying Sparks does not enable screen capture or change your selected models.

Still growing, with boundaries built in

Asiden is in active development. Conversations are AI-generated and can be inaccurate or unpredictable. Safety rules apply across every personality, including filters for explicit sexual content and a local image-safety check before optional cloud vision. Safeguards cannot guarantee every response will be appropriate.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Asiden uses generative AI to create companion conversations, custom personality text and spoken responses during use. When screen awareness is enabled, AI can interpret screen content to inform its responses. Local AI features run on your computer. Optional cloud features send the information needed for the selected feature through Asiden’s managed service to external AI providers. Generated responses may be inaccurate and can include mature language, humour and non-explicit flirtation.

Connects to 3rd-Party Service for AI Content Generation: Asiden.ai

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Asiden features AI-generated text and spoken conversations that may include strong language, crude or dark humour, non-explicit flirtation, sexual innuendo and adult relationship themes. Depending on the conversation, sensitive subjects may be discussed, including violence, substance use, grief, mental-health difficulties, abuse, suicide and self-harm. These themes arise in dialogue rather than a fixed story. Asiden is not designed to generate explicit sexual content. Safeguards aim to restrict prohibited sexual content and harmful responses, but AI-generated conversations can be unpredictable.