Updates

This update lets her speak many more languages out loud, makes the game lighter on your graphics card, and fixes several things you told us about.

Windows voices

• New in the Voice panel: switch a character between her own voice and a Windows voice.
• Pick a voice for each language and hear it with one click. A language without a voice shows an Install button: Windows asks for permission and downloads it in a few minutes, no restart needed.
• Languages with no Windows voice keep her own voice.
• If she speaks a language this PC has no voice for, a notice now explains why you only see subtitles and how to add one.

Lighter on your graphics card

• While a character uses a Windows voice, her own voice engine pauses and frees about 0.9 GB of video memory. It starts again by itself when a line needs it.

Lip sync

• Fixed: with Windows voices and her greetings, her lips stayed still for the first part of each sentence.

Conversation

• Ask for another joke or story and she tells a new one instead of repeating the last.
• While her AI is still loading, the chat and Settings show how far along it is.

Songs and panels

• Songs she learns or writes show their lyrics again, and the playback bar shows the song length.
• Asking for a song by its title in quotes works more reliably.
• Fixed: the Settings page could appear empty. Side panels now have a scrollbar.

Your saves and settings are untouched. Tell us in the discussions which language you talk to her in.

Moonrise joins AI Digital Human Studio, eight official voices are free in the Store, and what you buy on our website now reaches the game while it runs.

New character: Moonrise

• $0.99: a new character with long elf ears, her own Jade-Leaf Dress and a range of hairstyles.
• Find her in Store → Characters. Pay with your Steam Wallet, or on allianceinterstellar.com.
• After you buy, she downloads by herself (about 370 MB) and unlocks without a restart. Switch to her from the Characters panel.

8 official voices, free

• Store → Voice: Qingyu, Tangtang and Lanxi (Chinese), Hikari (Japanese), Seoyeon (Korean), Mia, Eleanor and Luna (English).
• Download one, and after a short setup she speaks with it.

Outfits and hairstyles

• Cyan Hanfu and Guofeng Ponytail are now sold one by one, $0.99 each, with your Steam Wallet or on our website. You can try the ponytail on before you buy.
• Already own the Cyan Hanfu DLC? It is still yours, nothing to do.

Buying on our website

• Link your Steam account under My game on allianceinterstellar.com. What you buy there shows up in the running game within a few minutes, with no restart and no need to open the Store.
• Fixed: linking Steam on the website often failed.

Fixes

• Purchases unlock reliably without restarting the game.
• Add-ons you downloaded keep working after future updates.

Your saves and settings are untouched. Tell us in the discussions how you like Moonrise.

This update is about talking to her: in every language the game supports, and as fast as your PC allows.

Voice input in every language

• Built in: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese work right away, as before.
• Multilingual speech recognition: a free download in the store that understands every language of the game. Best with a graphics card, about 1 to 3 seconds per sentence. With an NVIDIA card, the free NVIDIA acceleration makes it about three times faster.
• Quick speech recognition: small free downloads for German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Norwegian and Swedish. Most run on the processor in under a second.
• Voice input language: a new setting. It follows the interface language, or you pick the language you speak.
• If your language needs a download, the game tells you when you turn on the microphone.

Her AI on your PC

• Processor or graphics card: a new choice in Settings. Automatic keeps her AI on the processor unless your graphics card is clearly faster.
• Test which is faster: one button measures both on your own PC, and Automatic follows the result.
• Shortcuts: F8 shows or hides a live CPU, GPU, video memory and RAM meter. F9 switches her AI between processor and graphics card.
• New AI brains: Qwen3.5 9B and Gemma 4 12B for PCs with a large graphics card.

Store

• New tabs: AI brains and Speech recognition, so models and voice packs are easy to find.
• Downloads from the in-game store are checked against your Steam copy of the game.

Fixes

• Bulgarian, Danish, Norwegian and Turkish players no longer get replies in Russian, Swedish or German, and short German and French lines are understood more reliably.
• Qwen3.5 brains no longer stop replying after a long conversation.
• Gemma 4 brains no longer show stray symbols in the middle of a word.
• Photo to face, dance learning and webcam motion now use the same one-time online check as your purchases.

Your saves and settings are untouched. Tell us in the discussions how voice input works in your language.

Thanks to everyone who played the last update and told us what still felt off. This one is about how she talks and how she moves.

Conversations

• No more echoing: she no longer repeats what you just said back to you, or says her previous line again when you reply "ok", "haha" or "mm".
• Short replies like these now keep the conversation going with something new.

How she looks and moves

• Hands stay out of her head: seven shy, thinking and tired gestures where her hand sank into her face or head have been retired for Simei and Ayami.
• Smoother default dress: Simei's default dress uses a lighter cloth simulation while she stands, and full quality when she dances or sings.
• Hairstyle names: the hairstyle list now shows real names in your language instead of internal file names.

Settings and system

• Steady Automatic quality: choosing Automatic again no longer jumps to High first and back to Medium a few seconds later.
• If her voice starts very slowly on your PC, it now restarts itself sooner.
• Paid cosmetics you own keep working offline for much longer.
• The game no longer changes the Windows online speech recognition privacy setting.

Your saves and settings are untouched. If something still feels off, tell us in the discussions.

This update fixes the problems many of you reported after the October updates. Thank you for every report.

Her voice

• No more silence after the greeting: on PCs without the HD voice, she used to say her opening greeting and then nothing. She now speaks with the built-in voice on every PC and uses the HD voice when your graphics card can run it.
• Backup voice: if her AI voice can't run on your PC at all, she now speaks with your Windows system voice instead of staying silent, and tells you so.
• Everything included: songwriting, song and dance learning, photo face sculpting and the HD voice are part of the game again. Nothing extra to download.

Conversations

• Steady reply language: she keeps answering in the language you write in, and short messages like "ok" or "haha" no longer switch it.
• Long messages: pasting a long text no longer leaves her silent. She reads as much as fits and answers.
• If a reply fails or takes unusually long, a short notice now tells you what happened instead of leaving "..." on screen.
• PCs whose processor lacks AVX2 no longer crash when she starts thinking. You get a notice instead.
• Her AI now uses a number of processor threads that suits your PC.

Settings and controls

• New Settings tab: under Graphics quality, pick Automatic, Low, Medium, High or Epic. Lower levels run smoother on mid-range PCs; Automatic chooses for your graphics card.
• Her hands no longer pass through her face during shy or thinking gestures.
• The icons on the right now show their names, and Quick tips point out where things are the first time you play. Show the tips again in Settings brings them back.
• Her outfit stops simulating while she stands still, which keeps the game smoother.

Your saves and settings are untouched. If something still feels off, tell us in the discussions.

This update is all about one thing: making her look like the person in your photo.

Photo face sculpting, rebuilt

• How: open the Face panel, click Choose a photo… under From a photo and pick a clear, front-facing picture. It takes about half a minute.
• Features from the photo: her eyes, nose, mouth and brows now follow the photo.
• Skin from the photo: the photo itself is laid onto her skin, so the brows, lips and skin detail are the person's own. The lighting in the photo is taken out.
• Colours from the photo: hair colour, eye colour and skin tone follow the photo too. The Colours button switches between the photo's colours and her own in one click.
• Face shape stays hers: width, chin and jaw are left to you, so tune them with the sliders below. This also fixes faces that sometimes came out too long.
• Likeness slider: choose how close to the photo she gets.
• All three characters: works with Simei, Ayami and April.
• Private: the photo is analysed on your PC and never uploaded. Front-facing, evenly lit photos work best.
• Photo face sculpting uses the free Song & Motion Learning Pack. If it is not installed yet, the game offers to download it.

Other changes

• Your own skin texture: exported templates now keep their true colours. Before, they came out too dark, so a texture painted over them looked orange in the game. April can now use your own skin texture too.
• Lighting: the studio fill light is brighter, so the shadows on her face look softer.
• Sailor outfit: the collar no longer flickers when she raises her hands.
• Wink: ask her to wink and she will.
• All new interface text is translated into every supported language.

Your saves and settings are untouched. If something feels off, tell us in the discussions.

This update adds touch reactions, lets you chat with her using your own AI model, and gives the interface a new look.

Touch reactions

• Different places, different reactions: pat her head, touch her cheek, take her hand, tap her shoulder, or tickle her tummy or feet. Each has its own lines, expressions and gestures, and she turns to look where you touched her.
• How to touch: when the cursor turns into a hand over her, click once. Dragging still rotates the camera.
• She has limits: keep poking her and she will tell you to stop. She never cuts herself off while she is talking or thinking of a reply.
• Subtitles: what she says when you touch her now appears as a subtitle, in your interface language.

Bring your own AI model

• The store has a new AI models category. Next to the built-in model you can add a GGUF model you downloaded yourself: Llama, Mistral, Phi, Gemma, Qwen, TinyLlama and many community models.
• Pick an Instruct or Chat version; Q4_K_M is a good choice. Models under 4B run smoothly on most PCs, while 7B and 8B models are slower.
• The model runs on your PC, offline. Her replies still go through the built-in conversation filter, and you are responsible for following each model's license.

A fresh new look

• Subtitles: a new caption card shows who is speaking, lights up each word as she says it and shows how far into the sentence she is.
• Panels and icons: the icon bar on the right and every panel now share one style, with smooth hover effects and a new mouse cursor.
• Store: redesigned, and it opens faster.
• Lighting: studio lighting with a dark backdrop is the new default, so her face has more depth. You can still pick another backdrop color.
• Image: no more white glow around her hair in the close-up camera, and less ghosting when you rotate the camera.

Smaller fixes

• Press Enter to send a message.
• Choosing a language in the Language panel now always takes effect right away.
• The help text in the Action panel no longer gets cut off.

Your saves and settings are untouched. If something feels off, tell us in the discussions.

This update is about size. The download is about 411 MB.

• Smaller install: the installed size drops from 21.9 GB to 15.3 GB.
• Unused content removed: old backups, test versions of characters and other files the game never loaded are no longer in the game data.
• Textures: a few skin textures were stored at twice the resolution the game displays. They are now stored at the resolution you actually see, so nothing looks different.
• Voice models: files that the voice models have in common are now stored once instead of three times.

Her conversation, voice, songs, wardrobe and hairstyles are exactly as before, and your saves and settings are untouched. If anything is missing after this update, tell us in the discussions and we will fix it.

A small maintenance update. The download is about 180 MB.

• Smaller install: unused development files were removed from the game data. The installed size drops from 22.3 GB to 21.9 GB.
• Conversation filter: explicit sexual descriptions in her replies are now filtered, in line with the content description on the store page. When that happens she changes the subject with a short line. Flirting and everyday conversation are not affected.
• Debug panel: a few internal development commands no longer respond in the released game.
• New icon: the game has a new icon in your Steam library.

If the filter ever interrupts an ordinary sentence, tell us in the discussions and include the sentence, and we will fix it.

A small fix on top of the major update.

• Fixed: some short English messages (for example "I had a rough day at work." or "No way") were mistaken for Polish, Spanish or Italian. She then answered in that language, and in the Polish case without her voice. English messages are now recognised reliably.
• The download is tiny: about 4 MB.

If she ever answers in the wrong language, tell us in the discussions and include the sentence you typed.

This is the biggest update since launch. Everything that makes her feel alive now runs locally on your PC: the language model, the speech recognition and her voice. No cloud, no account, nothing uploaded.

What's new

• Fully local AI conversation — talk by voice or text and she answers out loud, in ten languages.
• Three companions — Simei, Ayami and April, each with her own face, voice and first language.
• Presence — she notices you when you arrive, has small habits of her own, and speaks first when you go quiet.
• Emotions you can hear and see — her voice and her face change sentence by sentence.
• Songs — she sings, learns songs from your own audio files, and writes songs of her own.
• Make her yours — face sculpting, skin, makeup and eye options, physically simulated hair in any colour, and real-time cloth.

Good to know

• The update is about 15 GB, because the AI models now ship with the game.
• Replies are generated live on your own machine. A faster CPU and GPU make her quicker and smoother.
• Voice input understands English and Chinese. She speaks English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.

Thank you for your patience while we rebuilt her from the ground up. More hairstyles and outfits are on the way.