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About An Aspie Life
An Aspie Life is an experimental adventure game about living with autism. After your roommate leaves without explanation, you face the outside world alone. The game adapts its actions and interactions to the main character’s way of perceiving things, using its sound, graphics and systems to represent aspects of that experience.
Social interactions
Most characters appear as black outlines, making their body language difficult to read. Some people the main character knows well have more detail, though they remain darkened, reflecting how familiarity can make their body language easier to learn. Conversations also give you a limited vocabulary and require you to work out how to respond.
Stress, happiness, courage and uneasiness affect how conversations play out. For example, when the main character has little courage, they cannot look at the other person.
Sound and feelings
Environmental sounds appear on a sound-sensitivity meter, which you must keep under control to prevent the main character from becoming overwhelmed. You can restore the feeling meters by going somewhere quiet or doing something the character enjoys, such as playing video games.
Art and color
The blue-and-purple art style reflects the game's 80s and 90s feel and social isolation. Items that are especially important to the main character appear in full color instead.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. An Aspie Life is free to play on Steam, so there is nothing to buy to start playing.
The minimum requirements for An Aspie Life are: Windows Vista, Intel Pentium, 4 GB RAM, 1 GB storage. It runs on Windows only. The recommended specs are in the System requirements section.
No. An Aspie Life is a single-player game.
Mostly, yes. Valve rates An Aspie Life as Playable on the Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual setup.
Yes. An Aspie Life is the full base game. You need nothing else to play it.
