Another Eden Begins Recruitable Characters

Another Eden Begins builds its cast around a specific number, and the studio states it outright: 18 companions. What makes that figure worth a page of its own is how those characters arrive — not through a single recruitment system, but through three different quest types that unlock at different depths of relationship. This page covers the official count, how the three quest types differ, and which parts of the cast are sold as separate character packs.

The count, and where it comes from

The Steam store description is the source for the roster size, and it is specific: "During his adventure across time, Aldo encounters 18 characters with differing backgrounds and talents." The official Studio Prisma site describes the same set of systems in Japanese, covering encounter quests, character quests and kinship quests.

Eighteen is worth pinning down because it is the number that feeds everything else in the game — the endings branch off your relationships and choices, so the cast is not a collection side-system but the input to the story's variance.

Official screenshot, © WRIGHT FLYER STUDIOS.

Three quest types, three depths

This is the part most players get wrong when planning a run: recruitment is not one mechanic. The store text names three, and the third is gated differently from the first two.

Quest type	What it is	How it unlocks
Encounter quests	The first meeting with a companion	Story progression
Character quests	The standard way to learn a character's background	Recruiting that character
Kinship quests	The deepest tier of a character's story	"Forging deep connections with them"

The distinction that matters is between the last two rows. Character quests are about who the character is; kinship quests are about how close you have become, and the store text is explicit that they become available "by forging deep connections". That means kinship content sits behind relationship progress rather than story progress — you cannot rush it by advancing the plot, and on a New Game+ run you are carrying the relationships you built.

What carries across playthroughs

The roster is persistent. The store description says that in New Game+ you "start a new adventure with your characters as they were", adding that all of the characters retain their strength for the new journey. Practically, that means the 18-strong cast is assembled once and then reused, which is what makes the ten-plus ending structure workable — the branching is in your choices, not in rebuilding a party from scratch each time.

Character packs are separate

Not every character arrives through play. The Steam listing carries several DLC entries alongside the base game, and the studio's own materials reference Character Pack Vol. 1, named after Thillelille and Tiramisu, with a release date given separately from the base game's. So when you see a cast count quoted, the base roster and the paid additions are two different lists — our price and editions page covers what the paid content contains.

Official screenshot, © WRIGHT FLYER STUDIOS.

Where to go next

If you are mapping the cast to story outcomes, endings covers how the branching works and how many there are. For the party-building side of those 18 characters, party covers team composition, and what is Another Eden Begins explains how this game relates to the original Another Eden if you are coming in fresh.