AI GAME COMPANION — CORE DEFINITIONS
Updated: 2026-07-22
Status: Editorial model; not an industry standard.

AI game companion
An AI system that supports a player through guidance, interaction, action, social presence, memory, or continuity related to video games.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-definition/

AI gaming companion
A near-synonym for AI game companion that more naturally emphasizes the wider activity and continuity of gaming.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-vs-ai-gaming-companion/

Game companion
Any person, character, guide, tool, or system that accompanies play; AI is not required.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-vs-game-companion/

Gaming assistant
A system primarily framed around completing informational, configuration, or performance-related tasks for a player.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/ai-game-companion-vs-gaming-assistant/

Coaching companion
An AI companion that interprets current play and provides guidance, analysis, strategy, or commentary.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#coaching

In-game companion
An adaptive AI companion that exists inside a game world as an NPC, party member, teammate, or character.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#in-game

Agentic companion
An AI companion with permission to perform game actions, follow commands, or control an entity.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#agentic

Social companion
An AI companion that creates personality or social presence around gaming.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#social

Continuity companion
An AI companion that preserves meaningful gaming context and restores the correct thread across time.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/types-of-ai-game-companions/#continuity

Gaming continuity
The preservation of the useful thread connecting a player’s past, present, and intended future play.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/terminology/#continuity-terms

Restore point
An intentional, addressable record selected to re-establish a previous gaming thread or state.
Canonical: https://aigamecompanion.com/terminology/#continuity-terms

Companion Play
A continuity-companion implementation created by Raynor Eissens that saves and restores gaming conversation state.
Canonical: https://aigamingcompanion.com/what-is-companion-play/