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The Store-page of the that game, clearly says that English is not supported.
Chinese title that is spread on the NA market ?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences
Still shows on the storefront for me even with said language preferences set. I've noticed this on a couple other occasions too. From my experiences it's only occurring if they reach the point they are high on the 'top seller' list.
now explain to me why i'm seeing non english title in store?
For Steam, stocking 1000 or 10000 games makes little difference. Just accept that, and simply don't buy games that you don't want to play, instead of demanding that Steam takes them out of the store.
In fact, a lot of people can deal with "non-english" games, at least some of them. While I don't speak (or read) Chinese, I do both speak and read German -- it might be the same to you, but I could certainly play a German-only game because of that.
China is a bigger market, though, so I doubt there are a lot of German-only games on Steam.
so many = below 50.
selective objective impression, change behavior to "ignore it"
Well, we can look at some numbers. Let's start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
In this list, Mandarin is on rank 1, followed by Spanish, followed by English. As such, by native speakers, your English might only be rank 3.
However, I usually prefer stuff in English even though I'm German, simply because German productions are few and far between, and using the original language -- if I can deal with it -- means no loss in translation, no "alternate" voice actors that are only chosen by asking price etc.
So, let's look at this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
In this list, English does top Mandarin due to a massive number of "L2" speakers. However, this is a close...-ish call: 1.121 billion for English vs 1.107 billion for Mandarin. 3rd place is Hindi with 534.2 million, so there's a definite gap.
However, even with non-native speakers taken into account, Mandarin still appears to be a significant language.
chinese-language games with no english support is intended for china/chinese players.
It's not ridiculous. And actually makes perfect sense. Why? Many people worldwide travel to and end up living in other countries where they don't even speak the native language of that country. I live in New York City and there's tons of people here from many different backgrounds that don't speak a word of English....and they have been living here for years.. and some even decades. You'd figure since they have been here for so long that they would learned the English language, but nope. Many of those people listen to English music, watch English TV shows and movies and still enjoy them even though they are clueless as to what is being said most of the time. AND, they many of them also play video games in English and find it quite fun. You can bet that if the games that they are enjoying are available in the language that they speak, they would go for that instead of the English version without question. This is why you are seeing games that are not in English.
Many games in Japan are in English (or partially in English), despite that many Japanese people don't speak it, yet they think it's cool. A good example of this is the Biohazard series (Resident Evil). All cutscense are in English with Japanese subtitles.
I know guy who lives in China and doesn't speak much Chinese at all. He gets around by using a device (forgot the name of it) to translate for him. He's been living there for at least three years now. They only thing he's bothered to learn are a few words and greetings, yet he lives there comfortably. I personally wouldn't want to do this, but people like him prove it's possible.
A friend of mine introduced me to a Russian music album he thought I would like. I gave it a try despite thinking I wouldn't be able to enjoy any of it because I don't speak a word of Russian. The music was actually awesome and catchy, so I was pleasantly surprised.
You can't assume and should not want to limit the release of a game in a region because of a language barrier. I've imported MANY Japanese games (on consoles) long before Steam even existed and before I could even read the Japanese text. That didn't stop me from enjoying those games. Therefore, all games should be available in all countries despite the language that the game supports because it will reach all people who are potentially interested in playing it, language barrier or not. Of course, the developers translating their games in as many languages as possible would be better for all of us.
But if it makes you feel better, the advanced search in Steam let's you search by a language (and other parameters) that you specify.