How to change the language for any game

[Karl]

I have an old non steam game in Chinese that I know for a fact can be played in English (just don’t know how). Is there a generic way to change the language for any game to English? Maybe using steam?

[Iceira]

Still region depended, but if game own right click properties dont have it, and i doubt its a dlc or other way to change it.

Don't forget some game can use client choise and then apply games to it, not sure steam do this i have seen EA games do that, im dane then it use Danish and thats a problem with local names in multiplayer a english person won't understand your names of things.

So sometimes user own settings can do this, im not sure steam do this, browser do it now and app, and that mean games should do this.


and take backup of save games files and mod, try reinstall game can also be a fix if its code in the installer.


its funny we other have the other side of this Bandit king's in Ancient china , so many of them is not english. and we other are lost there.

[Iceira]

Take another game with it, so you can see the option is there, then game devs made it so.
could be a very good way so you know it actual work and what to look for.

[Crazy Tiger]

Depending on how old it is, it might require a language pack. Some old games I have had baked into the installer that you put checkmarks before the content you want to install, language packs often were part of that (and unchecked by default).

Steam is just a launcher, it does not decide the language the games are playable in. Games can have the function that it checks the language of the Steam client and matches the in-game language to the client, but that's only for Steam games.

There are games that use the OS language in-game. So that's also a possibility.

[metamec]

Is it possible that the version you own does not support English?

Some games support other languages natively (all pre-installed), and as Crazy Tiger says some games need language packs. Some games have different versions available for different regions.

[Karl]

Reinstalling the game fixed it for me. I think it’s something that has to do with the registry. Anybody knows how that works (how reinstalling helped)? There was no option for language in the installer.

[Paz]

same for me