Choosing an adaptation

Popular games attract more than one team, and each team's result is its own adaptation: the same game, often the same language, and different choices all the way through. One keeps the characters' names in English, another translates them. One is fully dubbed, another is text only but further along. One plays the story straight and another rewrites it for laughs. Tranzio never picks for you quietly, it shows you the options and makes comparing them easy. This page is about that moment of choice.

The picker#

When a game has more than one adaptation, its card and its game page say so, and Choose version opens the picker. It does not hand you a table to study. It answers first: one card at the top, marked We suggest this one, with the reasons written as sentences rather than figures. How much of the game is translated, whether the voices are dubbed too, how many people installed it and what they made of it.

The suggestion is not just the most installed one. A translation has to be far enough along to play before it can be suggested at all; after that a version Tranzio has checked itself wins, then the one players rated best, and installs only break a tie. Ratings lead installs on purpose: an install count says how many people tried something, not what they thought of it, and the count is weighted by how many people voted, so three enthusiastic votes do not outrank nine hundred.

When a game is translated into several languages, tabs across the top split them, and the suggestion is recalculated inside whichever tab you pick. Opening an entry shows its full card:

The source badges, quickly#

Coverage, and what it costs#

Coverage is measured in three places, and they move independently. Text is how much of the writing is translated, voice is how many clips are dubbed, and fonts is whether your alphabet renders at all. A pack can be perfect on one and empty on another, which is exactly where the trade-off between teams lives.

Fonts deserve a word. If a game ships no glyphs for your alphabet, an otherwise complete translation renders as empty boxes, so a pack showing 0 fonts replaced on a game that needs them is the one thing on this screen that can spoil an install outright.

Which one should I pick?#

There's no wrong answer (switching later is painless), but here's the honest decision guide:

Two options, side by side#

When two adaptations are genuinely close, the decision usually comes down to two or three rows. Here's a typical pair: a fully dubbed pack against a lighter one that keeps the original voice acting.

Neither column is the right answer on its own. A player who wants Japanese voices takes the left one and the 4.8 GB that comes with it; a player on a slow connection who's happy reading takes the right one and starts playing in a minute.