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Opening a game's details shows everything about its translation before you install: coverage, what's inside, and what other players think. Two minutes here saves surprises later.
The game page
Opening a game's details shows everything about its translation before you install: coverage, what's inside, and what other players think. Two minutes here saves surprises later.
Click any game card and you land on its game page. This is the "read before you install" screen, and it's designed so that two minutes here answers every question that matters: how much is translated, are the voices dubbed, will my alphabet display, and is anyone still maintaining it. Nothing installs until you say so, so poke around freely.
The header
The banner across the top is the whole decision in one strip. The art, the developer and the year come from the game's store listing. The green chip says which language this page is currently showing you, the control next to the button says whose translation that is, and the button does the thing.
The thumbs above the button are how players rate a translation: like it, dislike it, or press yours again to take it back. They are disabled on your own translation and when you are signed out, and hovering them says why. On a translation of your own the main button reads Scan for new content instead of Install: it runs the scan again after the game updates, so new lines and voices come in while everything you translated stays.
FromSoftware · Bandai Namco · 2022
Elden Ring
Two variations you may meet. If you don't own the game itself and it is sold through Tranzio, the button reads Buy with a price, because a translation is no use without the game under it. And on a game that isn't in your library there is nothing to switch between, so the control becomes a plain label naming the adaptation the button would fetch.
What each section tells you
The page opens on Overview, which is two columns doing two different jobs. The left is the game, pulled from its store listing. The right is the translation, and it's the half you came for.
The game, from Steam
The translation
Coverage for the adaptation you are looking at: text, voice lines and fonts, each carrying its own percent so one number can never hide another.
| Panel | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Trailers & screenshots | The game's own media, straight from Steam. Useful when you're browsing translations for games you haven't played. |
| About, reviews, what's inside | The store description, critic scores, and the feature list (controller support, cloud saves, and so on). All of it describes the game, not the translation. |
| About this game | The publisher's own description, pictures and looping clips included, since a store page explains a game as much through those as through the prose. It opens on the first screenful with a Read more underneath, so a long listing doesn't push the translation below the fold. |
| System requirements | Minimum and recommended specs per platform, again from the store. A patch adds no meaningful weight to these. |
| Where to buy | Store links and the price for the base game, re-read from Steam and Epic once a day, so a sale shows up here rather than months later. Tranzio translates games, it doesn't sell them, so this panel points outward. |
| Translation | The heart of the page: language, how much text is translated, how many voice lines are dubbed, how many fonts were replaced, plus the version, the download size and when it was last updated. |
| Other adaptations | Every other team's version of this game, with a way to open theirs instead. Compare them properly in Choosing an adaptation. |
| Game info and in-game languages | Developer, publisher, release date, genres, age rating, and which languages the game itself already ships with. That last one matters: if the game has your language natively, you may not need a patch at all. |
The tabs
Overview is one of several tabs. The rest are where a translation stops being a set of numbers and starts being something people use, argue about and improve.
The game itself from Steam on the left, the translation on the right: coverage, the other teams' adaptations, and where to buy the base game.
On a game you added yourself, the same strip also carries your workspace: Text, Audio, Fonts, Studio, Build and Settings. Those are covered in the translator chapters, starting with Translating text. There, Stats, Forum and Releases open under that slim workspace bar rather than the store header, so moving between a chart and the strings it counts doesn't scroll a poster past you each time. Overview keeps the header, and on a game you haven't added the header is the page.
Reading the coverage numbers
Coverage is measured in three places, and they move independently. Text is how much of the writing is translated, audio is how many voice clips are dubbed, and fonts is whether your alphabet renders at all. The big number at the top is text only, and it says so, because one blended percentage would let a text-complete pack hide thousands of undubbed lines.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Green | That area is finished. Nothing in it falls back to the original language. |
| Amber | Partly done. The untranslated remainder shows in the original language, which is usually fine for side content and annoying in menus. |
n/a | There was nothing to do here. A game with no voice clips indexed reads "n/a" for audio rather than a scary 0%, because "nothing to dub" and "nothing dubbed" are not the same thing. |
| 0% | There is work in this area and none of it is done. A text-only pack for a fully voiced game looks like this on the audio tile, and that is exactly what it should look like. |
Fonts deserve a word of their own. If a game ships no glyphs for your alphabet, an otherwise perfect translation renders as empty boxes, so a pack showing no fonts replaced on a game that needs them is the one number here that can spoil an install outright.
Every adaptation here is made by a player, so the rating and the install count are how you judge one. Both are in full on the Stats tab. A Betabadge is the one to read carefully: it says the team is still working, so expect gaps. See Ratings & reviews.
Pull, Push and the translation picker
On the pages where you work on a translation, a small strip sits in the corner with three things. Pull fetches the latest work from the cloud copy of the translation: when a teammate changed lines on their computer, Pull brings those changes to yours, and the number on it is how many are waiting. The small arrow beside it can switch on automatic pulling, so changes arrive on their own. Push does the opposite: it sends the changes you made to the cloud, and its number is how many you have not sent yet. Only the translation travels, never the game's own files.
The third thing is the translation picker. A game can have more than one translation of yours, for example one per language, and this chooses which one the Text, Audio, Fonts and Build pages are working on. You can start a new translation from the same menu.
Who made it
Under the coverage card sits Translation credits: the people behind the pack, the lead translator first, then everyone who took a seat on the team. A pack by one person says so rather than calling them a team. Hover a name for the same profile card the forum shows, with Message, Follow and friend buttons, so you can thank or follow the people whose work you are about to install.
Someone translating with Incognito on is credited as Anonymous, with no handle and no card. It is the one page that would otherwise put their name in public.
Reporting a translation
The bottom of the coverage card carries a quiet Report. Use it for a pack that is stolen work, ships unsafe files, is broken beyond use, or is not what its description claims. Pick a reason, add a sentence if it helps, and it reaches the moderators; you cannot report your own, and reporting the same pack twice is one report.
A translation that breaks the rules is hidden: it leaves the store, search and this page for everyone but its owner, who is told what happened and why. Nothing is deleted, and staff can put it back.
Cloning a translation into your own
Under the coverage card, on somebody else's translation, there is Clone adaptation. Cloning is a fork, not a copy of something shared: what comes out is a translation of your own, with you as its owner, and nothing you do to it afterwards touches theirs. It exists so a second translation of a game starts somewhere better than an empty file.
The dialog lists only what that author agreed to hand over. Text, labels and glossary, fonts, dubbed audio and Studio work are five separate answers, and a kind they are keeping does not appear as a control you cannot use, it does not appear at all. You then pick from what is there, so you can take less than they offered but never more. If nobody may clone it, the button is not on the page in the first place.
Clone
This makes you the owner of a new translation of Call of Cthulhu, seeded from Nightfall Team by Alex Carter.
- Translated text
- Labels and glossary
- Fonts
Not on the list, because this author is keeping them: Dubbed audio, Studio work.
A translation is written against the game's own text, and Tranzio cannot give you the game. If the game is not on this computer yet, cloning asks for your copy's folder and reads the strings out of it first, exactly as translating a game of your own normally does. That happens once, and the clone finishes by itself at the end.
What you may take is decided by whoever wrote it, on their Cloning pane, covered in Game settings. Tranzio also records which translation each clone came from, so a chain of them stays connected however far it runs.
Ready to install?
Press Install translation in the header. The installer that opens is a guided flow, walked through in Installing a translation. If the game has several adaptations and you want to compare first, read Choosing an adaptation. And once it's installed, the Releases tab is where you'll see what changed in the next version, covered in Keeping translations up to date.