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Tranzio lets you play the games you own in your own language, and, if you want, build translations for others. This help center explains every screen so you never have to guess.
Welcome to Tranzio
Tranzio lets you play the games you own in your own language, and, if you want, build translations for others. This help center explains every screen so you never have to guess.
Tranzio is a desktop app for playing games in your own language. Thousands of great games never get translated into most of the world's languages, so players either miss out or play in a language they only half understand. Tranzio fixes that from both ends: it gives players a catalog of fan-made and verified translations they can install in a couple of clicks, and it gives translators a complete workshop for making those translations, from the first translated menu label to a fully dubbed voice track.
There has never really been an app like this, so don't worry if the ideas feel new. This help center assumes nothing: every screen, every button, and every word you'll meet is explained somewhere here, in plain language. You can read it front to back using the Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of each page, or jump straight to the screen you're curious about from the list on the left.
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The two things people do in Tranzio
Everything in the app serves one of two activities. You can do either, or both. Plenty of people start by installing a translation, fall in love with the idea, and end up making one for their own language.
Play in your language
Find a game you own, pick a translation, and install it. It takes a few minutes, it's completely reversible, and your save files are never touched.
Build a translation
Add a game, translate its text at your own pace, optionally dub the voices, then build and share a patch other players can install.
If you're wondering how any of this is possible (how an app can change a game's language without breaking it, and why it's safe), there's a short, friendly explanation in How translations work. It's worth five minutes before your first install.
Tranzio is in open beta. Right now it supports games built on Unreal Engine 4 and 5, which covers a large share of modern PC games. Support for more engines is on the way, so if your game isn't supported yet, check back soon.
A few words you'll see everywhere
Tranzio has a small vocabulary of its own. These five words carry most of it; the full list lives in the Glossary.
Translation: the localized version of a game: its text, its fonts, sometimes its voices.
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Translation | The localized version of a game: its text, its fonts, and sometimes its voices too. |
| Adaptation | One specific translation made by one team. A single game can have several adaptations in the same language, each with its own style and coverage. You pick the one you like. |
| Coverage | How much of the game is translated. Text only means menus and dialogue read in your language; Text + full audio means the voices are dubbed as well. |
| Verified | An adaptation that Tranzio has reviewed for quality and safety. Community and Beta adaptations are made by players and haven't been through that review yet. |
| Install | Applying a translation to a game on your computer. Tranzio saves a restore point first, so installing is always reversible. |
Lost on any screen? Two lifelines are always there: the search box at the top (press Ctrl + F), and this help center under Documentation in the sidebar.
Is it safe for my games?
Yes, and this matters enough to say up front. Before Tranzio changes a single file, it saves a restore point, a copy of everything it's about to touch. You can put any game back exactly as it was with one click. Your save files and your progress live in a different place entirely and are never modified. And because a translation patch contains only the translation itself, never the game's own content, you install it into a copy of the game you already own.
The one caution: online multiplayer games with strict anti-cheat. Their anti-cheat can object to any modified files, translations included. Single-player and offline play are fine. Details in Installing a translation.
Where to go next
Take the window tour
Learn the sidebar, the top bar, and the search in a few minutes.
How translations work
The five-minute explanation of patches, restore points, and coverage.
Install your first translation
The full step by step, from finding a game to launching it.
Browse the glossary
Every Tranzio word in one place, explained in a sentence each.
Curious about accounts, plans, or where your data lives? That's Accounts, plans & your data.
Asking an AI about Tranzio
Every page here opens with Ask an AI about this, and it offers two ways to hand the documentation over. Either one copies plain text you can paste straight into ChatGPT, Claude or whatever you use, and then ask questions in your own words.
| Choice | What lands on your clipboard |
|---|---|
| Copy this page | The page you are reading, a short description of what Tranzio is, and a one-line index of every other page with its address. The index matters more than it sounds: it lets the assistant say "that's covered under Fonts & glyphs" and point you straight at that page, instead of inventing an answer. |
| Copy the whole Help Center | All 33 pages at once, around 31,000 words. Right when your question spans several screens, though some chat boxes will refuse a paste that long, so one page at a time is usually the better trade. |
Assistants that browse can skip the pasting: this site publishes tranzio.studio/llms.txt, a plain-text index of every page here, which is enough for a model to fetch the one it needs on its own.
The same Help Center is built into the app itself, under Documentation in the sidebar, with the same two buttons.