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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 program for playing the games you already own in your own language. Most games are only made in a few languages, so most people play in one they only half understand. With Tranzio, you find a translation somebody made, press one button, and the game is in your language. And if nobody made one yet, Tranzio is also the place to make it, with no special knowledge needed to start.
You do not need to be good with computers, and you do not need to have done anything like this before. This help center assumes nothing: every screen, every button, and every word you will meet is explained somewhere here, in plain language, usually with a small moving picture. If you want the shortest possible start, read Your first time, step by step and come back for the rest when you need it.
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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 team's version of a game in one language. It can follow the original closely, or take it somewhere else entirely, jokes and new voices included. A game can have several adaptations in the same language, each with its own style and coverage, and 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. |
| Community and Beta | Who made an adaptation and how finished it is. Community means published and playable, made by players. Beta means the team is still working on it, so expect rough edges. |
| 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. The index matters more than it sounds: it lets the assistant say "that's covered under Fonts & glyphs, open that page and copy it too" instead of inventing an answer. |
| Copy the whole Help Center | Every page at once, well over 30,000 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.