I can't find the option to change a game's language.

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Megadraco 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:37pm

I can't find the option to change a game's language.

Hello, everyone. I'm from Argentina, a Spanish speaking country, but I would like to play my games with English text. However, some of them are in Spanish by default, and don't have language changing options in-game. I looked up how to change this, and followed the instructions as well as I could. My Steam client is in English, but when I go to any game's Properties page, none of them have a Language tab. Again, this happens with all games.

Can anyone help out?

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Oratian 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:38pm

Which games my dude?

Megadraco 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:40pm

Huh. I checked, and I was mistaken. This doesn't, in fact, happen with all games. However, the games in question are Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, and Dust: An Elysian Tail.

Last edited by Megadraco; 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:40pm

Ogami 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:42pm

When you cant change the language over the game properties tab then you need to change them ingame.
If there is no option for both than the version of the game available in your region does not offer any other languages. Can happen, especially if you are from a country where games are much cheaper. Locking the language to just the local one prevents reselling on the international market.
Some publishers love to do that, especially UBISOFT and ACTIVISION.

Megadraco 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:43pm

Thing is, the latter one at least, I got as a gift from a friend who lives in the US, so if anything, the language should be locked into English...

Ogami 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:44pm

"Dust: An Elysian Tail" and "Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition" both are games that automatically set the language to that of your OS.
So you need to change your windows language settings to English if you want to play those games in English.

Last edited by Ogami; 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:45pm

Megadraco 26 Dec, 2016 @ 9:44pm

Alright, thanks!

mikabracais 25 Jul @ 9:31am

I found them all, and none a them worked. It's still playing in my native language, which y'know, I actually didn't want to, I wanted to play it in English. You'd think that being the default would work.

Oh wait, in-game... yeah, that might be it.

Last edited by mikabracais; 25 Jul @ 9:31am