you need to talk the games developer or publisher, as they add any translations for the game. Not a steam issue as This is a STEAM related sub-forum, to discuss Ideas and suggestions for valve to make to the steam User Interface on the App, client and website and the online steam services. Auto translation features are not going to happen, it would cost valve / steam a lot of $ per day.

Originally posted by pckirk:

you need to talk the games developer or publisher, as they add any translations for the game. Not a steam issue as This is a STEAM related sub-forum, to discuss Ideas and suggestions for valve to make to the steam User Interface on the App, client and website and the online steam services. Auto translation features are not going to happen, it would cost valve / steam a lot of $ per day.

I don't believe the OP is asking for translations, or an auto translation feature here. They are asking to not have to redownload the game every time they want to switch language.

With that said, that is still out of Valve's control because the developers control how the game handles changing language. Some games do let you switch language from inside the game, on the fly, but that again depends on the game, so it is up to the dev.

Thet depends entirely on how the dev/pubs set their installers up.
There are many games that don't do it that way. And quite frankly Steam doesn;t know the language files from the readme files.

It is not redownloading the entire game, it's a dropdown menu item in the game property page from the steam library screen where I can select "english" or "german" or "[any other languages the publisher/developer made available]"
The thing I'm requesting is for Valve to adjust their own steam function that already exists and is there to change the language of a game, to allow for multiple simultaniously installed languages i.e. ([x] when changing language keep the current languages files in a seperate folder).

Edit: To give an example when I navigate to the game Dying Light 2 in my library and open properties from the context menu, in the general section there right now already is that dropdown menu allowing for a change of language. My request is to have some built in way to tell that function that I'd like to keep both language files. I am aware that it is not a 2 minute job, there are quite a few considerations to be made.

Thanks for the feedback though, reading it back I could have made myself clearer from the get go.