A topic I’ve become fascinated with is games that are available in neither English nor Japanese (especially for non-PC platforms), since most games released on consoles are available in one or both of those two languages.
There’s a lot of games that are based on European properties, like game shows and children’s books.
For examples:
There seems to be other ones based on European shows out there too.
What other games do you know of that don’t have English or Japanese translations? Especially console games.
I’d assume that most of them will be based on German, French, Chinese and Korean properties.
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need to play sword and fairy / chinese paladin 1 + 2 so bad…
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Tulpa
April 22, 2025, 2:28am
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sword and fairy rules, love that game
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Tulpa
April 22, 2025, 2:43am
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La Abadía del Crimen is really cool, and only the remake got an english release so I think it counts for this thread
remake available in english:
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This is the absolutely way too ambitious to actually be playable nonsense I love to see from European microcomputers.
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here’s some footage of an italian advergame commissioned by nestle: “Il mitico videogame di Mister Fruit Joy”
this channel and a few others i subscribe to will sometimes post never-translated dos games from small studios like this
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Fantasia Sango II is probably one of the top of my lists of “want to play but can’t” along with Sword and Fairy’s 2 - 5 and most of the Xuan Yuan series
This is Fantasia Sango II, Userjoy’s award winning 2005 PC game—and my introduction to Taiwanese RPGs. It’s the story of the amnesiac money-chasing hero Chu Ge and the bold, beautiful, …
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Digging through Game Boy Color ROMs I found this gem
Suske en Wiske: de Tijdtemmers/Bub et Bubette: les Dompteurs du Temps
A game based on a Belgian children’s book series that’s only available and playable in Dutch and French.
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An advergame for a Spanish breakfast food.
There’s a translation hack for some reason
https://www.romhacking.net/games/1402/
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