Phone in one language, game in another: set a language per game in VipMod

Android has one system language for the whole phone. Android 13 added a language setting per app, but it only lists apps that declare support for it, and most games don't. So a game reads your phone's language and picks its translation from that, which sometimes gets you a stiff machine translation and sometimes leaves you in a language you didn't want. In VipMod, every game has a Game language setting of its own.

Pick it in Game tweaks, then open the game again

1. Long-press the game's tile in VipMod, open Game tweaks and tap Game language under Language & region.
2. Pick a language. Besides Device language, the list has English (US and UK), Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Russian, Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese.
3. Open the game. Games check the language as they start, so VipMod closes the game when you change the setting and the next launch picks it up.

Only that game sees the new language. Your phone, your other apps and the other games in VipMod stay as they were, while clones of the same game follow the same setting. To undo it, pick Device language, which hands the game whatever your phone reports.

Most games follow it, some never will

• Games that choose their text from the phone's language switch right away. That covers most Unity games and most casual games, and it's the most common case.
• Games with a language menu of their own usually ignore the phone. Use the game's menu, and you won't need this setting at all.
• Big online games often take the language from your account's region or your server. Changing it here won't move them, because they follow the server you signed up on.
• A game that ships one language has nothing to switch to. Some games only come in English, and some regional releases only carry their own region's languages.

There's one more catch, and the setting warns about it: if the copy of the game on your phone doesn't include the language you picked, the game keeps the one it had. Google Play often delivers only your phone's own language for the parts of a game that Android handles. Games that keep their translations inside their own game files usually aren't affected.

When English is the better translation

• If a game's translation into your phone's language reads like a machine wrote it, set English (US). Most games are written in English first, so that's usually the most natural text in them.
• Japanese and Korean games released worldwide often carry the original language as well as English. Set Japanese or Korean if you'd rather read the original names and story text.
• Some region-locked games check the language and the location as they start. Changing the language together with a fake location for that game is worth one try, but most region locks go by your account rather than your phone's settings, so don't count on it.

A setting can't translate a game

A game with no English in it won't get English from this setting, because switching can only choose between translations the game already has. Translating a game is mod work: replacing the game's text with new text while it runs. That only works where the words are real text, not words painted into the game's artwork, which rules out a lot of titles and buttons. If there's a game you wish you could play in English, tell us about it in the app's support chat, and we can at least tell you which kind of game it is.