RuneTranslate

Description

RuneTranslate is a desktop game translator for Windows and Linux that extracts the script from a game, translates it with the provider of your choice and rebuilds a playable game in your language. It works from any source language, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and translates into 35 target languages.

It supports 18 game engines, including RPG Maker MV, MZ, XP, VX and Ace, Ren'Py, Kirikiri, Wolf RPG, TyranoBuilder, Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine 4 and 5, GameMaker, SRPG Studio and NScripter, plus Gettext files. It detects the engine from the folder structure and works in a separate workspace, so your original game folder is never modified.

Game markup is replaced with placeholders before text is sent for translation and restored afterwards, so tags are not broken. RuneSight, a small neural classifier, separates real text from code-like strings such as asset paths. Translation memory answers exact repeats without calling the provider.

It offers twelve translation providers, including DeepL, Google Translate, Yandex, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini Nano, local models through Ollama or LM Studio, any OpenAI-compatible API, and its own RuneLingua machine translation. Provider routing can send short menu strings to one service and dialogue to another.

Key features include a translation queue for running several projects unattended, live collaboration with invite codes, image-text translation that detects and typesets text baked into artwork, a Claude Desktop integration over MCP, a glossary editor and an AI refiner. It also includes a save editor and an offline single-player cheat menu for RPG Maker and Ren'Py games.

A Developer tab lets game makers import their own CSV, JSON, PO or XLIFF strings, translate them into many languages at once and export them back with keys intact.

Pricing: the Free plan costs $0 and includes all 18 engines, 11 of 12 providers and the full editor, limited to one project and throttled speed. Supporter is $3.99 a month, Pro is $5.89 a month and Ultimate is $9.69 a month, adding full-speed translation, RuneLingua character quotas, more projects, larger queues and image translation limits.

It is suited to players who want to play Japanese and other foreign-language games in their own language, fan translation teams, and indie developers localising their own games.