Ever since Orwell Seasons One and Two released, we’ve constantly been asked whether we’d localize the game in other languages. Osmotic has always been interested in doing this, particularly since the game has such a strong narrative focus. What better way to ensure that players around the world can enjoy the game than to translate it into their language?
So what’s been stopping us? Well, Orwell is specifically designed and coded in such a way that we had to build out a unique method of implementing translations, from scratch—which added time and other challenges to this goal.
But—here’s the exciting bit! We’re now working through those challenges in a bunch of ways, one of which is hiring a professional localization service.
Soon we’ll be able to release Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You to multiple new languages, including German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Wau! C'est génial! Hurra! 厉害!
However, we know this doesn’t cover every language spoken by our fans. So we wanted to offer all of you the opportunity to help us bring the game to YOUR language… and to achieve that, we’ve created a Crowdin project for Orwell, at translate.orwell-game.com. If you’re a fan of the game, and you’d like to participate in translating the game into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, or other languages, let us know!
We’re really thrilled at the opportunity to bring Orwell to new players all over the globe, and we wanted to thank the community for their continued support—especially those who choose to dedicate their time to helping us localize more widely.
Since there is a lot of development work to implement localization, right now we are focusing on Season One but, once complete, we will investigate localizing Orwell: Ignorance is Strength.
This project is one of our top priorities right now. You can expect to hear more updates on continued development and timing, as soon as possible.
Thank you!! Merci! Danke! Спасибо!
Join the Crowdin project: translate.orwell-game.com/
We look forward to bringing you more news soon.
Keep travelling!
The Fellow Traveller team & Osmotic Studios
