Hey everyone! A Short Hike now has multilingual support! There are currently official French, Spanish, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese translations of the game. I'm not planning to add additional official translations at the moment.


A number of fan translations have already been made for A Short Hike! I think this is really cool, and I'm so happy that people took the time to translate the script (which isn't short!) to new languages. Since version 1.7, you can now easily modify the dialogue files for the game without modding it. However, just keep in mind that fan translations will not be officially added to the game once they are completed.

If you're working on a fan translation, please consider sharing it on the mods subforum. This makes it easier for people to find and collaborate on translations.

In the "AShortHike_Data" folder, you can find a file called "_LANG_Custom.yarn_lines.csv"

This contains all the dialogue in the game in the CSV format.

If you rename it to remove the first underscore, it will appear in the languages menu in-game, allowing you to load it. To give your translation a name, you can rename it to "LANG_MyLanguage.yarn_lines.csv" and it will still show up as "MyLanguage" in the menu.

I recommend editing the spreadsheet in Google Sheets, since it will always preserve the correct CSV delimiters.

To force the game to use different character sets, you can add a FONT row to the CSV.
Only three other character sets are supported right now:

LineCode - LineText
FONT - Chinese:12:0:1*0*0*1
FONT - Korean:16:2
FONT - Japanese:12:2
FONT - Cyrillic:16

Feel free to reach out to me via Discord[discord.gg] or email[adamgryu.com] for support.


After downloading a file called "LANG_MyLanguage.yarn_lines.csv", drag it into the "AShortHike_Data" folder, wherever the game is installed. Then, just relaunch the game and the translation should appear in the language settings.

Here are some finished fan translations I've found so far - note that I was not involved in their creation in any way and cannot vouch for their quality.

German:
https://ashorthike-de.fuly.network/
Korean:
blog.naver.com/dkfvls1/221616949906
Russian:
https://github.com/lotva/ashorthike-ru/tree/main
Czech:
gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1055540/discussions/2/3102390454974749339/
Turkish (by berfuji):
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iquf4rotr5MtymA1h7Qi0UJ_QPsSJ9NJ
Italian:
https://gamebanana.com/mods/474273
Chinese:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121640937

Stay safe out there!
- Adam