European Retail Releases of Adventure Games in English

This is a list of DRM-Free, European retail releases of adventure games that contain the game in English and don't have an official English retail release.

Gomo. The German retail release is multilingual. Simply change the language from the options menu.

Journey of a Roach. The German retail release is multilingual. Simply change the language from the options menu.

Edna & Harvey - Special Edition. This German retail release contains both English and German versions of both Edna & Harvey - The Breakout and Edna & Harvey - Harvey's New Eyes. The second game was never released in English in retail. Also, as a collector's edition it contains various cool stuff.

Deponia - The Complete Journey.  This German retail release contains both English and German versions of all three Deponia games. The third game of the series, Goodbye Deponia, was never released in English in retail. Also, as a collector's edition it contains various cool stuff.

1954 Alcatraz. The German retail release is multilingual and supports many languages but only after you apply the official 1.3 patch. Be aware though that this is a 1.70GB patch!

Lilly Looking Through. The German retail release is multilingual. Simply change the language from the options menu.

Randal's Monday. The German retail release is multilingual. Simply change the language to English from the options menu.

Eleusis. The German retail release of this game contains the English version.

Memento Mori 2. This German retail release contains a semi-English version of the game besides the obvious German version. This semi version has English menus and subtitles but no English voices. The game is fully playable with German voices with English subtitles. In order to activate this option you need to run the executable with these parameters: -lang:en,ge
The easiest way is to put them on a desktop shortcut.
e.g. “C:\Program Files (x86)\Memento Mori 2\MEMENTO2.exe” -lang:en,ge

Dream Chamber. This French retail release is multilingual. You can change the language to English from the game menu.

Memoria. The Italian retail release of this game contains the full English version.

Downfall. The Russian jewel-case retail release of this game contains the English version too, but in order to activate it you need to change the language in the acsetup.cfg file in the game directory. Under the label [language] change the line so it says translation=Eng.

Custom Game Covers - Part 7

The Old City Leviathan

Ether One

Legend Of Grimrock II

Mind - Path To Thalamus

Black Sails: The Ghost Ship in English!!!

Black Sails: Das Geisterschiff (aka Black Sails: The Ghost Ship) is a German adventure game released by Deck13 in 2010. Like many, many others it was never localized in English.

This patch converts the German retail release of the game to an English one. Obviously the spoken language will remain in German, but menu, in-game text and subtitles have been translated in English.

To install the patch extract the archive to the game directory (that's where where the uninstall.exe is) and overwrite the files as necessary. Then run the batch file named RunMe.bat and again choose yes to overwrite the files when asked. Please read the instructions in ReadMe.txt carefully.

I strongly suggest you apply the latest official patch for the German retail release which you can find here. This will update the version of the game from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1. You need to apply this official patch BEFORE you apply my English patch. The English patch will update the version to 1.0.5.

As always, you can buy the game from the German Amazon online store.

Notes:

1. By default the subtitles are turned off, so the first time you run the game you have to go to the Settings menu and turn them on.

2. Don't use very high resolutions because it will made the fonts very small and the various notes and letters in the game will be difficult to read.

3. If the intro cutscene is displayed stretched on the top part of the screen you have to set the anti-aliasing option to 4x. Somehow the antialiasing option messes with the cutscene playback!

4. If the game crashes during save/load then you need to set your Standards and Formats in the Regional Options to English (United States). In other words you need to change how your time and date is displayed. It doesn't need a restart and you can change it back any time you want.

You can download the English patch for Black Sails - The Ghost Ship here.

I also wrote a walkthrough in English which you can download here.

Enjoy!

Louisiana Adventure - German-to-English patch

Louisiana: Das Geheimnis der Sümpfe (aka Louisiana Adventure) is an adventure game produced by SilverPlay Entertainment and released in 2011.

This small patch (about 55MB) converts the German retail release to the official 100% English and DRM-free one. To install it, simply extract the archive to the main game directory and run the executable choosing yes when asked to overwrite some files.

The German retail release can be found on the German Amazon store.

I strongly suggest you install the latest official patch before installing the English conversion patch. The latest official patch can be found here.

You can download the German-to-English patch here.

Enjoy!

Puzzle Agent - German-to-English patch

Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent is an adventure/puzzle game by Telltale Games, in collaboration with Graham Annable, which was released in 2010.

This small patch (less than 2.50MB) converts the DRM-Free German retail release to the official 100% English one. To install it, simply extract the archive to the main game directory (the one where the executable Grickle101.exe is located), run the batch file (RunMe.bat) and select YES when asked to add information to the registry.

The German retail release can be found on the German Amazon store.

You can download the patch here.

Enjoy!

Custom Game Covers - Part 6

Quantum Conundrum

Violett

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf - Sector II

The Stanley Parable

Red Johnson's Chronicles: One Against All - German-to-English patch

Red Johnson’s Chronicles - One Against All is an adventure game developed by the French company Lexis Numérique in 2011 and the sequel to Red Johnson’s Chronicles. Like the previous one, this one too is filled with some really tough puzzles.

This small patch (only 22MB) converts the German retail release, which is DRM-free by the way, to the official 100% English release. To install it, simply unpack the archive to the game directory, run the executable and choose Yes to overwrite the files when asked.

The German retail release can be found on the German Amazon store.

You can download the patch here.

Enjoy!