ℹ When it comes to videogame localization, managing your multilingual store pages is as essential as localizing your in-game content. It doesn't stop with high-quality translation – you still have to implement everything correctly and, ideally, test it.
👨🏭 We regularly implement Steam store translations for our clients, and the recently released new Steam Visual Game Description Editor improves many aspects of this process.
Previously, you had to work in the Steam backend, carefully formatting all the tags and links. To see the final result, you had to publish the live version and immediately test it, checking all language versions to ensure everything looked good (or use the beta feature). Then, you'd fix or add tags if something didn't add up. With the new Visual Game Description Editor, you don't have to do that anymore. This "WYSIWYG" editor allows you to see what your game's "About This Game" section will look like as you work, in all languages.
✅ Now you can see exactly how your description will look in all languages, with a real-time preview of your text, images, and other formatting. No more needing to flip between 'beta' mode previews of your store page or publishing and fixing the live version.
👀 Check out this and more useful new features of the Visual Game Description Editor! It makes our localization work much easier when implementing translations on Steam:
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💡An extra tip
Did you know you can force display a specific language version of your game's Steam description (for example, for live testing purposes)? Just open your game on Steam in your browser, add a forward slash, question mark, exclamation mark, equals sign, and a Steam code for the language you want to see (e.g., /?l=czech). Check out the list of all supported Steam languages and their codes. You need to add API language codes:
partner.steamgames.com/doc/s…
Happy multilingual WYSIWYG editing! 🙌
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