WARDOGS: How to Change Language in the Settings Menu

WARDOGS keeps its language control in one place, and it is not on the first settings screen you land on. The option sits inside the Interface tab, below the gear icon, and the change only sticks once you confirm it. Here is exactly where it lives and what to do if you end up stuck in a menu you cannot read.

Quick answer: Open the pause menu, click the gear icon, select INTERFACE, use the LANGUAGE dropdown at the top of the list, then click APPLY at the bottom of the screen.

Languages you can pick in WARDOGS

The dropdown lists each language under its own name rather than in English, so scan for the native spelling. Every option changes interface text only; the game’s spoken audio stays in English.

Language	Label in the dropdown
English	English
German	Deutsch
Spanish (Spain)	español (España)
French	français (France)
Italian	italiano (Italia)
Korean	한국어
Polish	polski (Polska)
Portuguese	português
Portuguese (Brazil)	português (Brasil)
Russian	русский
Turkish	Türkçe (Türkiye)
Ukrainian	українська (Україна)
Simplified Chinese	中文 (简体)

Japanese and Traditional Chinese are also part of the game’s localization support. Vietnamese, Arabic, and Thai are not offered, and there is no official way to add them.

Change the language from the Interface settings

You can do this from the main menu or mid-match without leaving the server. The route is the same either way.

WARDOGS main menu with DEPLOY (SERVER BROWSER) highlighted under the PLAY tab — The PLAY menu, where DEPLOY (SERVER BROWSER) sits — settings are reachable from here before you deploy. Image: Bulkhead

Press your pause key to bring up the in-game menu. If you are already sitting in the main menu or the squad screen, you can skip straight to the gear icon.

Click the gear icon along the top row of tabs. That opens SETTINGS, which is split into GAMEPLAY, VIDEO, AUDIO, CONTROLS, GAMEPAD, INTERFACE, and EXTRAS.

WARDOGS squad screen showing CREATE SQUAD and JOIN SQUAD with the gear tab highlighted at the top — The //SQUAD screen with the gear tab highlighted at the top — that gear is the way into Settings. Image: Bulkhead

Select the INTERFACE tab, marked with a flag icon. This is the same page that holds HUD and nameplate options, so do not stop at GAMEPLAY or VIDEO looking for a language toggle.

Click the LANGUAGE dropdown, which sits at the very top of the Interface list under the accessibility options. Scroll the list and click the language you want.

WARDOGS Interface settings with the LANGUAGE field highlighted and the language list open — The LANGUAGE field at the top of the Interface settings, with the selection list open. Image: Bulkhead

Click APPLY at the bottom of the screen. Nothing saves until you do, and backing out with RESET CHANGES or the escape key will drop your pick.

How to confirm the language actually changed

Watch the Interface page itself. As soon as APPLY registers, the surrounding labels redraw in the new language, so entries like NAMEPLATE BACKGROUND OPACITY, ADAPTIVE CROSSHAIR, KILLFEED FILTER, and HUD VISIBILITY PRESET should all switch over. If those still read in English, the change did not take and you need to press APPLY again.

WARDOGS Interface settings with Nameplate Background Opacity selected and its slider at 0% — The rest of the Interface list, such as Nameplate Background Opacity — these labels are your quickest confirmation the language applied. Image: Bulkhead

Note: RESET TO DEFAULT sits next to APPLY on the same row. It restores the whole Interface page, not just the language, so avoid it if you have tuned your HUD.

Force the language back to English with GameUserSettings.ini

Two situations leave you unable to fix this in-game. One is picking a language you cannot read and losing track of the menu. The other is the first-launch setup flow, where the audio page can cut off at the bottom with no visible continue button and no hotkey to confirm. Editing the config file resolves both.

Close WARDOGS completely. In your Steam library, the blue STOP button means the game is still running and the file will get overwritten when it exits.

Steam library page for WARDOGS with the blue STOP button showing the game is currently running — The Steam library page for WARDOGS showing the STOP button — the game must be shut down before you edit the config. Image: Bulkhead

Press Win + R and paste the config folder path, then hit Enter.

%localappdata%\Wardogs\Saved\Config\WindowsClient

Open GameUserSettings.ini in a text editor and use Ctrl + F to find the Language entry.

Set the value to English and save the file.

Language=en

Launch the game again. The menus come back in English, and you can then use the Interface tab to pick a different language properly.

Because the setting lives in a per-machine config file rather than your account, each PC you play on needs its own pass through the Interface tab. Set it once per install and it carries across sessions.