[겜ㅊㅊ] 5 games finally available in Korean
2023.02.06 17:57 Game Mecca Reporter Shin Jae-yeon
※ [겜ㅊㅊ]is a corner that recommends games that gamers can enjoy according to a special theme every week.
[겜ㅊㅊ]In the corner, there is a topic that cannot be left out if you have to pick a topic that a lot of people are interested in. It’s the Korean patch. There may be ways to enjoy games in the original language or use a translator, but most of them start with one of operation, system adaptation, and story. Or put the game itself down, or put it off and forget it with the thought that it should be done when a user patch comes out later. For the reminder of such people, this week [겜ㅊㅊ]would like to introduce a game that has been patched in Korean in the hopes of many users, regardless of whether it is official or unofficial.
1. The Case Of The Golden Idol
The first game to introduce is ‘The Case of Golden the Idol’. It is an eye-catching game with characters and components that look like children’s doodles or caricatures, and visuals that express 18th century Europe in crude colors. The game depicts twelve different events organically and delicately with unique and simple gameplay. As a result, Steam user reviews remain overwhelmingly positive (99% of 2,227 reviews are positive).
2. Papers, Please
Next is Paper Please, a game that officially announced that it supports Korean after 9 years of release. It’s a border control simulator and paperwork thriller where you check the paperwork of entrants to the fictional communist country of Astotska. Players will be lucky enough to become a checkpoint inspector and conduct inspections against entrants. In Korea, it has received attention as an unofficial cultural language patch called ‘Comrade, Ryeokwonnaerau’.
The Korean official translation announced through the 1.4.4 update last November is said to have been conducted by Bada Games, which has translated various famous indie games such as Omori, Coffee Talk, and Darkest Dungeon. There is still a little interest in the official Korean patch due to the impact of the previous cultural language patch, but as you can see from the published screenshots, it is a fairly elaborate translation, so why not enjoy it.
3. Mind Scanner
Mind Scanner, which has a world view similar to Paper Please, is also a game that has recently been translated into Korean. In a dystopia where oppression and control are commonplace, players must become a ‘mind scanner’ to analyze the minds of citizens and diagnose them in order to save their daughter who was captured by the leadership. After diagnosis, the main content is to distinguish between normal and abnormal, treat abnormal people, and save their daughter by earning money.
4. West of Loathing
West of Rotting is a black comedy adventure text RPG with impressive Western humor. It is characterized by simple design characters and black and white visuals, which we commonly call a stick man. Looking at the graphics alone, it seems flat and crude, but it’s not an important factor as the genre of the game is a text RPG. The strength of this game is that it is more suitable for its simple graphics, and it is a pun overflowing with nonsense.
5. Strangeland (Wonderland)
Strangeland is a point-and-click horror adventure reminiscent of the work of HR Giger, who also provided the visual motif for Scone. It develops by unraveling the relationship between nightmare and reality in a heterogeneous world. Along the way, players will encounter strange and awkward elements such as mysterious gadgets, strange companions, and giant rideable cicadas. It is an impressive game that all these configurations are implemented in dots according to the low resolution of 640×360.