Simplified Chinese Language and UI Update · 简体中文

The shop now speaks seven languages. Simplified Chinese joins English, Russian, German, Spanish, French and Japanese, and Settings gets a small but honest addition to go with it.

简体中文: Simplified Chinese

Dark Workshop Simulator now supports Simplified Chinese. All 1,397 lines of text in the game are translated. Not a subset, not the menus only:

• Items, recipes, crafting and supplier catalogues
• Contracts, quests and random encounters
• Employee descriptions and skills
• Customer dialogue, the Whispering Skull's quips, sticky notes and loading tips
• Every menu, tooltip and label floating in the shop itself

Switch to it any time from the Settings menu. The change is instant: every piece of text swaps language and font on the spot, with no restart.

致中文玩家

黑暗工坊模拟器现已支持简体中文！游戏中全部 1,397 条文本均已翻译：物品、配方、制作、供应商目录、委托、任务、员工、顾客对话、骷髅的吐槽以及加载提示。无论是调配药剂、锻造武器，还是与顾客讨价还价，一切尽在中文呈现。

随时可以在设置菜单中切换语言，无需重启游戏。

请注意：中文版本为 AI 机器翻译，尚未经过母语玩家校对。如果你发现任何翻译错误或读起来别扭的地方，欢迎在 Discord 上告诉我，我会尽快修正。

Getting the characters on screen

Chinese uses the same Noto Sans CJK font as the Japanese update. Characters are drawn as the game needs them rather than baked in ahead of time, which keeps the download small despite the thousands of glyphs involved.

The game's six decorative display fonts have no Chinese characters, so in Chinese they all hand over to Noto Sans. The shop loses a little of its gothic lettering in exchange for text you can actually read.

One caveat for sharp-eyed players: the font is the Japanese variant, and a handful of characters may show Japanese-style glyph forms rather than the mainland Chinese ones. A dedicated Simplified Chinese font is on the list.

A translation note in Settings

When I added the first batch of languages I wrote that everything except English is machine translated. That was in a devlog post. It should also be in the game.

So now it is. When you pick a language that was AI translated and has not been reviewed by a native speaker, Settings shows a short note saying so, with a pointer to the Discord for corrections. The note is written in the language you selected.

Right now it appears for German, Japanese and Chinese. When a native speaker has been through a language, the note comes off it.

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Spotted a line that reads wrong? Come and tell me in the Dark Workshop Discord. A two-word correction from someone who speaks the language beats another pass from me.

发现翻译问题？欢迎加入 黑暗工坊 Discord 告诉我。