Black Myth: Wukong Stuck in Chinese? Fix in <1 Min

If you launch Black Myth: Wukong and find everything in Chinese, don’t panic—this is a common bug, not a permanent lock. The game actually supports a wide range of text languages (English, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Italian, and two Chinese variants), and two spoken languages (Mandarin and English). Once you know the menu positions by heart, switching back to English takes only a minute.

General Language Settings

Normally, you can change spoken and text language from the Settings > Language menu, which has separate dropdowns for “Text” and “Speech” plus a subtitle toggle. But because the bug forces the game to start in Chinese on first launch, you need a workaround to reach those settings.

Fixing the Chinese-Language Bug

Start the game and click through the initial menus blindly until the title sequence plays. Let the opening cutscenes finish, then press Escape to open the in-game settings. Scroll all the way to the bottom of that list and select the last option. Press Enter twice—this drops you back to the title screen. (You cannot change text language while actively in-game; you must return here.)

At the title screen, press any button to bring up the main menu. Scroll down and choose the second-to-last option (it leads to language settings). On the next screen, look for a submenu marked with a small text icon—that’s the fifth item. Open it, select the first option
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