Games that are available in neither English nor Japanese

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A topic I’ve become fascinated with in the past is games that are available in neither English nor Japanese (especially for non-PC platforms), since most games released on consoles are available in one of those two languages.

There’s a lot of games that are based on European properties, like gameshows and children’s books.

For examples:

Benjamin Blümchen: Ein verrukter Tag im Zoo - GBC

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Bibi und Tina Fohlen “Felix” in Gefahr - GBC

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Schlag den Star (series) - Switch/PS4

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Wer weiß denn sowas? (series) - Switch/PS4

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Slide Stars op avontuur met Freek Vonk! - Switch/PS4

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There seems to be other ones based on European shows out there too.

What other games do you know of that don’t have English or Japanese translations?

I’d assume that most of them will be based on German, French and Korean properties.

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There’s a Korean game for NUON which was bundled with Samsung players in their home region. Crayon Shin-Chan 3

https://www.nuon-dome.com/shinchan.html

There are also versions of traditional Korean card games (Go-Stop/Godori rules) for Nintendo DS.

https://fudawiki.org/en/hanafuda/video-games#DS

For France there are games such as that based on a movie from the Taxi series. (Fan translation exists)

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Indian (Samurai was an official regional NES), Chinese (not just iQue), Taiwanese (eg. recently dumped hybrid MSX/Sega Master System games), Chilean (such as educational games about Easter Island), Brazilian Portuguese (big Master System scene), Spanish and Dutch (big MSX scenes; Philips was Dutch).

I’d be surprised if there was a language that had no native video games.

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First that comes to mind is the often memed on Que Pasa Neng

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Metalizer (a 1998 turn-based mech combat game for PCs, which as far as I can tell ,was only released in Germany)