Valorant splits its language settings across three places: the in-game menu controls text, the Riot Client controls voice-overs, and Valorant Mobile follows your phone's system language. This guide gives you the exact menu path for each, current as of June 2026.
How to Change Text Language in Valorant
This changes menus, subtitles, and UI text only - agent voices stay the same. Here's the fastest method:
- Launch Valorant and click the V logo in the top-left corner, then select Settings
- Open the General tab - Text Language is the first option at the top
- Select your preferred language from the dropdown
- Fully exit Valorant and the Riot Client, then relaunch
A full restart of both the game and the client is required. Just backing out to the main menu won't apply the change.
How to Change Voice Language in Valorant
There is no voice-over dropdown inside Valorant itself. Agent voices and announcer lines follow the game language set in the Riot Client, so you change them there:
- Close Valorant if it's running
- In the Riot Client, click your profile icon in the top-right corner and select Settings
- Open the Valorant tab in the left sidebar
- Change Game Text Language to the language you want to hear
- Wait for the client to download the new audio and text files, then launch Valorant
This switches both voice and text together. Voice packs add a few GB to your install, so check our Valorant download size guide if storage is tight.
Mixing Voice and Text (e.g., Japanese Voices, English Text)
Want Japanese voice-overs with English menus? Set the Riot Client's Game Text Language to Japanese using the steps above, launch Valorant, then change Text Language back to English in the in-game General settings. The Japanese voice pack stays installed while your text reverts, and this combo works for any language pair.
How to Change the Riot Client Language
If you haven't logged in yet, you can switch languages straight from the sign-in screen:
- Open the Riot Client and stay on the sign-in screen (sign out if needed)
- Click the gear icon in the bottom-right corner
- Select your language from the Game Language dropdown
- Log in and launch Valorant
This is handy on shared PCs, since each player can pick their language before launching. Riot's official Changing Languages in VALORANT support page covers region-specific edge cases.
How to Change Language in Valorant Mobile
Valorant Mobile launched in China in August 2025 and is rolling out globally through 2026 - see our Valorant Mobile beta guide for the latest regional availability. The current build has no standalone language menu and instead follows your phone's system language.
- Android: open Settings > System > Languages and set your preferred language first in the list
- iOS: open Settings > General > Language & Region and change the device language
- Force-close Valorant Mobile and relaunch it
The game's interface switches to match your device language if it's supported. Expect a dedicated in-game language selector as the global rollout matures.
Available Languages in Valorant
As of 2026, Valorant supports these languages on PC:
- English
- German
- Spanish (European and Latin American)
- French
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Arabic
- Polish
- Russian
- Turkish
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Vietnamese
- Thai
- Japanese
- Korean
With millions of players worldwide, Riot keeps expanding language support to reach new regions.
Language Change Not Working?
If the new language doesn't apply, make sure you fully closed both Valorant and the Riot Client - check the system tray for a lingering Riot Client icon. If a language pack download stalls or files end up corrupted, run a repair with the Riot repair tool to redownload the affected files.
Conclusion
Text language lives in Valorant's in-game General settings, voice language is controlled by the Riot Client's Valorant tab, and Valorant Mobile follows your device language. Change the setting, restart everything completely, and you're done.