Bokura no Kazoku: My Family Growing Up in the 21st Century English translation
ぼくらのかぞく My Family Growing Up in the 21st Century · Bokura no Kazoku
The first English translation of Sony's Japan-only PS2 family life sim, in which a couple raise their children across 35 years, with dialogue, menus, minigames and screen graphics all in English.
What's translated
All of the game's story scenes are in English, along with the Family News messages that report what your family got up to. Every menu, help line, status screen, budget and settings page is translated, as are the names and descriptions of books, schools, clubs, jobs, tutors and outings. The entrance exam quiz has been rebuilt as an English vocabulary quiz, the minigames are playable in English, and labels drawn as graphics, such as the status gauges, season icons and menu badges, have been redone. Some screens were widened to fit the longer English text.
The Japanese voice acting stays, and the book covers and the credits inside the opening and ending movies remain in Japanese.
How it was made
itsbalanse made the translation and the tools behind it with AI assistance.
Playing it
Version 1.0 came out in October 2026, and version 1.1 followed in November with fixes for Family News messages that overflowed or went missing. The patch is made for one specific dump of the original Japanese disc, so apply it to your own copy following the instructions on itsbalanse's project page, which also offers a small patcher and an optional launcher setup for PCSX2.