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Developer Doot launches Kabuto Park’s localization with LocQuest

Enjoy summer in Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game! Upgrade your equipment to find rarer, stronger and shinier little friends. LocQuest localized the game into German, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (LatAM), French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Plus 3 additional Steam page languages: Italian, Dutch, and Russian.

A quote from Doot, the developer: “I love working with LocQuest for multiple reasons: I get good feedback from players, having only one point of contact for all localization + LQA is really great as an indie, and I know from people who work for them that they credit and pay well!”

The names and roles of all the localization managers and translators involved in localizing the game.

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Time for Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game!

LocQuest once again teamed up with @dodoot.bsky.social to handle localization for 9 languages.

The 2025 LocQuest Collaborators, a list of names of all the localisation professionals involved in the games that LocQuest worked on last year.

A continuation of the list of professionals LocQuest worked with.

A continuation of the list of professionals LocQuest worked with.

Remembering José Pedro Nicolau Soares Rodrigues, who sadly passed last year.

⭐️ Our 2025 Collaborators of the Year ⭐️

THANK YOU to the talented professionals we get to work with on a day-to-day basis, who live and breathe these games and believe in the human aspect of localization just as much as we do.

Here’s to many more exciting projects in 2026 🥂

Damn, that sounds... awfully expectable. I'm curious to hear a bit more about that process. Is there a way I can contact you for a quick exchange, Anne? My DMs are open as well. Thanks 🙏

Graphic featuring the DLCs that LocQuest worked on in 2025, including: Drop Duchy: The North, Drop Duchy: The Tribe, Halls of Torment: The Boglands, Is This Seat Taken? (8 languages added), and Tavern Talk: Tempest Tantrum

⭐️ THE DLCS OF 2025 ⭐️

So much cool extra content deserved its own post!

Continuously supporting our clients, keeping things consistent, adding that all-important human touch, and watching as their games grow is always so much fun for us. ✨

Our LocQuest 2025 Games of the Year

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Drop Duchy, Mado Monogatori: FIa and the Wondrous Academy, Is This Seat Taken?, Runeborn, Wednesdays

Hold the Mine, Decks of the Damned, Gloomy Eyes, Xion Leak, Repel the Rifts, Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo

Kokoro Kitchen, Later, Wordatro, A Better World, Neongarten, Idle Colony

🏆 LOCQUEST 2025 GAMES OF THE YEAR 🏆

We’re looking back on 2025 and the amazing games that we helped release this year.

Our small agency localized over 18 games last year. Each one with its own unique needs, and done ethically – by humans, for humans.

Tons more releases expected for 2026!

Idea Factory International launch a new game with the help of LocQuest: Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy

In Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy, Fia, an aspiring Great Mage, leaves her hometown and arrives at the Ancient Magic Academy like her grandmother once did. LocQuest localized the game into French.

A quote from Justina Lange, Localization Coordinator at Idea Factory International: “LocQuest was very easy to work with and always receptive to any requests we had! I always appreciated their willingness to ask questions in order to fully understand the text.”

The names and roles of all the localization managers and translators involved in localizing the game.

Feeling the nostalgia. 👵

Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy follows an aspiring Great Mage and her journey through the Ancient Magic Academy 🧙🏻‍♀️

@ifi.games and LocQuest concocted the perfect combination of style and substance, bringing Fia’s journey to life in French. 🪄

Capcom have launching an exciting update to their hit triology Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney with the help of LocQuest.

Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection. LocQuest translated over 780,000 words to bring the game to life in Latin American Spanish!

Screenshots from the game with the Latin American Spanish translation, including the classic, ¡Objeción!

The names and roles of all the localization managers and translators involved in localizing the game.

¡Objeción! ☝️

Last week, @capcomusa.com released the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy in LatAm Spanish.

The culprit?
LocQuest ⛓️
That's Wright!

It may please the court to know that this project was over 780,000 words! 😱

Grab it now on Nintendo Switch, PS4. Xbox One, and Steam ⚖️

It was an honor to be able to work on such an impactful game like Wednesdays. 🩵

And for World Children's Day, @thepixelhunt.bsky.social has made the game free for a limited time. Play it now in Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Portugual), German, English, or French.

Available on Steam and Itch. ⬇️

RefinedBearGames and Goblinz Publishing launch a new demo with the help of LocQuest: Repel the Rifts

Repel The Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos. LocQuest localized the game into 5 languages (French, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Korean)

A quote from developer RefinedBearGames: “LocQuest came in big. With only a week to spare before Steam Next Fest, they helped localize the entire game. They were professional and incredibly helpful, making the process super smooth.”

The names and roles of all the localization managers and translators involved in localizing the game.

Ethical localization isn't an alien concept. 👽

Repel The Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game from @refinedbeargames.bsky.social and
@goblinzstudio.com where you lead a commander through an alien world to hold back chaos. 🛸

LocQuest set phasers to stun in five different languages on this one!

Goblinz and iDream Interactive launch a new title with the help of LocQuest: Runeborn

Runeborn is a dark fantasy roguelike that merges deckbuilding with a slot-machine-like mechanic. LocQuest localised the game into 4 languages (French, German, Spanish, and Korean)

The names and roles of all the localisation managers, translators, editors, and LQA specialists involved in localising the game.

#DarkFantasy? ☑️
#Roguelike? ☑️
#Deckbuilding? ☑️
🔥 Runeborn 🔥

LocQuest has brought Runeborn to life in French, German, Spanish (Spain), and Korean.

Thanks to @goblinzstudio.com, iDream Interactive, and the talented translators and LQA specialists who worked their magic on this one. 🧌

A las órdenes :)

Screnshoot from the credits section of Cast and Chill crediting everyone involved but the translators. The background is a pixelated image of a lake with some mountains full of trees. It reads: Credits Artist and animator Lara Durham Thee song music composer Ryan Ike Background game music Licensed from Space Banjo Lead sound designer Tobias Trstenjak Localization Localize Direct Fonts Lanapixel font, copyright 2020-2023 eishiya Zpix font by Jason Feng Silkscreen font by Jason Kottke.

In #CastandChill, by @wombatbrawler.com, translators are NOT in the credits, only the agency, Localize Direct, is.

The game is available in 12 languages.
#TranslatorsinTheCredits.

The wait is over, Wordatro is finally out! 🔥

The game is now fully available in Italian, German, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese. Unleash your skills!

The LocQuest team also contributed to the game interface localization Russian, and marketing content in Finnish and Norwegian.

Enjoy! 🎉

Steam Fest is on, featuring 2 games with our work!

💀🧛Decks of the Damned: Darkness rises again, now in 9 languages! Dev'd by @thoriangames.bsky.social and published by @goblinzstudio.com 🫀

🌱⛵️Collector's Cove: Relax on a cozy journey across 7 languages! Dev'd and published by Voodoo Duck 🫶

¡Orgullo latino! 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
We're thrilled to announce our Latam Spanish localization for Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo is now live! 🐍
We hope you enjoy this Latam-flavoured gem developed by @gallagames.bsky.social and published by @fellowtraveller.games 🫶
#gameloc

🏍️ Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos is shifting into high gear, now in French & Spanish! 🏍️

We had the joy of localizing this high-speed, Neptunia-packed racing adventure, ensuring the humor, action, and energy translate over the fast lane into 🇫🇷French and 🇪🇸Spanish (Spain).

Google Pixels have been good to me, and the 9 looks and feels pretty, pretty good! 8a should be still a good and cheaper option too.

Tavern Talk's new DLC "Tempest Tantrum" is out now featuring our work in English editing, German and Korean. As always, a huge thank you to the amazing Gentle Troll folks for trusting us with such a narrative gem 🫶

I had the great honor of meeting Tim in the Netherlands earlier this year, and then the added extra honor of taking care of the Steam page translation for "THE BUTTON EFFECT" into 12 languages. Check it out!

*Se aclara la garganta y, con ritmo de "No es mi despedida" de Gilda, canta:*

No vengo por salir campeón;
vengo porque te quiero.
Yo vengo para recordar a los que ya se fueron.
¡Doy gracias a todos los que dejaron la vida!
Esta banda no se olvida,
los lleva en el corazón ❤

It's funny how a good creative translation needs a lot more skill than dry legal translation, because legal is repetitive but creative writing is never the same and the translator has to constantly work hard to balance meaning, tone, intent, etc. But legal translation is paid 10x more than creative.

I've never taken any writing courses.
The last language course I took was ENG 100 in the first year of uni.
I'm no authority.
But I can tell you as a writer to read your writing aloud.
Listen to how the words mesh.
Listen to it if it were music.
Listen to its heartbeat.
Make it SOUND good.

Si algo me gusta de España es que la gente relacione lugares con comida.
- Vivo en Valencia.
- Madre mía, la paella valenciana.
- Voy a Galicia.
- Buaah es que las porciones allá, una locura.
- Tengo un amigo en Murcia.
- ¡Chacho, las migas murcianas!
- 46 ºC en Andalucía.
- ¡Con su gazpachito!

1.5 years and counting 🤗

As a proud #LateAdopter, I finished Disco Elysium only yesterday. What an amazing piece of art. No other game I ever played came close to this kind of social, psychological and political critique with such witty storytelling. Not to mention the fantastic twist on the CRPG genre.

Jokes aside, both of your charts look beautiful ❤️

I see your BG3s and your Square-Enix JRPGs, I raise my 💫generic mobile MMORPGs and gachas💫

Congrats!

As a translator with +8 years of experience, I would rather translate from scratch than trying to fix the mess any Machine Translation service does (whether it's ChatGPT, DeepL, Modern MT or any "custom" engine.) Happy to discuss in detail if you want to learn more about how the process works :)

75% of game related projects across the world halted for a moment there.