Game Localization Services

LQA checks language inside the game. Testers verify accuracy and tone, find UI truncation and overlap, font and encoding issues, subtitle timing and audio sync, and cultural concerns, then log bugs and confirm the fixes.

Plan target languages and scope, export content with a localization kit, translate and transcreate key strings, adapt UI and assets, record voice-over if needed, run LQA in builds, fix issues, reintegrate and release, with day-one support for patches. The IGDA localization best-practices guide covers the planning side in detail.

Text localization at Tomedes starts from about $0.08 per word, depending on language pair, with voice-over recording, LQA testing and DTP or graphic adaptation priced separately. Cost also depends on word count, languages, UI changes and LQA rounds, and a CAT analysis of new words and repetitions gives an exact estimate within 15 minutes.

It depends on size and the number of languages. As a guide, a professional translator produces around 1,500 to 2,000 words per day, with an editor for quality, and LQA, bug fixing and build cycles add time on top.

Typical tiers are text only, text plus UI, full localization (text, UI, voice-over and cultural assets), and a marketing package for store pages, trailers and the website. Choose the tier that matches the market's impact.

Plan early, simplify or remove low-value strings, reuse translation memories and term bases, prioritize key markets, localize the store page first to validate demand, and use machine translation with human editing for non-critical content.

Store pages, screenshots, trailers, patch notes, help center articles and community posts. These assets drive discovery and conversions.

Tomedes works with Unity, Unreal, JSON, XML, CSV and .po files, spreadsheets and common engine exports. Ask for a CAT analysis with word counts and repetitions to scope budget and timeline.

Translation conveys meaning. Transcreation rewrites lines to keep humor, emotion and style, so dialogue and item names feel native.

Yes, for non-critical text. About 7 in 10 Tomedes gaming assignments since October 2024 started from a machine-translation draft that a human linguist post-edited under ISO 18587:2017, while story, dialogue and humor get full human work to protect immersion. A hybrid workflow balances speed, cost and quality.

Professional voice actors record in the target language. Casting, direction and post-production keep the tone on brand and the timing in sync with cutscenes and gameplay.

Game translation converts the text into another language, while localization also adapts UI, graphics, voice-over and cultural references and tests the result in the build. Tomedes provides both, and for text-first projects see video game translation services.