LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization

Like guns? 🔫 Hate goblins? 😈 Boy, have we got a game for you. Guns ‘n Goblins from Lance and SoulGame is an incremental horde survivor FPS you won’t want to put down. And LocQuest brought the carnage in 13 languages. Demo out now on Steam ⚙️ store.steampowered.com/app/881940/G...

In a world of AI gameslop, let’s actually have some fun. 🔥 Three demos we think you should check out this Next Fest: 1️⃣ Guns ‘n Goblins 2️⃣ DreadHaven: The Last Colony 3️⃣ Night Hike And all enjoyable in a variety of languages thanks to LocQuest. Fighting gameslop, one loc at a time. 🛡️

One of the most challenging localization projects we ever took at @locquest.bsky.social, but it was all worth it for that sweet forensic science credit! Congrats to the whole team @thekillingstone.com, you guys deserve all the success in the world 💖

The Killing Stone, starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social is out NOW! Can you beat the Devil at his own game? 🕯️🩸🪨 😈 youtu.be/tO1FtKzrSG4?... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/... Sony: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

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An anti-colonial and anti-racist confrontation of Lovecraft's work. Through the eyes of a penguin 🐧 Penguin Colony is what LocQuest was made for. 🛡️ Sit down, get (un)comfortable, and wake up to the horrors before you. Now on Steam ⚙️ Soon on Switch 2 🔄 ORIGAME DIGITAL @fellowtraveller.games

One thing that bugs us? 🐛 Crappy loc. Thankfully Alchemy Sheep (@megafikus.bsky.social) and @outersloth.com are bringing you: 🪲 Game is Full of Bugs 🪲 Fully localized by LocQuest in 8 languages. Bug out now with the demo on Steam ⚙️

Do you want to win the battle? Or do you want to win the war? ⚔️ The latest from Sphere Studios and @goblinzstudio.com has just come to early access: Gridlords And LocQuest once again defended ethical localization in 10 languages 🛡️ Fight fire with fire(power), now on Steam ⚙️

The side-idler with plenty of fish in the sea 🐟🐡🐠 Soggy Beans is @ratmode.games’ newest realease. Fish will come, fish will go. Take photos, collect beans, decorate your seascape, then relax or do other things while your friends swim by in this calming side-idler. Now on Steam! Cool beans 🫘

Your keys to the kingdom 🗝️🏰 Next Reign: Kingdom is a new indie incremental idler from Tiny Tulip Games that has got us royally addicted. 👑 Available in 10 languages with LocQuest localisation & LQA. Now on Steam ⚙️ (💸 special introductory offer until 10 September!)

The only “Plague” we’re concerned with in this industry 🦠 Play as Sophia, a fierce young plunderer, on the run and determined to uncover the secrets of her past in Resonance: #APlagueTale Legacy. LocQuest worked with @focus-entmt.com to LQA the game in 16 languages! 🛡️ Get it now 🔥

Devs, start taking notes 📝 Our founders @oreli.bsky.social and @guidogameloc.bsky.social, along with @cfernandez.me, sat down with @bryantfrancis.me, Senior Editor at @gamedeveloper.bsky.social to talk all things gameloc. 👾 🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, or Podbean

Don’t miss it! 🛡️ LocQuest’s Aurélie Perrin will be taking the stage at @gamescomdev.bsky.social for a roundtable hosted by the IGDA Localization SIG. Game Loc RenAIssance: Translating the Hype 🗓️ Tuesday, August 25, 2026 ⏰ 4:45 PM to 6:15 PM (CEST)

You know we can’t miss this one 🇩🇪👾 Catch us next month at the world’s biggest gaming get together, gamescom! Developers, publishers, and defenders of all things human in gaming, we want to hear from you! 📣 Find Aurélie Perrin and Christian Hoffman on MeetToMatch, or send us a DM to arrange 🛡️

Should you localize your game? 🤔 Choosing a market for localization feels kind of like playing Russian (or Spanish, Chinese, Arabic…) Roulette. The good news? 🗞️ There’s an easier, more cost-effective way forward: localizing your Steam store page. Read more: locquest.com/localizing-s...

Find us in the UK! 🇬🇧 We’re so looking forward to @developconference.com this month. Who else is gonna be there? If you’re a developer or publisher who’s pushing against the grain and prioritising the super against the slop, we’d love to chat. 💬

Forget what you know about farming sims. 🌾 It's time to try Cropdeck, the farming roguelite deckbuilder from @madheadbump.bsky.social. Strategic, satisfying, and delightfully wholesome. 🧑‍🌾 And thanks to our green thumb, you can plant in five different languages. 🌱 Get it now on Steam! ⚙️

This ain’t the hungry little caterpillar 🐛 FEED THE QUEEN is a new colony sim from Quiétude 🫐 LocQuest sunk our teeth into this juicy game and localized it into 8 different languages. Want to dig in? Crawl on over to Steam now! 🐜

The talk of the tavern just got a little louder 📣 Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker 💭 A new standalone game in the Tavern Talk universe thanks to @gentletrolldevs.bsky.social! LocQuest localized this dreamy game into 3 different languages. Drink up on Steam and Nintendo Switch now! 🍻

Creepy crawly cozy commerce! 🐞🛍️ Budgie's Bug Shop is a short incremental game about catching bugs and running a shop filled with parakeets. Upgrade equipment, purchase game-breaking abilities, and maximize the profits of your Budgie-powered empire! 🐛🐦 Grab your net and get it now on Steam ⚙️

The life sim game you’ve all been waiting for 🤗 @paralives.com is about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you? LocQuest’s story took us through over ❗️1,300 queries❗️ in 8 different languages. Now available in Early Access on Steam!

Come say bonjour in Lille ! 🇫🇷 We’re headed to @gamecamp.fr to meet up with industry experts and see the latest and greatest. We’re super keen to chat to ✅ developers ✅ publishers ✅ and the coolest cats in gaming 🛡️ Book a chat with us here: app.meettomatch.com/gamecamp2026...

How about this for a creature feature? 🦝 @therat.zone have released their new game: Creature Kitchen. And here at LocQuest, we were really cooking with gas. 🔥 We localized the game into 10 languages, including handwriting and in-game textures. Crawl on over to Steam to get it now! 🐦‍⬛

Every ending is just a new beginning 🐍 Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, the LatAm folklore-inspired point-and-click puzzle story from Galla and @fellowtraveller.games is getting a new chapter: the Closure Edition. ⚰️ LocQuest brought the game to life (or death) in LatAm Spanish. 🪦

Batten down the hatches. Your next cozy collector game has just landed ⛵️ Collector’s Cove from @voodooduckgames.bsky.social was localized into 8 languages with LocQuest on deck. Available now on Steam, Epic Games, PS5, and Switch! 🦕

We’ve been cooking up something good over here 🧑‍🍳 Little Chef: Cozy Cooking, the new game from devs julien & érika, is a physics-based cooking game full of discovery and playful chaos. LocQuest localized the game and Steam page, easy as pie 🥧 Now on Steam! ⚙️

A (slightly) different type of GGs in this latest release from @sandcastlesstudio.bsky.social 🎮 The gnowledgeable gnomes at LocQuest localized Gnaughty Gnomes into seven languages! Available now on Steam, if you're feeling gnaughty! ⚙️

Ethical localization wins again! 🏆 Last night, THREE LocQuest localized games were nominees at the 2026 @pegasesjeuvideo.bsky.social Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees. We couldn’t be more honored to have worked on these games. 🛡️

When life gives you lemons, it’s time to party! 🍋🎉 LocQuest worked with indie dev @pataya.bsky.social to make sure Judofuri’s localization didn’t go pear-shaped, working on 6 languages. 🍐 The cherry on top? Judofuri is available now on Steam 🍒

Also, it almost goes without saying since they're so consistent, but really solid localization work from @locquest.bsky.social ✨

LocQuest did an amazing job and @guidogameloc.bsky.social very kindly stuck with us in the trenches during some of the more challenging / strange requests and issues we ran into!

Good vs Evil 😇😈 Ethical vs Unethical ⚖️💰 Quality vs Slop ✅🤖 Ask ye these three questions whilst battling through Question Games’ self-published @thekillingstone.com Localization was a feat unto itself: masses of words and four tongues traversing four phases. 🛡️ Play, if you dare ⚙️

This is one cozy, colorful, adventure 🎨 What surrounds us? 🤔 Come find out and restore balance to an abstract and colorful ecosystem where every individual matters. LocQuest worked with indie dev @salty-gamedev.bsky.social to localize What Surrounds Us? into 4 languages. Demo is out now! ⚙️

Metroidvania fans, rejoice 🎉 The sequel to the beautifully-set, award-winning, fire-fighting, side-scrolling platformer Nocturnal is nearly here. (Localized by LocQuest in 8 languages) 🔥 Shoutout to Sunnyside Games for this fun one! Demo out now on Steam, full game releasing soon! 🔜

And of course, a smashing job as always from @locquest.bsky.social 🤙

This month we’re headed to Festival International des Jeux Cannes to immerse ourselves in the latest in the industry. 🇫🇷 While we’re there, we’d love to meet up with: 👾 Creators 👾 Distributors & publishers 👾 Marketers 👾 and translators If you’re there, drop us a DM! 📩

✅ Puzzle ✅ Time & space ✅ Cute as hell ✅ And the demo is out now! Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a whimsical spirit world. LocQuest paired up with @enchantedworks.nl to localize the demo into 10 languages. Get it now! ✨

@fanatical.com have dropped an amazing bundle benefitting @safeinourworld.org, a charity for mental health awareness in gaming. And it includes 3 LocQuest creds: ⭐️ Minami Lane ⭐️ Wordatro! ⭐️ Frog Detective Ethical gaming and ethical localization. For everyone 🛡️ www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/sa...

Hope this is what @on-together.bsky.social and @futurefriendsgames.com had in mind when they launched 😅 Here’s a handful of our talented localizers, taking a class picture together 📸 (Very important work) Remote work is far from lonely. And we're happy that we can give our folks a space to hang 🤗

🚀🐀 It’s a rat race! This one sure had us cheesin’. 😊 LocQuest worked with solo dev Gagonfe to localize Rocket Rats into 6 languages. We’ve been smelling some rats in gaming recently. Luckily, there are still devs out there that care about fair, ethical localization. 🛡️

🚨 Flagged for overwhelming cuteness. Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café is a cozy and relaxing decoration and rhythm game where you manage a café and befriend cute animals. LocQuest partnered with solo dev @anaiis.bsky.social for an ethical localization that is ✨so✨ kawaii. ☕️ Available now on Steam!

🐞🪲🐛 Sorry, we were just starting our collection. 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.

⭐️ 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 🥂

⭐️ 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. ✨

⭐️ THE LOCQUEST SPONSORS OF 2025 ⭐️ If you’re looking for the studios, developers, and publishers that care about ✨quality✨ localization done by humans, look no further than the wonderful clients we worked with last year.

🏆 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!

Update is LIVE early! AND we are in the Steam Winter Sale ❄️🍜 Kokoro Kitchen is just $5.99 🤯 50% off!! Perfect to cuddle up with this holiday season 🍡🍵 Special thanks to @locquest.bsky.social for getting the translation done so quickly and even one day early!! 🥰 #gamedev #indiegame #cozygame

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. 🪄