Best Game Localization Companies (2026)

The best fit depends on your languages, your platforms and whether you need voice, not on a single ranking. As of 14 November 2026, 47 companies in this directory offer game localization. Companies on this list include Keywords Studios, Side and GlobalStep. Shortlist three that cover your target languages in house, then compare how each gives translators context and runs localization QA in the build.

Translation is normally billed per source word, at about $0.07 to $0.20 per language for games on published vendor figures, with Japanese and the Nordic languages at the top and Russian at the bottom. Localization QA is billed hourly at about $30 to $60, and voice recording per line or recorded hour. These come from vendors, not from the listings. The game localization cost guide breaks them down by language, and the localization cost calculator prices a word count per language from vendors’ published game rates.

A dedicated localization company usually offers more languages and deeper linguistic QA for the price. A multi-service vendor suits a project that also buys QA, audio or voice from the same supplier, because one contract covers the handoffs between them. Either way, ask who translates each language and who tests it in the build.

Companies that publish their rates or keep minimum fees low suit a small budget best. Level Up Translation says it works with indie studios, charges a €50 minimum project management fee and no other minimum, and quoted 9 to 12 euro cents a word for its most common languages in a 2019 article. Allcorrect Games publishes its price list at €0.06 to €0.17 a word and says it applied its minimum fee to seven of 19,000 orders last year. DRAKX, which calls itself technology-driven, says in a LinkedIn post that it charges €0.08 per source word per language with QA included, and 23 Studios runs an indie program called IndieSync. At 10,000 words in four languages, expect about $4,100 to $6,280 before testing.

Several name AAA work on their own sites. Altagram publishes a case study on Black Myth: Wukong, Allcorrect Games lists Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor and Apex Legends, and INLINGO Games describes its LQA on Space Marine 2. Side, Keywords Studios and QLOC also state AAA experience on their localization service pages. These are the vendors' own claims, so check them against the game's credits. Ask which languages and which team the credit covers: Allcorrect's Jedi: Survivor credit, for example, is English to Korean only.

Pick a vendor that can show a named project at that scale and explain how it runs every language at once. Named examples include Outward in 20 languages at LocalizeDirect, GigaBash in 19 at Level Up Translation and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 in 16 at Allcorrect Games. GlobalStep pitches simultaneous launches, and Keywords Studios describes follow-the-sun workflows across time zones. Budget about $53,500 to $93,000 for 40,000 words in 12 languages with LQA, before voice. Ask how they handle strings that change after translation, because every late line goes back through every language.

Choose by market, because Japan, Korea and China need different teams. Studio EIM is a Korean game audio studio working since 1999 that does Korean, Chinese and Japanese voice work. CCJK Technology focuses on Asian languages, and Side has audio studios in Shanghai and Tokyo. Allcorrect Games lists F1 24 into Japanese and Apex Legends into Korean. On published vendor figures, Japanese runs $0.11 to $0.20 a word, Korean $0.10 to $0.18 and Simplified Chinese $0.10 to $0.15. Insist on native testers, because Allcorrect warns that Japanese players notice fonts meant for Chinese.

For multilingual game voice, the broadest coverage stated on the pages we read is at Altagram, with over 13,000 voice actors in over 30 languages, and Keywords Studios, which covers 50+ languages for audio. Side lists audio studios in six cities, and INLINGO Games says it has voiced more than 150 projects in over 20 languages. Keywords' Los Angeles studios are set up for dubbing and voiceover. For animation, CCC International lists dubbing for anime and film. These are vendor statements rather than a ranking, so ask for a sample in your target language.

Several state it directly. Altagram says it has 1,200 native-speaking specialists working in more than 60 languages, and LocalizeDirect says it works with 500+ native-speaking linguists across 65+ language pairs. Testronic describes native-language testers across 40 languages, and Level Up Translation works in 25+ languages. Allcorrect Games says its translators are native speakers living where the language is spoken. Ask which languages are staffed in house and which are subcontracted, because a headline number can mix the two.

Full-service vendors cover all three under one contract. Altagram names localization, voice-over and culturalization, 23 Studios names culturalization, script adaptation, voice-over and LQA, and Side names translation, audio localization and localization QA in house. If you mean software, OneSky sells a translation management platform with human translators on top. A vendor is the better fit for a voiced game, because one script drives translation, casting and recording. A platform suits a live game that ships text updates often.

This directory doesn't rate vendors, and we found no independent rating of game localization companies that compares them on the same measure. The public signals are named case studies, credits in the games themselves and industry awards. Testronic lists a 2024 award for best QA and localization provider, and Side lists a win for best localization and QA provider. Awards are vendor-reported here, so check them. The stronger test is a reference from a producer on a game like yours, plus a paid sample in your hardest language. Featured listings sit at the top of this page and are labelled.

An audit is a short paid LQA pass plus a review of your translated strings, and you can buy one by the hour. At Transphere's band of $30 to $60 an hour, 10 hours of testing costs $300 to $600 per language, and 10 hours per target language is what Allcorrect books in its own RPG example. Allcorrect's US price list puts editing and proofreading at $0.07 to $0.09 a word, so reviewing 10,000 words costs about $700 to $900 per language. Level Up Translation says it edits translations made by fans or other companies after assessing the work. Ask for a fixed fee on a sample before you commit to the whole game.

Judge an LQA vendor on who tests, what they check and how they scope the hours. Testers should be native speakers with experience of your genre: INLINGO Games says it wouldn't put a mobile-only tester on a AAA shooter. Coverage should include text in context, on-screen defects such as overflow, cultural issues and voice and subtitle sync, as Altagram and Testronic both list. Ask for a regression pass after fixes, a per-language hourly rate in writing, and an hours estimate based on a playthrough. Published rates run about $30 to $60 an hour, and a sample bug report tells you more than a sales call.