🏆 Best Localizer

STOVE Indie Awards 2025 — Best Localizer

30+ Games

Indie titles shipped on Steam, Switch & console

100% In-Build LQA

Every string verified in the running build — not just a spreadsheet

$0.06 / word

Transparent flat rates + free Korea rating (GRAC) check

Services & Capabilities

Built for game text — not generic copy

No mechanical string swaps. Translators who speak fluent gamer finish your Korean inside the actual build.

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01Game-Native

Game-native translation

Beyond literal translation: character voice, in-world lore, and the slang and feel Korean players expect — woven in naturally.

  • Menu & system UI fitted to character limits and line breaks
  • Glossary for fantasy & sci-fi proper nouns and terms
  • Distinct character voices and scene-by-scene emotional tone
Translation details →
02In-Build Testing

LQA in the real build

We leave the spreadsheet and play your actual build, catching truncated UI, context errors, and broken fonts line by line.

  • Text overflow and broken UI layout checks
  • Context consistency across quest & dialogue triggers
  • Korean font legibility, letter- and line-spacing tuning
LQA process →
03Korea Market Launch

GRAC rating & Korea launch consulting

A free pre-check for Korea's GRAC age rating and for launching on local stores such as STOVE Indie.

  • GRAC rating fees, process, and submission guide
  • Upfront risk review for IARC and self-rating
  • Press kit outreach to Korean indie communities & media
Free consult →
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From The Desk

Latest Releases & Deep Insights

New games we localized, plus in-depth editorials on the Korean games market and its rating system.

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✒️Editorial & Insights

Deep Dives & Policy
REGULATION2026-09-24

The Dark Magic of the Mosaic: How Censorship Pixelation Made the World Crueler and More Obscene

From blurring ordinary kitchen knives into horrific murder weapons to East Asian penal codes mandating the physical destruction of adult creative works, this essay explores the cognitive paradox of pixelation censorship, examines global regulatory regimes from Japan and Korea to China and the West, and argues why content rating must isolate access rather than butcher creators' screens.

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REGULATION2026-09-11

Paying to Be Censored: South Korea's History of Media Censorship and the Absurdity of Game Rating Fees

Tracing South Korea's history of state media censorship from post-liberation to the digital age, this essay examines how games inherited the stigma of 'delinquent amusement,' and why forcing creators to pay millions of won for mandatory pre-censorship must be abolished.

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GUIDE2026-08-31

Why Game Localization Still Needs Human Localizers and LQA in the AI Era

While LLMs have revolutionized translation speed and cost, in-game immersion and build stability still depend on human localizers and in-build LQA. Here is how indie developers can build the most efficient hybrid localization pipeline.

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GUIDE2026-08-11

Combining Google Gemini Context Caching: AI Pre-Learns In-Game Text to Extract Glossaries, Powering End-to-End Localization & LQA Workbench 'Lexicontexta' Beta Launch

The Perfect Fusion of Lexicon and Context — Overcoming Conventional MT Limitations with a 2-Pass Automated Glossary Pipeline, PM-Dedicated Source QA & Sampling Inspections, and Regression Translation for Temperature Control

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Portfolio

Games we helped ship

English → Korean translation and LQA for indie games — localization that holds up in the build. Collaborations marked as CO.

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Drova – Forsaken Kin

translation(co)/lqa

Lunacid

translation / lqa

Eternal Strands

translation(co)/lqa

No, I'm not a Human

translation / lqa

Research Story

translation / lqa

Buckshot Roulette

translation(partial)

Rogue Glitch Ultra

translation / lqa

Altered Alma

translation / lqa

Dungeon Defenders Awakened

translation / lqa

Tanuki Pon's Summer

translation

Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs

translation / lqa

Burden Street Station

translation / lqa

Also: ORX · Gimmiko · Simulakros · Troleu · Hook & Loop · and more

Tooling

Lexicontexta™

AI localization & LQA workbench for games and documents.

Lexicontexta AI localization workbench

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