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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 01/09/2026

🏆 Your deck plays itself in the auto card battler Grail from @sokpop.co! Build your deck wisely and watch the synergies and combos go wild. To make sure the cards are readable, we have drafted our own deck of linguists:

Musketeer Ratagnan readies his weapon in front of a giant tree and some cards falling through the air. The title Grail is superimposed.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 21/08/2026

🍫 Are you headed to gamescom 2026 in Cologne? So are we! You can find us at the Netherlands pavilion. Feel free to plan a meeting with us to talk shop about all things localization!

MEET US AT

gamescom

Hall 4.1, booth A021/B030
(part of the Netherlands Pavilion)

You may run into our friend Tony. → [image of Local Heroes/All The Way branded chocolate bars by Tony's Chocolonely]

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 04/08/2026

🚶‍➡️ Let's hang out with friends and get lost in a big world! It's Big Walk by the honking friends of developer @househouse.com, published by @panic.com. We joined this walk with many, many languages and linguists:

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 16/07/2026

🧜 An impossible murder aboard a very strange submarine? That sounds like a mystery to be solved by Grimoire and Sally! The Mermaid Mask is the sequel to Tangle Tower made by the rather adventurous @sfbdim.bsky.social and @sfbtom.bsky.social of SFB Games!

Grimoire and Sally are standing behind an opened cauldron with a flashlight and a book. A strange submarine can be seen behind them. The title “The Memaid Mask” is superimposed.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 28/05/2026

👷 Drift your forklifts through the De Nile Shipping warehouse in Crashout Crew! Grab up to four players and maintain order in this new physics-based destructive-chaos game by @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social.

Crashout Crew characters riding forklifts in a weird warehouse with explosions and chickens (and a monkey).

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 22/05/2026

🦇 The Dark Knight minifig returns to explore the studded streets of Gotham in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, published by Warner Bros. Games and developed by Travellers Tales! Dive in and find your favorite Caped Crusader outfit.

LEGO Batman minifig looking menacing, while superimposed on the skyline of Gotham.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 17/04/2026

But we fear these skills may have become a bit... rusty. Awesome that G'AIM'E brings lightguns back to non-CRT displays! Next up: shooting at Point Blank!

The 30th anniversary Time Crisis standee.

A shot of Vincent shooting at the screen showing Time Crisis.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 17/04/2026

🎯 We have received a fun and nostalgic gift from Craig Morrow at Dashine: the G'AIM'E Time Crisis set! Local Hero Vincent has stepped up once again to save the daughter of the president of Sercia with his 30-year-old skills!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 19/03/2026

🏆 Last week during the 2025 IGF awards, two titles of particular interest to us won some accolades: Consume Me & @despelote.game. Both are deeply personal indie games and we are more than honored to have provided localization services for these special titles.

Consume Me
2025 Independent Games Festival
- Grand Prize
- Nuovo Award

Despelote
2025 Independent Games Festival
- Excellence in Audio

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 12/03/2026

🎲 Roll the dice in this turn-based roguelike tactical RPG by our fellow Dutchies at Gamepie! Enjoy the island battles with a claymation art syle with localizations by:

A group of heroes are standing at the ready in a forested environment with a river nearby and a bridge crossing it. They are being challenged by a group of monsters. The title Dobbel Dungeon is placed in the top-right corner.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 05/03/2026

🔧 Coming straight from the yellow Playdate handheld to a Nintendo Switch and computer near you: it's Ratcheteer DX by @shauninman.com! Explore the depths, frozen surfaces, and the Snowcean in this lo-fi adventure published by @panic.com.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 20/11/2025

🌍 Use the latest in gaming technology to get a grip on the inner and outer workings of climate change in Climate Station. Developed and published by Sony interactive Entertainment in collaboration with the United Nations, this PS5 and PlayStation VR2 experience brings complex climate data to life.

Key art of Climate Station showing planet Earth with a temperature data set overlay. High spikes on the northern and southern hemispheres indicate higher temperatures. Behind the globe an abstract collection of coloured bands is visible.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 13/11/2025

🪨 Restore nature as a golem magically brought to life in Unpetrified: Echoes of Nature from Dreamhunt Studio, published by Mindscape Games. You'll meet some cute creatures, colorful locations and mysterious puzzles in this emotional adventure!

A magical golem standing on a cliff with trees, accompanied by a tiny bird, fox and mysterious glowing butterfly, looking out over the mountain range. The title is superimposed over the scene.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 06/11/2025

🕸️ Turn your arachnophobia into arachnophilia with A Webbing Journey by @firetotemgames.bsky.social, published by @futurefriendsgames.com! Be a spider and swing through living rooms as you try to tackle tasks in this spider-sandbox game.

Multiple cartoon spiders having adventures in a room: swinging from a lamp, riding a toast-boat as a pirate, being webbed onto a sinking office chair, surfing an eraser and checking off items on a todo-list. The title A Webbing Journey hangs between them.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 30/10/2025

🎖️ Stratego Online by Wanted 5 Games lets you play the classic game with bombs and spies on your computer or smartphone against anyone in the world! It's a good thing then, that we've got our own army of localizers lined up to make this game as accessible as possible:

The headshots of two 19th century generals in front of a blue tent-opening showing a chair inside. The title Stratego hangs on a red banner between them.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 23/10/2025

🛰️ The character-action title Stellar Blade from Korean developer SHIFTUP and publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment made some waves when it launched on PS5. It later showed protagonist Eve in action-packed combat saving Earth on PC as well!

Protagonist Eve in her combat suit floating upside down in space above the earth, with various energy shots and structures in the background. The title Stellar Blade superimposed over it.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 16/10/2025

💃 Hold on to your socks! Just Dance 2026 Edition is shaking its way onto platforms! Developed by Ubisoft Paris and published by @ubisoft.com, the dance fest returns once more. And dancers of all ages can join in through the localization efforts of our partners InMotion (NL) and Albion (PL).

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 09/10/2025

🏍️ Bend Studio and Sony Interactive Entertainment got back together for the art of motorcycle maintenance and released Days Gone Remastered on PS5 and PC. We provided some zen localization courtesy of our "technical" partners:

Key art of Days Gone Remastered showing the protagonist Deacon with his back turned towards us. Superimposed over it is a group of Freakers in the red glow of a fire behind them.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 02/10/2025

📺 Have you watched all the great content on @blippo.plus already? It's a visual novel, but television! So, it's novel... visual... television...? Regardless, jump into the world of Blip and discover truly alien TV!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 25/09/2025

🍞 Here's a very special project: Consume Me. A very personal journey about food and expectations, hobbled by family, friends, and culture by @qdork.bsky.social. Published by Hexecutable and co-developed with @apthomson.bsky.social, @frogfungus.bsky.social, Violet W-P, and Ken Snyder.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 18/09/2025

🥸 Meet Henry, half a head, with the ability to become any object within their reach! Henry Halfhead is developed by @lululu.games and (co-)published by @popagenda.co. Bet they can't turn into our peculiar localizers for this game:

Key art of Henry Halfhead showing Henry in the middle of a bunch of everyday objects that all feature Henry's eyes and nose in one way or the other.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 04/09/2025

⚔️ Aim for the Nub in Nubs!: Arena, where fast-paced top-down player vs. player combat determines the last one standing. Made by Rangatang and Glowfish Interactive, we managed to throw our following partners into the localization arena for your entertainment: 4-Real (DE), GameLoc (ES), Loc-3 (FR)...

Key art of Nubs!: Arena showing a triplet of Nubs in various colours deploying fish, gnomes, and an ice wand as weaponry. There's also a somewhat injured and smiling star in the background.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 28/08/2025

⚙️ Maintain a thriving town and fight an apocalyptic enemy force? Where do I sign up? In @playlynked.com! This vibrant action-RPG developed by FuzzyBot and publisher @dreamhaven.com is just the ticket! Gather your Unibot friends and defeat the Combot menace...

Key art of Lynked: Banner of the Spark showing a male protagonist and his Unibot companion in front of a world collage showing a peaceful village and a menacing battlefield with a tower and big bad guy projected in the sky.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 21/08/2025

🐐 Have you ever guided a herd of lovable fluffy horned Calicorns? No? Well, now's your chance with Herdling from Swiss developer @okomotive.ch and Oregonian publisher @panic.com!

Key art of Herdling, showing a white mountain range in the background with a herd of Calicorns and protagonist Via in the foreground.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 14/08/2025

💎 Traverse an Iceland-inspired world that ended long ago in Echoes of the End by Myrkur Games and published by Deep Silver. Play as the vestige Ryn and rescue your brother with swordplay, magic and help of her companion Abram.

Key art of Echoes of the End showing characters Ryn and Abram posing battle ready on a rock, with a mountain range showing a broken castle, gigantic glowing crystal, and an active volcano embedded.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 07/08/2025

🧙‍♀️ Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. Rift Riff is a refreshing take on the tower defence genre and a collaboration by @adriaan.games, @simkaart.co, @matthijskoster.com, @franzlazerte.bsky.social, and @professionalpanda.bsky.social. We got the chance to plunder their localizations!

Key art of Rift Riff showing multiple towers, the player character and a drone shooting at resources.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 31/07/2025

🪰 Everybody knows time flies when you're having fun, but nobody has experienced fun quite like in Time Flies! Made by @playables.net and published by @panic.com, you'll have a bucket list of things to do as a fly, but preciously little time before you kick said bucket!

The text “Time Flies” handwritten in pixel-lines with a single fly above it drawn in pixel-art style.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 24/07/2025

🌌 It is time! Congrats to Moonshot Games and @dreamhaven.com for releasing @playwildgate.com, the wild crew-battler in spaaa~ce! And what better way to tackle that localization artifact than with our own out-of-this world crew.

Key art of Wildgate, showing a crew of characters in space moving an artifact, while multiple spaceships hunt them down. A wildgate in the distance opens to escape through.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 17/07/2025

⛰️ Have you peaked already? From @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social and @landfall.se comes this crash-and-climb-to-the-mountaintop co-op experience by Caelan Rashby-Pollock, @thepethen.landfall.se , @galendrew.bsky.social, @bestzorro.bsky.social, @wilnyl.bsky.social, @smashynick.bsky.social, and Erik Skog!

Key art of Peak, showing four mountaineers scaling a cliff and looking ahead to the large mountain peak in the distance.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 10/07/2025

🦸 Save Earth from the Crime Syndicate by building the ultimate squad of DC Super Heroes and DC Super-Villains in DC Worlds Collide by Warner Bros. Games San Francisco! Publisher Warner Bros. Games allowed some of our Local Heroes to team up and add localizations!

Key art of DC Worlds Collide, showing a host of DC Super Heroes and DC Super-Villains, such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Harley Quinn, Lex Luthor, and Catwoman, amongst others.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 03/07/2025

👑 Become the king of kings in the kingdom-building roguelike 9 Kings by Sad Socket! We're very proud to have been chosen by publisher @hoodedhorse.bsky.social to embark on the game's localization campaign.

9 Kings key art, showing an army poised to strike at a hilltop fortress with a gun installation, windmill, glowing orb, and a dragon. A surveying king is holding his banner while biding his time.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 26/06/2025

💸 Thanks to Pocketwatch Games and The Powell Group we provided localization for Monaco 2 on PC: a daring multiplayer heist experience for four players. Plan ahead and sneak away with treasure!

Monaco 2 key art showing the crew planning their next heist at a bar.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 01/05/2025

⚽ Immerse yourself in the streets of Quito, Ecuador, 2001, in @despelote.game, a soccer game about people. This unique slice-of-life game is created by Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena in cooperation with @panic.com. Experience it in DE, EN-US, FR, PT-BR, and ZH-CHS thanks to Pinknoise.

Keyart of Despelote, showing children playing soccer in a street with buildings, people, and a mountain range in the background.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 24/04/2025

🌳 Grab your friends and mobile devices and prepare for a role-playing game night with Sunderfolk! Narrated by a single game master and played with a mobile device, we're delighted to note that you can play in DE, ES, FR, IT, PL, PT-BR and ZH-CHS!

The heroes of Arden standing at the ready against evil, with the title Sunderfolk in the foreground.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 05/02/2025

🎸 With Crypt of the NecroDancer launching almost ten years ago, it's time for a new spin-off: Rift of the NecroDancer by @braceyourselfgames.com! A new rhythm game in which you match the beats to on-screen enemies. Now available in DE, ES, ES-LA, FR, IT, JA, KO, PT-BR, RU, ZH-CHS, and ZH-CHT!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 22/11/2024

With Anne finally in the office, she got the opportunity to taste... *PEANS* in cookie form! Known far and wide from Thank Goodness You're Here, of course! Thanks again @coalsupper.bsky.social and @panic.com !

Anne cautiously tasting her peans cookie.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 18/11/2024

👋 Oh, hi there! We are Local Heroes. An independent localization company for world class local game translation and dubbing services. Some recent titles we've worked on: 🎢 Planet Coaster 2 ⚙️ Lynked: Banner of the Spark 🌷 Grunn 🧹 Harry Potter Quidditch Champions 🫛 Thank Goodness You're Here!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 31/10/2024

🧑‍🚀 Join the roguelite platforming runs deep into hostile alien planets in Cosmocat's Astral Flux. The new Submerged update is now available on PC, with the entire game and all of its free updates also launching on Nintendo Switch! All localized in German, Spanish, and French!

Astrol Flux astronaut blasting at alien enemies in a strange biological environment.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 30/10/2024

🧹 "Up! Uuuuup!" Still not getting your broom to fly into your hand? All good, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is here to allow you to experience flying like a proper witch or wizard. All available in Brazilian Portuguese thanks to the localization efforts of Locsmiths and UniDub Brazil!

Various wizards and witches playing quidditch.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 29/10/2024

🤖 Have you already played Lynked: Banner of the Spark in early access? Rescue friendly bots, defeat evil bots in roguelite runs, and partake in village building! We're excited to provide localization for this title with the help of 4-Real, GameLoc, Pinknoise, Loc-3, Localize It!, and Locsmiths!

Lynked - Banner of the Spark artwork showing a group of humans and allied bots fighting against a horde of evil bots.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 08/10/2024

🌼 Come to Grunn by @sokpop.co and become a gardener in the quaint Dutch countryside. Just don't go out after dark. Also, try not to die. Luckily we've got all these languages ready to help you out: DE, ES, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, PL, PT-BR, ZH-CHS, and ZH-CHT!

GRUNN on a garden backdrop with grass, flowers, a garden gnome, and a tombstone with a bloodied shovel in front of it.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 27/09/2024

🟩 In Shapez 2 by @tobsprgames.bsky.social, you deliver shapes. Create assembly lines and make shapes into *other* shapes! That might sound abstract, but it's highly addictive, trust us. You can also trust us on delivering localized versions in DE, ES, FR, KO, PL, PT-BR, RU, TH, and TR!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 07/08/2024

🥧 Slap yourself through the quaint little village of Barnsworth in Coal Supper and Panic, Inc.'s collaboration Thank Goodness You're Here! We couldn't have been more delighted to have been providing the localization in DE, ES, ES-LA, FR, JA, KO, PT-BR, RU, ZH-CHS, and ZH-CHT!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 05/08/2024

🧩 Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is out! Thanks to our our perfectly fitting partners, this tile sliding adventure will have you puzzling in German, Spanish, Latin-American Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese!

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 25/06/2024

📸 This one's special! Back in the day when we were still U-TRAX, we poured our very souls into Beyond Good & Evil for Ubisoft. To be working on it once more for Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese feels like coming home. 😍 Have a go and uncover the new surprises!

Jade and her friends sneaking through a corridor.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 04/06/2024

🖱️ Click, click, click your way to victory in clickyland from @sokpop.co. It's tower defense but... you can only make a limited amount of clicks in the game per day! Can you survive for 100 days? Available now in DE, ES, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, PL, PT-BR, ZH-CHS, and ZH-CHT.

An enemy in clickyland being clicked upon by a huge cursor.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 10/05/2024

🐈‍⬛ It's time to claw your way through the urban jungle in Little Kitty, Big City from Double Dagger Studio! Available in Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish through the magic of our cat-tastic localization kitties!

A little kitty pouncing to explore the big city, together with an orange cat, a raccoon and multiple bird chicks.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 26/04/2024

⚔️ Rise up as a medieval lord in the early access phase of this strategic city builder game that kind of does it all! Made by Slavic Magic and published by @hoodedhorse.bsky.social, we're paying tribute by providing a Dutch translation made possible by Erik Nusselder and Edmee Sierts.

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Local Heroes Worldwide @local-heroes.com · 25/04/2024

🦀 Crab your way past your enemies to retrieve your shell in Another Crab's Treasure by (the perfectly named) developer @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social! We're happy to have provided their localizations for DE , ES-LA, FR, IT, JA, KO, RU, PT-BR, ZH-CHS, and ZH-CHT! Hiya, let's crab! 🍴

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