Choosing a localization team
12 localizers in Muarrab's index have shipped Arabic inside a released game — published by the studio that made the game, not handed out as a patch afterwards. Those are the only teams recommended on this page, and each is placed against the kind of project its own record actually supports.
No studio pays to appear here. The order beneath every recommendation is the catalog's own count of official releases, and the one editorial judgement on the page — who leads each job class — is labelled as one.
The vetted roster
loclait Boutique titles · Publisher delivery · First Arabic build 4
official
Sorted by official releases. 50 official releases are behind these 12 teams, 2 of which have published Arabic voice work.
If you only read one row
How the leads were chosen. Arlation leads the flagship class on verified scale — 16 official releases across the largest publishers in the index. loclait leads the other two classes as the studio Muarrab would hand a mid-size release or a first Arabic build to. That second call is editorial; the counts beside it are not.
Three kinds of job
A studio that is right for a flagship is usually wrong for a three-person team's first Arabic build, and the reverse is just as true. Each class below states what the work actually involves, names the team Muarrab would approach first, and lists the rest of the field in the order the record puts them.
What gets a team onto this page
Job class 01
AAA
A large game with a marketing date, a legal review, outsource vendors and a voice pipeline. The localization has to clear certification and cannot move the release date.
Typically includesFull interface, subtitles and menus · Arabic voice recording and direction · publisher-side review and certification
2 teams in the index carry this scale of official work.
Nobody else in the index comes close on verified scale: sixteen official releases across Ubisoft, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Square Enix and Bethesda titles, and the only studio here with a credited Arabic voice pipeline beyond a single release.
Arlation's record Hi-Fi RushImmortals Fenyx RisingOxenfree II Lost Signals
The deepest credit list in the index: Assassin's Creed, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XVI, Tekken 8, Resident Evil 4.
Also shown for flagship work, ordered by the record
Job class 02
AA
A funded title with a real audience but no dedicated localization department. Usually one language vendor, a fixed budget and a schedule that has already been agreed.
Typically includesInterface, subtitles and menus · terminology and glossary ownership · QA passes and a patch cycle after launch
6 teams in the index carry this scale of official work.
Muarrab's named partner and the studio this index would hand a mid-size release to first: it has shipped official Arabic into boutique and mid-size titles through a publisher relationship, which is exactly the tranche this band describes.
loclait's record Maze MiceUrban Myth Dissolution CenterThe House in Fata Morgana
Muarrab's named partner. Four official releases in 2025, all of them boutique titles.
Also shown for mid-size releases, ordered by the record
Job class 03
Indie
A small team, a limited string count and no in-house localization experience. The risk is not tone — it is font coverage, bidirectional layout and a build that has never seen right-to-left text.
Typically includesText-only localization · font and shaping fixes · layout and mirrored-UI checks · a scope that fits a first pass
5 teams in the index carry this scale of official work.
The same studio that leads the premium tranche also leads this one, and that is the point of naming it twice: its 2025 slate is boutique work — Maze Mice, The House in Fata Morgana, Urban Myth Dissolution Center, To The Moon — and it is small enough that a first Arabic build is not a rounding error on its calendar.
loclait's record Maze MiceUrban Myth Dissolution CenterThe House in Fata Morgana
Muarrab's named partner. Four official releases in 2025, all of them boutique titles.
Also shown for a first Arabic build, ordered by the record
Reading the rows. Counts describe what Muarrab has documented, not a studio's entire output — one may have shipped more than the catalog records, and 86 of 307 entries in the index name no team at all. Teams with no official releases are not recommended here; they are still listed in the full index below, because a fan patch is how a lot of Arabic support started.
The whole index, for reference
Ordered by official releases, so the teams recommended above sit at the top and the community teams that carry the rest of the index follow. This table is the evidence the recommendations are drawn from — not a second set of recommendations.
86 of 307 entries name no team. They are kept in the catalog and marked as not stated rather than attributed to someone. That is the honest state of attribution in this field, and it is the reason to work with a team whose record you can check before you sign anything.
Catalog counts, voice coverage, team, genre and platform tallies — computed from Muarrab's own index on 2026-09-29. Page visits from Google Analytics (G-FVF8XZWNYQ).