Game Localization Specialist
Mariia
Pshenichnikova
Bringing games and stories to life across cultures
Helping studios adapt worlds, dialogue, and humor so players and readers everywhere feel at home.
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PhD in Literature
Proofreader
Translator
Game Localization
Specialist
Mariia
Pshenichnikova
Bringing games and stories to life across cultures
Bringing games and stories to life across cultures
so players and readers everywhere feel at home.
Bringing games and stories to life across cultures so players and readers everywhere feel at home.
Helping studios adapt worlds, dialogue, and humor so players and readers everywhere feel at home.
Explore Projects
Discuss Your Game
PhD in Literature
Proofreader
Translator

VIDEO GAME LOCALIZATION

Translation

26k

Translation | Proofreading

32k

Proofreading

12k

Proofreading

12k

Translation

65k

Translation

3,5k

Translation

10k

Translation

41k

Translation
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Narrative design | Translation | Proofreading
8k
Translation | Proofreading
13k
Translation | Proofreading
3k
Proofreading
19k
Translation | Proofreading
14k
Translation
9k
Proofreading
6k
Translation
49k
Proofreading
30k
Translation
16k
Translation
6k
Translation | Proofreading | Project management
42k
Proofreading
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
42k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
RPG
Adventure
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
6k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Indie
Puzzle
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
16k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
30k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
49k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Strategy
RPG
Discuss Your Game
About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
6k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
PvP
Indie
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
9k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Strategy
Card
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
14k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
Discuss Your Game
About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
19k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
Discuss Your Game
About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
3k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Sports
Action
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
13k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Arcade
Roguelite
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About
Working on an NDA-protected title, focusing on tone, character voice, and narrative consistency. Details will be available after release.
NDA
Word Count
8k
Loc Team
NDA
Language Pairs
Puzzle
Mobile
Discuss Your Game
About
A very special indie project that allowed me to combine my linguistic and literary expertise as a narrative designer, translator, proofreader, and LQA specialist. Together with Association The Project, we're working on a game with a powerful message.
The Broken Timepice
Word Count
10k
solo
Loc Team
Language Pairs
Horror
Survival
Discuss Your Game
About
Worked on a major AAA title with an outstanding team. I was primarily responsible for translating side quests, with the main challenge being to preserve the game's tone and style.
007 First Light
Loc Team
Testronic
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
Discuss Your Game
About
This project required a great deal of creativity to bring imaginary creatures to life. Together with the excellent linguists at Fugu, we rose to the challenge in each of our languages.
Voidling Bound
Word Count
26k
Loc Team
Studio Fugu
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
Discuss Your Game
About
Proofreading another translator's work is always a delicate balance: respecting their choices while ensuring accuracy and consistency. A great collaboration with Sasha Kisina on this old-school game.
Angeline Era
Word Count
32k
Loc Team
Dragonbaby
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
Discuss Your Game
About
Proofreading another translator's work is always a delicate balance: respecting their choices while ensuring accuracy and consistency. A great collaboration with Oleksii Tsapov on this old-school game.
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance
Word Count
12k
Loc Team
Quantic Lab
Language Pairs
Adventure
Action
Discuss Your Game
About
Working on projects that remind humanity of our biggest threat — ourselves — is inspiring. Translating such topics feels like sending a message to many people and helping make the world better.
The Last Caretaker
Word Count
7k
Loc Team
Testronic
Language Pairs
Indie
Shooter
Adventure
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About
One of my biggest projects, with many challenges: extensive fact-checking, research, consulting transliteration rules, encyclopedias — and now players around the world can build their own news empire in the 1930s.
News Tower
Word Count
65k
Loc Team
Quantic Lab
Language Pairs
Strategy
Tycoon
Simulator
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About
This game has a clear ecological message, and the goal was to raise awareness without sounding moralizing. Translation is about choosing the right words — finding them is my main focus.
The Sword of the Sea
Word Count
3,5k
Loc Team
Altagram
Language Pairs
Indie
Adventure
Discuss Your Game
About
The main focus in any genre, especially strategy games, is clarity. They demand a lot of player attention, so the translator must ease immersion. As with every project, I paid extra attention to genre-specific features.
Dawn Apart
Word Count
10k
Loc Team
Dragonbaby
Language Pairs
Strategy
Simulator
Discuss Your Game
About
A challenging project involving an uncommon language pair for game localization (Russian to French), but also one of my favorite areas of expertise.
Pioner
Word Count
41k
Loc Team
Niki Studio
Language Pairs
MMORPG
Shooter
Stories deserve to be understood,
not just translated
If you’re looking for someone who treats every line with care — I’m right here to help you.
Mariia Pshenichnikova
Game Localization Specialist

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