The Ukrainian language will appear in the action-shooter ARC Raiders upon release. The game will be localized with text, and it will become one of 19 officially supported languages.
The Ukrainian language will appear in the action-shooter ARC Raiders upon release. The game will be localized with text, and it will become one of 19 officially supported languages.
As GameDev DOU reports, the availability of Ukrainian localization was revealed on the ARC Raiders page on the Epic Games Store. It states that the game will have English voice acting and text translation into several languages, including Ukrainian. For fans of games with a deep storyline and cooperative elements, this is another example of how large studios are increasingly taking the Ukrainian audience into account.
This is a multiplayer third-person shooter in the extraction genre. Players take on the role of Raiders who explore the surface of a post-apocalyptic world, gather resources, complete missions, avoid the threat of mechanized ARC machines, and build their own shelter in the underground city of Speranza. The goal of the game is not only survival, but also development — from looting to improving equipment and strengthening the shelter.
The official release date is set for October 30, 2025. This was first announced during Summer Game Fest 2025, where a new gameplay trailer was also shown. The project is being released on multiple platforms at once: PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
The game is being developed by Swedish studio Embark Studios, founded in 2018 by former DICE CEO Patrick Söderlund. His previous team is known for the Battlefield series, but Embark positions itself as a studio with a new vision: «we want to make games that are unlike anything else out there.»
The appearance of the Ukrainian language in such projects is a result of the growing visibility of the Ukrainian audience in the global gaming space. Over the past few years, dozens of developers have begun to resort to localization at release: from indie studios to large AAA publishers. This strengthens the role of Ukraine not only as a market, but also as a full-fledged cultural player in the industry.
We also published an article about how Vitaliy, a Ukrainian IT guy who joined the Defense Forces and is currently serving in the Marine Corps in the Unmanned Systems Battalion, created the website «Game Haven.» It promotes Ukrainian localization and provides a personalized report on the user’s game library.
