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Steam News17 November 20257mo ago

World of Goo Becoming Worldlier

The last of goo balls didn’t seem to know that the fantastic World of Goo… has just learned to speak a few new languages!

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addedThe last of goo balls didn’t seem to know that the fantastic World of Goo… has just learned to speak a few new languages!
addedWorld of Goo has been officially upgraded to include brand-new translations in Russian, Simplified Chinese, and — for the first time ever — Ukrainian! All thanks to the tireless (and possibly goo-covered) efforts of our excellent translation community.
changedTranslating a deeply American-centric game like World of Goo is no easy feat. How does one take all the internet puns, double-meaning jokes, and corporate-speak nonsense and have it make sense in another language? What does YAMAKO mean in Chinese? How can we know?

World of Goo changes

addedThe last of goo balls didn’t seem to know that the fantastic World of Goo… has just learned to speak a few new languages!
addedWorld of Goo has been officially upgraded to include brand-new translations in Russian, Simplified Chinese, and — for the first time ever — Ukrainian! All thanks to the tireless (and possibly goo-covered) efforts of our excellent translation community.
changedTranslating a deeply American-centric game like World of Goo is no easy feat. How does one take all the internet puns, double-meaning jokes, and corporate-speak nonsense and have it make sense in another language? What does YAMAKO mean in Chinese? How can we know?

The last of goo balls didn’t seem to know that the fantastic World of Goo… has just learned to speak a few new languages!

World of Goo has been officially upgraded to include brand-new translations in Russian, Simplified Chinese, and — for the first time ever — Ukrainian! All thanks to the tireless (and possibly goo-covered) efforts of our excellent translation community.

Translating a deeply American-centric game like World of Goo is no easy feat. How does one take all the internet puns, double-meaning jokes, and corporate-speak nonsense and have it make sense in another language? What does YAMAKO mean in Chinese? How can we know?

Luckily, our friends on the World of Goo 2 Russian Translation Team have written a wonderful guest post about their process and all the work that occurred behind the scenes, which you can read about here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/22000/discussions/0/682986025703903084/

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Steam News / 17 November 2025

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