Reworked skill trees and new minigames aside, Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update includes a Ukrainian localisation of the game’s million-plus-word script. It turns out the Ukrainian version is awash with references to Russia’s on-going invasion of Ukraine, all of it seemingly in support of the latter. The news comes via Zone of Games, who have published a few side-by-side comparisons from the game’s files, underlining differences between the English and Ukrainian translations in various bits of dialogue and menu text.

I asked the organisers of Indie Cup - a Kyiv, Ukraine-based digital festival of games like Pahris Entertainment’s upcoming Space Wreck - to help me double-check the Ukrainian version’s alterations. The Indie Cup team’s Arsenii Tarasov was happy to oblige, and also volunteered a few further examples of more… adventurous localisation from his own research, supported with screenshots.

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