Arabic Game Localization Infrastructure

Arabic is the hardest localization problem in games. We solved it first.

AI-powered plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity that catch RTL failures, overflow, and glyph errors before games ship. Built by veterans who shipped Arabic at EA and Google for a decade. Backed by the Academy of the Arabic Language.

The Problem

Arabic is fundamentally broken across every major game on the market.

Right-to-left rendering, bidirectional logic, and glyph shaping are three compounding failure systems no other language requires. Studios hire large QA teams to chase bugs reactively, and still ship broken experiences to 400 million people.

30×
More bugs
Than Spanish or French. RTL, BiDi, and glyph shaping compound in ways no Latin-script language faces.
90%
Ship broken
Of titles reach Arabic players with reversed text, corrupted layouts, and clipped UI. Studios spend $50K to $100K per game chasing fixes and still miss the mark.
400M
Underserved
Arabic speakers receive the worst-quality gaming experience on earth. 180 million are gamers. MENA is the fastest-growing gaming region globally.
The Complete Arabic Stack

Tools, linguists, and market entry. Integrated into one gateway.

Sahure Labs is not a plugin company or a translation agency. We are the three layers studios need to reach 400 million Arabic speakers, working together as one infrastructure: engine-native tools, production-grade linguists with voice-over, and a MENA market-entry playbook.

01
Engine Tools

Integrated once. Owned forever.

Six engine-native plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity covering the complete Arabic pipeline, from designer handoff to automated QA. The only engine-native Arabic solution in the market.

Ka
كا · Designer Layer
RTL Layout

Figma plugin for designers and engine plugin for engineers. Validates RTL alignment, flags BiDi risk, and ensures Arabic-first specs flow from design into production.

In Development
BST
بست · Overflow Detection
Clip & Overflow

Detects string overflow, text clipping, and widget boundary violations in real time. Proposes automated fixes before human QA is triggered.

In Development
Sesh
سش · Glyph & BiDi
Glyph Shaping

Handles glyph spacing, ligature correctness, BiDi ordering, and font fallback. The hardest layer of Arabic rendering, solved at engine level.

On Roadmap
Snoop
سنوپ · Scene Runner
Automated PIE

Autonomous level traversal in Unreal Engine. Scans shipped builds for Arabic issues without human QA. Blueprint-native Play-in-Editor orchestration.

Production Ready
Geb
جب · Visual QA
External Canvas

External visual QA dashboard. Screenshot-based issue review with no build access required. Autofix proposals, Jira integration, team collaboration.

Production Ready
Thoth
تحوت · Translation Hub
AI-Assisted TMS

Custom-fine-tuned Arabic LLMs. Not generic translation. Cultural adaptation, gaming terminology, tanween accuracy, auto-push to Unreal with voice synthesis.

Production Ready
02
LQA & Voice-Over

Human expertise. Voices that sound right.

Full-time senior Arabic linguists with EA and AAA production backgrounds. Academy of Arabic Language certified standards. Loc engineers on demand, end to end. And AI Arabic voice synthesis that respects tanween, tajweed, and lip-sync timing.

Senior Arabic Linguists
Full-time, not outsourced. EA and AAA production background, 10+ years combined. Gaming terminology, cultural adaptation, idiomatic nuance delivered at shipping quality.
On-Demand Loc Engineers
End-to-end project delivery. Build integration, string extraction, pipeline setup, handoff QA. For studios that need a short-term specialist without the long-term hire.
AI Arabic Voice Synthesis
Production voice-over generated at scale. Tanween and tajweed accuracy. Character voice consistency across updates. Emotional delivery tuned for gaming, not audiobook.
Audio Timing & Lip Sync
Arabic phoneme duration differs from Latin scripts. We handle lip-animation timing, dialogue pacing, and sync to cinematic cutscenes so Arabic audio feels native, not dubbed.
Platform Certification
Saudi GCAM, UAE content standards, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Nintendo. We know which rendering issues trigger certification rejection, and we fix them before submission.
Academy-Certified Quality
Linguistic validation through the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. Authoritative standards for modern Arabic, applied to training data and final deliverables.
03
The MENA Playbook

We don't just localize your game. We take it to market.

The difference between shipping Arabic and winning in MENA is the marketing dynamic. Authentic campaigns, influencer networks, on-ground data, and community strategy. Built by people who live the region, for studios that are new to it.

Campaign Activation
Culturally authentic Arabic marketing campaigns. Creative direction, copywriting, and execution tuned for MENA audiences. Not translated Western campaigns.
Influencer & Creator Network
Direct relationships with Arabic gaming influencers across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, and the Levant. Creator partnerships, community activation, coordinated launch amplification.
Sentiment & Market Intelligence
MENA gaming sentiment analysis, competitor Arabic release monitoring, player community insights. Data that tells you what resonates before you spend marketing budget.
On-Ground Data Collection
In-region team gathering real player feedback, cultural acceptance signals, pricing sensitivity, and platform behavior. Actual ground truth, not assumptions.
Community Building
Arabic gaming community strategy across Discord, YouTube, TikTok, and X. Building a player base from day one in the language they actually speak.
Launch & Compliance Strategy
Launch timing, platform prioritization, regional rollout sequence, and regulatory compliance across Saudi GCAM and UAE content standards. The full go-to-market for MENA.
Why Us

Ten years in production. A legacy in language.

Sahure Labs didn't emerge from a business plan. It emerged from a decade of shipping Arabic at Electronic Arts and Google, and from a father's life's work preserving the language itself.

1932
Academy of the Arabic Language
Founded in Cairo. The world's oldest and most authoritative Arabic linguistic institution. Formal partnership established.
50+ yrs
A Father's Legacy
Dr. Mohamed Hassan Abdelaziz, Academy member and Arabic linguist, taught at King Abdulaziz and Umm Al-Qura universities in Saudi Arabia. His work is the foundation of ours.
2025
EA Validation
Senior engineers and localization directors at Electronic Arts formally validated Khaled Abdelaziz as project owner and technical lead of the Arabic infrastructure innovation that would become Sahure Labs.
2026
LEAP Riyadh · High Potential
Selected to the top tier of the world's largest tech and gaming startup stage. Creative Industries, booth H1A.P532. Free booth confirmed.
Now
The Mission Continues
5% of profits committed to those in need. Arabic infrastructure for 400 million speakers. His legacy, in code.

He spent his life protecting Arabic. I am spending mine making sure it survives the digital age.

Khaled Abdelaziz
Founder & CEO · On his late father
The Team

Built in Cairo and Málaga.

A distributed team of production-grade engineers with direct experience at Electronic Arts, Google, Scale AI, and in AAA game development.

Khaled Abdelaziz
Founder & CEO

10 years Arabic QA at EA and Google. Shipped Battlefield, FIFA, Resident Evil, WWE 2K. Validated by EA leadership as project owner of the Arabic localization innovation. Son of Academy of Arabic Language member.

Mostafa Ragab
Founding Engineer · Backend & AI

Nile University, competitive programming background. Scale AI experience. Leads backend infrastructure, real-time LLM pipelines, and Arabic ML capabilities. The delivery benchmark.

Nardine Nader
Founding Engineer · Unreal & Unity

Ain Shams University graduate. UE5 C++ and Unity plugin architecture. Built the SahureSnapshotLib validated against Lyra frontend, catching real Arabic rendering bugs in production.

The Model

Stripe for Arabic. Integrate once. Own the capability.

Competitors sell labor. We sell infrastructure. Studios break even versus traditional services in 4 to 8 months, then save 70 to 90 percent ongoing while owning their Arabic capabilities permanently.

Phase 01
Integration
One-time setup. 2 to 12 week deployment.
Indie Studio
$2K — $15K
AA Studio
$15K — $50K
AAA / Enterprise
$50K — $150K+
Phase 02
Subscription
Monthly recurring. API, credits, updates.
Indie / Small
$500 — $2K / mo
Mid-tier
$3K — $8K / mo
AAA / Enterprise
$10K — $25K+ / mo
Get in Touch

Ship Arabic without the bugs.

Whether you are a studio preparing a MENA launch, an investor looking at gaming infrastructure, or a partner wanting to collaborate, we would like to hear from you.

Based
Málaga · Cairo
Next event
Nordic Game · Malmö · May 28