{"id":51061,"date":"2025-08-14T18:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=51061"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:31:43","slug":"developer-accidentally-names-game-crap-dungeon-on-japanese-steam-store-in-apparent-localization-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/developer-accidentally-names-game-crap-dungeon-on-japanese-steam-store-in-apparent-localization-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer accidentally names game \u201cCrap Dungeon\u201d on Japanese Steam store in apparent localization mishap\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Italian developer Fix-a-Bug recently announced a release date for their roguelike dungeon-crawler titled <strong>The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles<\/strong>, set to launch on Steam on October 24. Ahead of launch, the title has garnered much attention among Japanese gamers due to a baffling mishap \u2013 the name \u201cCrazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles\u201d somehow ended up being localized as \u201cCrap Dungeon\u201d for Japanese Steam users.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unflattering misnomer \u201c<em>Kuso Dungeon<\/em>\u201d (jp: \u30af\u30bd\u30c0\u30f3\u30b8\u30e7\u30f3, lit: shitty\/crappy dungeon) suddenly appeared on the store page on August 8, and the issue quickly started circulating among amused users on X and Fix-a-Bug&#8217;s official Discord server.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of this may be related to ongoing updates to The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles\u2019 Japanese localization. The game\u2019s demo first got a Japanese language version after it was chosen for the \u201cSelected Indie 80\u201d category at last year\u2019s Tokyo Game Show. However, the localization was heavily machine-translated and felt awkward for players, so Fix-a-Bug announced that they would be making revisions ahead of the game\u2019s full release. The change to \u201cCrap Dungeon\u201d may have happened in the process of such updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\uff01\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u306e\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30de\u30fc\u3067\u3059\ud83d\ude05<br>\u610f\u56f3\u3057\u305f\u308f\u3051\u3067\u306f\u306a\u3044\u306e\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u3067\u306f\u300c\u30af\u30bd\u30c0\u30f3\u30b8\u30e7\u30f3\u300d\ud83d\udca9\u306b\u306a\u3063\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br>\u4fee\u6b63\u4e2d\u3067\u3059\u304c\u2026\u6b63\u76f4\u307e\u3060\u7b11\u3063\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\ud83e\udd2d<br>\u904a\u3093\u3067\u307f\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002\u672c\u5f53\u306b\u305d\u3093\u306a\u300c\u30af\u30bd\u300d\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044\u3053\u3068\u3092\u9858\u3063\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059 ^_^<br>\u203b\u3053\u306e\u6587\u306fAI\u7ffb\u8a33\u3067\u66f8\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>&mdash; Giorgio Macratore (@Macratore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Macratore\/status\/1955677253448389033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The game\u2019s programmer Giorgio Macratore responded to user reports on X, commenting, \u201cHello! Programmer here. It wasn\u2019t intended, but it seems the game became \u2018Crap Dungeon\u2019 in Japanese (poop emoji). I\u2019m fixing it now&#8230; but honestly, I\u2019m still laughing. Please give our game a try, I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s not actually crap.\u201d\u00a0The developers also addressed the issue in the official Discord server, and the title has since been corrected.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles launches for PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2510490\/The_Crazy_HyperDungeon_Chronicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>) on October 24.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-accidentally-tells-japanese-players-to-get-out-now-in-amusing-localization-mishap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 accidentally tells Japanese players to \u201cGet out, now!\u201d in amusing localization mishap\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the amusement on many, Italian indie developer Fix-a-Bug named their game the equivalent of &#8220;Crap\/Shitty Dungeon&#8221; in Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-51061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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