How exactly do you decide a game has a Romanian edition?

We look at four signals, UNION-ed (any one positive is enough): (1) an edition cataloged from BGG ` ` marked "Romanian"; (2) a rulebook cataloged with language='ro'; (3) an alternate name with lang='ro' from one of 3 sources — BGG sync (admin-correctable), the daily `ro_title` puzzle on /joaca, or the `ro_title` task on /ajuta; (4) an explicit marker in the canonical title — `(RO)` or a long form like "(editia in limba romana)". On (3) we apply a min-4-alphanumeric-char filter to strip very short typos (e.g. "Hîve" for "Hive"); the threshold safely keeps real short names like "Tabu". Romanian shops always include a marker in the title when selling the localized edition, so signal (4) is a strong one.

Why compare both Top 100 and Top 500?

Top 100 reflects the "board-game canon" — the oldest-important games. Top 500 also includes recent releases, so its percentage shows the localization velocity better. The gap between the two is the interesting signal.

How fresh is the data?

Monthly — when we refresh BGG ranks and the edition sync. The `/api/public/reports/translation-coverage` endpoint has a 30-minute cache over the hourly compute.

Why does the publisher leaderboard only count BGG editions, not the other signals?

Only `game_editions` carries a reliable `publisher` field. The other 3 signals (alternate_names / rulebooks / title markers) carry no publisher identity for the localizer, so including them would inflate the leaderboard with phantom publishers. All 4 signals feed the Top 100 / Top 500 coverage percentages, but the publisher leaderboard stays on the reliable source.

Board games with a Romanian edition — BGG Top 100/500 coverage

Percentage of BGG Top 100 and Top 500 with a Romanian (and Hungarian) edition, top publishers and most-important untranslated titles

RO + HUUpdated 11 Nov 2026

How many board games have a Romanian-language edition?

28% of the BGG Top 100 had a Romanian edition (28 of 100) and 73% had a Hungarian edition (73 of 100), tracked across all editions in the howtoplay.ro catalog.

Source: howtoplay.ro, data as of 11 Nov 2026

28%

% of Top 100

28 of 100

Top 100 titles

24%

% of Top 500

119 of 502

119

Top 500 titles

Top publishers by localized editions

How many distinct titles each publisher has with an edition in the selected language in our catalog.

Ludicus Games

titles

Gameology (Gameology Romania)

titles

Lex Games

titles

Ideal Board Games

titles

KOSMOS

titles

cutia.ro

titles

Regatul Jocurilor

titles

Oxygame

titles

Piatnik

titles

#10

Tactic

titles

Top BGG with no Romanian edition

The highest-ranked games in BGG Top 200 that don't yet have a Romanian edition. The shortlist publishers can prioritize for next localization.