Cut the Rope maker ZeptoLab grabs 10M downloads for King of Thieves (updated)

ZeptoLab has shown it can do something besides create Om Nom games. The Moscow-based mobile-game maker that gave us the megahit Cut the Rope series is announcing today that it has reached 10 million downloads and 6 million monthly active users with its King of Thieves game.

The company is hoping to set itself apart. A lucky company gets one good hit. But one with two is on its way to being something special to separate it from a million other game makers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.