King of Thieves
Why We Picked King of Thieves
King of Thieves is built around tapping on a touchscreen, and the level design does the explaining that the text does not. It is a platformer with a map, and it knows it. The tension is in the route rather than the timer: the level wants to be solved, and it will not hurry. Nothing in it wastes your time on purpose, which is rare for the genre. By the numbers: 8,045 plays, 4.1 out of 5 from 295 ratings, and 74 of 183 on the adventure shelf.
How to Play
The game is small enough to explain in three lines:
- Built for a finger: large targets and no hover states to guess at.
- Get through the route in one piece; the retry is cheaper than the detour.
- Use the fullscreen view; the edges of the level matter as much as the middle.
Editor’s Note
There is nothing to install and nothing to keep, which suits the length. Because levels are short, closing the tab mid-run costs less here than almost anywhere else on the site.
Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.
Publisher Description
Supplied by the game’s publisher; reproduced as-is.
King of Thieves turns burglary into a platforming sport. You play a nimble little thief breaking into deadly dungeons, dodging traps, and making off with every pile of gold that is not nailed down, and it comes from the same studio behind the award-winning Cut the Rope.
Each dungeon is a compact obstacle course. You run, jump, and cling to walls, threading your way past spinning blades, spikes, cannons, and other mechanical nastiness to reach the treasure chest at the end. One touch from a trap sends you back to the start, so every room is a short, sharp test of timing and nerve. The controls are simple enough to grasp in seconds, but the trap layouts demand real precision.
The game stretches well beyond a single dungeon crawl. You break into enemies' dungeons to steal their treasures, and defending your own haul becomes its own obsession, since other thieves are just as eager to raid you. That loop of stealing and protecting your gold gives every successful run real stakes, and the dungeon designs keep escalating with trickier trap combinations that punish predictable routes. Fair warning: the developers openly admit the game is extremely addictive.
Getting rich takes more than fast fingers. Study a trap's rhythm before you move, because almost every mechanism runs on a pattern you can read and exploit. Commit to your jumps once you start a sequence, since hesitating mid-run usually lands you on a blade. When a dungeon keeps beating you, try a different route or timing instead of repeating the same attempt, and remember that reaching the chest with anything left in your life bar counts as a win.
Platformer fans who like their challenges bite-sized and their rewards shiny will be hooked fast. Prove you are the smartest and most skillful thief in the dungeon, one stolen gem at a time.
