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Kiloo

Based in Aarhus, Denmark Founded 2000

Kiloo is a Danish company from Aarhus that co-developed and published the mobile game Subway Surfers with SYBO Games from 2012 until 2020. It stopped mobile game development in 2023 and now hosts web-based games on its website.

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  1. Labour

    Gave staff notice ahead of closing

    Kiloo's design director said on LinkedIn that the studio's roughly 100 staff had been given notice of termination by the end of June 2023 and that it was closing after 23 years; other employees corroborated this. Kiloo did not publicly give a reason.

    Game Developer
  2. Court case

    Settled US children's privacy class action over Subway Surfers

    In McDonald v. Kiloo A/S, filed in July 2017 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, parents alleged that Subway Surfers contained advertising software that collected data from children under 13 for commercial purposes without parental consent. On 12 April 2021 Judge James Donato approved a settlement in which Kiloo admitted no liability and agreed, to the extent it still had publishing responsibility for the game, to add an age gate that asks players for their age, collect data from players who say they are under 13 only in compliance with the children's privacy law COPPA and use only ad software that its ad networks say can serve them contextual (non-targeted) ads, and delete certain personal data collected when it published the game. Class members received no money and kept the right to sue for damages; the court ordered Kiloo to pay $654,365 in the plaintiffs' lawyers' fees and expenses and $833 to each of the three named plaintiffs as service awards.

    US District Court for the Northern District of California (via CourtListener)
  3. Other

    Handed Subway Surfers publishing to SYBO

    Kiloo's involvement in Subway Surfers ended in 2020, when its rights in the game were transferred in full to co-developer SYBO Games.

    Game Developer

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Last checked 1 November 2026. Sources: www.gamedeveloper.com, gameworldobserver.com, en.wikipedia.org, storage.courtlistener.com, storage.courtlistener.com, www.courtlistener.com, lieffcabraser.com. Spotted something wrong or missing? Send a correction.