What is Dota 2's Auto Chess?

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DOTA Auto Chess was released by Chinese developer Drodo Studio on Steam in January 2019. The number of users on the site is huge and continues to grow. Other game companies began to notice mod's success and develop their own games. Riot Games has just released team combat strategies in its beta space, a game inspired by a legendary story.

Many of the big trends in gaming over the past decade started with mods for classic video games. Using World of Warcraft 3 as a starting point, ice frog and his colleagues developed defenses against the ancient and MOBA sub-genre. PlayerUnknown has taken the military shooter ARMA 2 and created PUBG, cementing war royale's status as a game royalty. Now from Dota2 comes the latest dod phenomenon to go global: Auto Chess.

Drodo studios still supports the mods that started all this in the first place and has released a mobile version of Auto Chess. Players select champions from DOTA and place them on their own board. With each turn, you accumulate more gold and experience, increasing the number of units you can buy and place on the board. The hero store refreshes every turn, and rarer characters appear as the game progresses.

The game mode can be hard to understand at first (especially since originally the Auto Chess mod was only written in Chinese), but is a blast once you do.

Its success is largely due to its playfulness, which offers a hybrid style of play that is neither true chess nor Dota, but something entirely unique. This model also has some incredible benefits, and once everyone realizes how addictive it is, we'll see it develop in the near future.

Dota 2's Auto Chess custom mode is a remarkable success story. First off, it's not even an official Valve mode, but a community mod. Secondly, it's absolutely taken off without any backing, whether that be marketing, promotion or otherwise. It's drawn in tonnes of strategy-minded players who've either lapsed from the traditional MOBA experience found in, well, Dota 2 itself.

One of the keys to success in Dota Auto Chess is knowing what units are stronger than others - just like Dota 2 or any other hero based game for that matter. To give you a better idea of what's considered hot or not right now, we've put together a tier list which ranks all of the units in the game(click here to view).

Dota 2 Auto Chess also helps that Auto Chess is a fantastic remix of Dota's universe, borrowing its heroes and abilities, and adapting them into a game defined by strategic micro-battles against both players and AI alike.

An open beta of Auto Chess Mobile has released for Android and iOS devices worldwide. For all the info on how to get Auto Chess on your handheld device, make sure you head on over to our Dota 2 Auto Chess Mobile guide!

This section of our guide covers the basics of How to Play Auto Chess, How to Get Dota 2 Auto Chess Candy and will hopefully provide you with enough knowledge to jump in and get started with the custom game mode.

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