Dota Underlords is a standalone spinoff from the main game. It’s inspired by a mod, Dota Auto Chess, that has gone on to spawn a whole new genre. A simple hook makes the hero-drafting gameplay of the new autobattlers almost like a kind of strategic slot machine, fun both sitting at a desktop and on mobile. They’re colourful games, forcing you to stay on your toes, but still offering downtime between rounds. Brad Muir, coder and designer on Underlords, feels just that way about it. “I’ll go to the bathroom at round 12 and 13,” he says, to laughter from his teammates. “Whatever, it’s fine, I’m doing fine, I can just skip out on it and it’s OK.”
For a studio that makes notoriously innovative games making a spinoff from Dota 2, what is perhaps the most complex competitive game in the world today, Muir’s attitude came as a surprise. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. There’s a lot that’s unusual about Dota Underlords.
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?