Dota Underlords

Dota Underlords

Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Recruit heroes and upgrade them into a more powerful version of themselves. Each hero you recruit can form unique alliances. Stacking your team with allied heroes will unlock powerful bonuses that can crush your rivals. Play on your platform of choice and battle players across the globe in a hassle-free crossplay experience. Running late? Start a match on your PC and finish it on your mobile device (and vice versa). Your profile in Dota Underlords is shared across all devices, so no matter what you play on, you’re always making progress.

Everyone starts at the bottom, but by playing against other Underlords you’ll climb through the ranks and prove you’re worthy to rule White Spire. Create your own private lobbies and matches, then invite spectators to watch you duke it out. Offering a sophisticated AI with 4 levels of difficulty, offline play is a great place to hone your skills. Pause and resume games at your leisure. Underlords runs on a shiny new network system for lag-free experiences.

The Battle Pass will introduce progression, cosmetics, custom boards and a host of other new features to the Dota Underlords experience. Every season we’ll say goodbye to certain Heroes, Items, and Alliances to make room for new additions that will shape the ever-evolving world of Underlords. Choose an Underlord persona from our ever-expanding roster that fits your play style. With unique gameplay affecting changes, there’s an Underlord for everyone.

Dota Underlords Review

Autochess is a popular mod for DOTA that was a big success. I myself have accumulated more than 40 hours of playtime in Dota while never touching the MOBA side of the game.

The autobattler genre is a very peculiar category of game where the player is tasked with the creation of a team of heroes. Each round the players’ squads battle each other autmatically, so the gameplay here is (1) create a synergistic team and (2) position each hero appropriately in the battlefield grid. The fact that you only watch the pieces fight and you don’t fight yourself makes this on of those games that are not for everyone, simple due to the fact that a lot of people might (and will) find this very boring.

Dota Underlords itself is an evolution of Dota: Autochess, making some things better and some things worse. The first thing you’ll notice if you played autochess is the new UI. For new players, the UI is better than before, but unfortunately it is also made for mobile and thus some actions require more clicks than they should.

The core gameplay was left untouched, but changes on how items work and drop have been made: now every hero can only have one item at most and items can be picked from a pool of three when you win neutral rounds (if you lose the round you get to only pick one fixed item, though). This feels a LOT more fair because you always get your item no matter what, while in the mod everything was completely random and unbalanced. Some synergies have different buffs now, like some heroes that have different powers (and there are new heroes too!). Games feels also a little bit shorter due to shorter fights.

Optimization is now a thing: in four hours of playtime I always played with rock solid 60fps, unlike the mod where lategame rounds where a rodeo between 25 and 45 fps. This might be also due to the fact that some animations are now simpler and that now when you level up your pieces they do not change skin like before (with flashy effects on level 2 and 3).

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Summary
In the end you'll like Dota: Underlords if you liked Autochess: Underlords is basically a cleaner version of the mod. If you've never played an autobattler before, try it, it's free, but take into account the fact that this genre is not for everyone!
Good
  • Great QoL changes
  • Less RNG in items
  • Team pieces can only hold 1 item
  • Great animations, moving and fighting
Bad
  • No candies or couriers
8.4
Great
Gameplay - 8.4
Graphics - 8.3
Audio - 8.4
Longevity - 8.5

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