Created by a Chinese developer called Drodo Studio Dota Auto Chess is a new mod for Dota 2 it flew under the radar at launch but players love it, it has experienced a rapid growth in its user base, today has reached over 800K subscribers and over 300K ratings on Steam, all this in just ten days after its release, it’s astonishing.
Check this gameplay video down below:
Bailey broke down the major game elements in his tweet:
- Although the name implies the game is chess related the only similarities you have is that the map is a chessboard and you’ve pieces (units) that are placed on the board. Pieces have different races, classes, abilities and can synergize or be upgraded with other similar pieces.
- Each round begins with the option to purchases pieces, ever player is shown five random pieces from a shared pool. Pieces are purchased using the gold you earned, your income amount is affected by your win/losing streak and interest.
- Every round either a clone of another players chessboard or creeps appear on your other half of the chessboard. They fight, if all your units die, you lose hp per alive enemy units and the board gets reset to pre-fight. Repeat for every round.
For comparison, after going free-to-play a few months ago, CS:GO gained around 100,000 daily users to reclaim the 400K concurrent user mark — showing just how impressive the growth of Dota Auto Chess has been.
If you like strategy games you need to give it a try, it’s not actually a traditional chess game, and certainly it’s not boring at all also it’s under 0.2 GB its file size so give it a try and leave your opinion in the comment section below.
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