Polygon

Dota Underlords feels like a clone of Auto Chess

Auto Chess first arrived in the Dota 2 client, but it wasn’t developed by Valve. Instead, Auto Chess is a beautifully crafted mod made by Drodo Studio. Drodo is moving onto its own stand-alone project ...
HotHardware

DOTA Underlords Free-to-Play Auto Chess Game Gets First Battle Pass

Valve has just launched its first battle pass for Dota Underlords, which is its own version of the popular Auto Chess mod for Dota 2. Appropriately called Proto Pass (because it is a prototype battle ...
PCGamesN

Auto Chess, the Dota 2 spin-off, is getting its own MOBA

Warcraft 3 modders created a new genre with Defense of the Ancients, a custom game mode that eventually spun off into mega-popular MOBA games like League of Legends and Dota 2. Dota 2 modders created ...
DualShockers

Dota Auto Chess

Dota Underlords is adding a fast-paced new mode and five new heroes to the auto chess game with the newest Outlander update. Dota Underlords is getting the Proto Pass, a free battle pass that gives ...
Polygon

Which auto battler should you play: Teamfight Tactics, Underlords, or Dota 2 Auto Chess

Mordekaiser, Fiora, and Warwick will be featured Champions in Teamfight Tactics Riot Games Auto battler games have become the genre of the moment, and it’s no surprise why. Their combination of ...
Engadget

'Auto Chess' is going back to its roots with a MOBA spinoff

Developer Drodo Studio released the Dota Auto Chess mod in January 2019 before creating a renamed standalone version later that year. Its success prompted Valve to make its own auto battler spinoff of ...
IGN

MOBA Spin-Off Auto Chess Is... Becoming Its Own MOBA

Drodo and Dragonest, the creators of MOBA spin-off Auto Chess, has revealed it is creating a MOBA game of its own, similar to League of Legends and Dota 2. Announced in a tweet, Drodo's MOBA approach ...
HotHardware

Valve’s Dota Underlords Auto Chess Game Is A Multiplayer Smash Hit

Valve is making its own version of Auto Chess for Dota 2 on Steam, and the reaction so far is "mostly positive." Called Data Underlords, it is available as an Early Access title on Steam. Players have ...
Engadget

'Auto Chess' is coming to PS5 with haptic feedback

Before Valve (Dota Underlords) and Riot (Teamfight Tactics) launched their own versions of turn-based autobattlers, there was the Auto Chess mod for Dota 2. That game is now available as standalone ...
PCGamesN

Dota 2 mod Lostland Commander is basically PvE Auto Chess, and it's bananas

Now that Teamfight Tactics has muscled its way to the top of the autobattler games pile, it's sometimes easy to forget that the genre began not all that long ago with a Dota 2 arcade mode. There's a ...
vg247

Auto Chess is being adapted into a MOBA

Time is a flat circle, I swear to God. Right. So. Auto Chess is being turned into a MOBA. The news was broken earlier this month by publisher Dragonest - as spotted by Kotaku - which said that that it ...