Game Groups > Defense of the Ancients variants
Defense of the Ancients (abbreviated as DotA) is a user modification for WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. It popularized a set of specific game mechanics:
- Multiplayer focus: while there can be a single-player mode, DotA variants are primarily multiplayer games.
- Team based: there is a strong emphases on team play, i.e. the teams consist of multiple players.
- Heroes: each player controls a single hero unit with special abilities. During the course of a match, the hero's abilities are upgraded. Some variants also offer general upgrades which are applied between matches.
- Maps: usually the maps are symmetric.
Limitations
- Games with DotA user modifications are not included.
- This group is restricted to MOBAs.
Related Groups
- 3D Engine: Unreal Engine 3
- Fantasy creatures: Dwarves
- Fantasy creatures: Elves
- Fantasy creatures: Orcs
- Gameplay feature: Loot boxes
- Gameplay feature: Recordable replays
- Genre: ARTS/MOBA
- Middleware: Easy Anti-Cheat
- Middleware: Scaleform GFx SDK
- Protagonist: Female (option)
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Title | Released |
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Bloodline Champions | 2011 |
Demigod | 2009 |
Dota 2 | 2013 |
Genesis | 2019 |
Heroes of Newerth | 2010 |
Heroes of Order & Chaos | 2012 |
Heroes of the Storm | 2015 |
League of Legends | 2009 |
League of Legends: Wild Rift | 2020 |
Prime World | 2014 |
Smite: Battleground of the Gods | 2014 |
Stellar Impact | 2011 |
Strife | 2015 |
Vainglory | 2014 |