Auto chess controls mod#

These are the first three rounds of the game and every fifth round starting at round 10. Some rounds feature players battling non-player ' creeps', rather than one another.

This is why the Arcade mode of the game and its resulting offshoots are called 'auto battlers'. The teams compete in an automatically generated battle over which the player has no direct control. Upon the initiation of every round, an enemy team appears on the player's board (home games) and the player's team appears on an enemy's board (away games).

Each player controls a character called a courier, which tracks the player's health, gold (also referred to as mana), and experience level. Up to eight players are assigned to their own chessboard upon which their 'home' battles are fought. This elimination style game features elements derived from chess and Dota 2. Later in 2019, Drodo Studio developed a standalone version known simply as Auto Chess, while Valve, the developer of Dota 2, developed their own standalone version known as Dota Underlords. The popularity of the mod, with its having over eight million players by May 2019, led to the creation of the auto battler genre that had a number of other games being released. Developed by Drodo Studio and released in January 2019, the game features elements of chess and supports up to eight players.

Auto chess controls mod#

Dota Auto Chess is a strategy video game mod for the video game Dota 2.