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Game details

  • Description Five-player teams draft from a large roster of unique heroes and fight across lanes to destroy the enemy Ancient, combining item-driven power spikes, tight teamwork, and deep strategic decision-making with a high skill ceiling.
  • Genre MOBA, Multiplayer, Strategy, eSports, Team-Based
  • Developer Valve
  • Publisher Valve
  • Release Date Jul 9, 2013
  • Free to Play Yes

Latest updates

Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026

Over the past few days we've made various bug fixes and improvements:

Dark Carnival
  • Playing Regular and Turbo games now reward Scrap tickets. 6 Scrap can be traded for a Hero ticket of your choice. Regular games reward 2, Turbo games reward 1. Scrap is rewarded regardless of winning or losing.
  • Seeing Stones can now be earned by playing Co-op Bot Matches on Hard and Unfair difficulties
  • Candyworks now displays if an offered item is already owned ...

The Dark Carnival

Don't you hate it when you wake up in a prison car with no memory of how you got there and, worse, no way to escape, only to discover you've been captured by an evil puppet-man as part of some dark bargain with an ancient world-conquering evil? We've all been there. We're pulling back the curtain on the Dark Carnival, a new ongoing event in the Dota universe. This first part, "Midnight Run", lets you navigate Legion Commander and Hoodwink through a massive, fully-voiced...

7.41d Gameplay Patch

Patch 7.41d is out now and you can check out the patch notes here. In addition, we've recently addressed the following issues:

  • Fixed Greevils not spawning their equipped effects
  • Fixed Earthshaker's Planetfall Arcana not tracking combos and combo damage properly
  • Fixed right click on Dota Labs Overlay Map not working when "Auto-Repeat Right Mouse" is enabled
  • Fixed Bottle with a stored Rune being able to be moved in and out of the backpack ...

7.41c Gameplay Patch

Patch 7.41c is out now and you can check out the patch notes here. In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:

  • Fixed illusions not duplicating the correct level of neutral item enchantment
  • Fixed Bloodstone's Bloodpact having a superfluous stack counter
  • Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst getting into a state where it never triggers
  • Fixed Consecrated Wraps having varying sell cost based on how many charges are active ...

7.41b Gameplay Patch

Patch 7.41b is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

Dota 2 Update - 3/31/2026

Over the past few days we've addressed the following issues:

  • Fixed Meepo being able to create potions (and other stackable, nonshareable items)
  • Fixed Meepo clones not benefitting Abyssal Blade or Disperser
  • Fixed Meepo and Divine Rapier interaction
  • Fixed Meepo and Radiance interaction
  • Fixed Meepo deleting his Hand of Midas when using the last charge on a clone
  • Fixed Megameepo always having full Divided We Stand penalties ...