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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

Inside the Trove of Terror

Some time ago, a time now none of us can quite recall, we began to set our minds on matters of the monstrous. Our work has always concerned itself with the manufacture of frightening things, so there was no reason at that time for alarm. Until we began to fill a new treasure chest with item sets themed around eldritch and otherworldly designs. ...

7.41f Gameplay Patch

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

  • Fixed spot on map near the top Roshan Pit where a hero could hide within the geometry of the cave
  • Fixed being able to mark items for sale that are normally unsellable during their initial sellback period
  • Fixed Tranquil Boots not going on cooldown when disassembled from stash ...

Gameplay Patch 7.41e and Summer Scrub

The International approaches and we've just released an update that includes predictions, fantasy, supporter bundles, and a chance to prove your skills and win new Immortals and unlock terrains. But that's not all. Today we're also releasing patch 7.41e. Even that's not everything, though. Dota is a complicated game, and while we greatly enjoy the creativity and diligence of the dedicated players who find intricate...

The International: Predictions, Fantasy, and Supporter Bundles

Nearly a year has passed since Team Falcons hoisted the Aegis of Champions as the final team standing in Hamburg. But that was last year's story, and the time has come to turn our thoughts to Shanghai and the crop of competitors who vie to write the tale of this year. All of their battles have brought them to the precipice. The International is just two weeks away. ...

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...