Unreleased content

Unreleased Hero status
These are heroes that are currently in a moderately advanced state of development by Valve and should be released "soon". Note: The heroes are ranked in order of state of development present in Dota 2 beta files, not in order of release.

Ranking is: finished, polished, beta, alpha. Most other heroes have only extremely crude icons and avatars. Particles status is highly subjective.

Captain's Mode
The following unreleased heroes are unavailable in Captain's Mode:, , , and.

The following unreleased heroes are available in Captain's Mode:, , and.
 * Note this does not imply that these heroes will be immediately available in Captain's Mode once they are released. and  are also available in the original version, but not yet in Dota 2.

Miscellaneous

 * Game modes playable in Dota 1:
 * Death Match - If you die, you will have to pick a new hero before you can respawn.
 * Easy Mode - Towers are weaker, experience is gained faster, and you get more periodic gold.
 * TagTeam - You are assigned two random heroes (different hero classes). You choose which to start the game with. You start with the same bonus gold as all random.
 * Achievements
 * The ability to join "ongoing games that are missing players"
 * The ability to replace missing players with bots (currently only in Limited Heroes)
 * Custom games