Custom Games are game modes that differ from standard Dota 2. Most custom games are created by the community with the Workshop Tools. Custom Game Passes can be purchased for some games, and will grant owners access to certain premium content.
List[]
Created by Valve[]
These custom games were created by Valve.
| Banner | Name | Players | Teams | Description |
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Overthrow | 10 10 9 15 16 |
FFA 2v2v2v2v2 3v3v3 5v5v5 4v4v4v4 |
Overthrow is a quick fight to the death in a small team free-for-all as players try to earn enough kills to win the match before the timer expires. Gather a friend or two, or go it alone as you stalk near the Midas Throne, which increases the gold and experience gains of nearby heroes. Snatch Gold Coins as they appear, or head out to claim an item delivery. |
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Dota 10v10 | 20 | 10v10 | A regular match of Dota, but with increased gold and experience rate and with ten players on each side instead of five. |
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Colosseum | 10 | 5v5 | Colosseum is a fast-paced 5 versus 5 match where players must contest five control points across the map to earn points for their team. |
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| Banner | Name | Players | Teams | Updated Since 7.00 | Description |
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Dota Auto Chess | 1-8 | PvP
FFA |
Yes | Up to 8 players each on a separate board collect chess pieces based on Dota heroes and battle each other automatically. The game has a ranked ladder. The player to survive emerges victorious. |
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Roshpit Champions | 4-5 | PvE | Yes | RPG game, where up to 4 players can explore and combat monsters in 5 different maps. The game has a save/load system for characters, a custom item drop/equip system and challenging monster AIs. |
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Angel Arena Reborn
(Discord) |
10
20 |
5v5
10v10 |
Yes | Angel Arena is back in Dota 2, original bosses, original heroes with a little balance.
Angels and Monks. Demons and Guardians. |
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Angel Arena Black Star | 10
20 |
5v5
4v4v4v4 |
Yes | Angel Arena Black Star is a gamemode which is based on farm, ganks and fights. First team that reaches kill goal wins. |
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Boss Survival Adventure | 5 | PvE | Yes | Boss Survival Adventure is a map for sharing with friends! You have 10 unique locations, 10+ bosses, a lot of hiding places and logical puzzles! Kill all the bosses and try to survive! |
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Memes Reborn | 10
10 9 |
FFA
2v2v2v2v2 3v3v3 |
Yes | Memes Reborn, super druggy mod, enjoy this disbalanced ♥♥♥♥ed up game, fellas! Based on Overthrow custom game. |
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Birzha Memov | 10
10 9 |
FFA
2v2v2v2v2 3v3v3 |
Yes | Birzha Memov This is a fun mod where you can relax with friends! |
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Spin TD | 4 | PvE | Yes | PIN TD is a 4 player Tower defense map, where you build towers by selecting preplaced markers on the map to build your towers. |
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Guarding Athena | 4 | PvE | Yes | Defend Athena from 38 vicious waves of enemies. How long can you last? |
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Skillshot Wars | 10 | 5v5 | Yes | Face off in a 5v5 arena battle, putting your skill to the test with 4 hard-to-land abilities! First team to 50 kills wins! |
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Attack on Hero | 5 | PvE | Yes | Survive and defend the gate in a holdout-style game against 28 waves of unique and challenging monsters. |
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Battleships
(Discord) |
10 | 5v5 | Yes | Teams fight on water using boats of varying abilities. Everyone starts with a basic Barrel boat which can be further upgraded and exchanged for different, and more powerful boats at the shop using gold. |
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Crumbling Island Arena
(Discord) |
4
6 |
2v2
3v3 |
Yes | Choose one of 35 unique heroes and fight on the dynamically destructible arena. |
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Custom Hero Survival | 10 | 5v5 | Yes | Choose a hero, and set him up with up to 6 skills for him to survive on the arena. |
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Dota IMBA
(Discord) |
10 20 |
5v5 10v10 |
Yes | Dota IMBA is the answer to the question: what would happen if every hero received nothing but buffs for 100 patches straight? |
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X Hero Siege: Reborn
(Discord) |
1-8 | PvE | Yes | It's a base defense and then a boss fight mode. |
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Epic Boss Fight
(Discord) |
7 8 |
PvE 1v7 |
Yes | Epic Boss Fight is a game mode where you fight very powerful bosses with custom items. |
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Gem TD | 1–4 | PVE | Yes | Building towers in a maze, and combine them with other towers. |
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Legends of Dota (Steam Workshop) |
10 | 5v5 | Yes | Pick your skills to build an overpowered masterpiece! Test out different combinations! Create unique and creative heroes to dominate your opponent on 5v5 battle. |
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Legends of Dota: Redux
(Discord) |
20 | 5v5
10v10 COOP |
Yes | Choose from a huge selection of gamemodes and mutators to make every experience unique!
Pick your skills or select a random build! Take advantage of hero perks and custom abilities to further enhance your hero! |
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Life In Arena | 8 | PvE | Yes | Life in Arena is a good example of a hero survival game, where you need to fight against waves of creeps, bosses and megabosses. |
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Naval Warfare (Steam Workshop) |
10 | PvP | Yes | Naval Warfare is an open beta PVP where you take the helm of a battleship and fight against opponents to rule the seas. |
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Pimp My Peon | 10 12 |
FFA 2v2v2v2v2v2 3v3v3v3 4v4v4 6v6 |
Yes | Pimp your Peons with stronger Weapons, Helms, Shields and Wings, and buff them with passive abilities to destroy the opposition! Peons will spawn constantly from your Garage, which also contains upgrades to increase peon limit and spawn rate, and various defensive abilities. |
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Warlock Brawl (Steam Workshop) |
10 | PvP | Yes | Warlock Brawl is the official Dota 2 mod based on the Warcraft III map Warlock developed by its original creators. It is a physics based arena game. |
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Legion TD Reborn | 8 | 4v4 | Yes | A team based tower defense where you place units to defend your king against enemy units while sending units to destroy the your opposing team |
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Horde Mode | 2-5 | PvE | Yes | Defend the Radiant base from hordes of enemies! Destroy the Dire Ancient to win. |
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Wraith Night: Expansion (Steam Workshop) |
5 | PvE | No | A hold-out game which is inspired by the classic game, Wraith Night and other custom games such as Moo Moo Generation X and X Hero Siege. The game is designed to be more playable when you are playing solo and shares same difficulty on playing with a partner or a team. |
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Pudge Wars Reborn (Steam Workshop)(Discord) |
10 | 5v5 | Yes | Pudge Wars Reborn is a game mode designed to train hook accuracy skills against opponents. Teams compete to be the first to reach certain milestones of kills — 25/50/75/100/150 — to secure victory. The game also features additional abilities and items that add complexity to the gameplay. |
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Warchasers (Steam Workshop) |
5 | PvE | No | Remake of a Warcraft III map made by Blizzard. Players choose custom heroes and co-operatively fight their way through a legendary city against overwhelming masses of monsters. |
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Tree Tag (Steam Workshop) |
7 | 5v2 | No | Radiant need to defend against the Dire by hiding and/or building bases behind walls in order to outlast or kill them. |
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Survival Co-op (Steam Workshop) |
5 | PvE | No | Survive against as many waves of monsters as you can! |
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SF Wars (Steam Workshop) |
10 | 5v5 | No | Remake of the classic Raze Wars from Warcraft III. Test your skill in casting shadowrazes! Ten players divided in two teams are striving to get 50/75/100 kills using only autoattacks and razes. |
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Retro Dota (Steam Workshop) |
10 | 5v5 | No | Play as removed heroes from Dota's past, including 27-spell Invoker and Gambler! |
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Reflex (Steam Workshop) |
10 | 5v5 | No | Reflex is a high-speed team death match mode combining skillshot-action gameplay with strategic round-by-round hero building and counterplay. |
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Pudge Wars | 10 | 5v5 | Yes | Pudge Wars is a 5 versus 5 team game consisting of all Pudge heroes. The main way to get kills is to hook enemies using your hooks to reel in your victims to their slaughter and rescue your allies from the opposing side with hook as well. The first team to get 50/75/100 kills wins the game. |
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Invoker Wars (Steam Workshop) |
10 | 5v5 | No | The objective of this game mode is to become the most powerful wizard and rise up against the other Wizards. First team to 50 kills wins! |
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Dota Strikers | 8 | 4v4 | No | Dota Strikers is a team-based football style game where you control one hero and help get the ball into the opposing team's goal. Each hero has 1-2 unique abilities. Some heroes are more defensive or offensive than others. |
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Enfos Team Survival | 10 | 5v5 PvE |
No | Play as a team of 5 to hold off 42 waves of monsters that get progressively more and more difficult! Hold the waves off longer than the enemy team to win the game. Each team starts with 100 lives, and each creep leaked through to the base loses 1 life. First team to 0 loses! |
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Adventure Mode (Steam Workshop) |
1 | ?? | No | Players go on a RPG style adventure defeating creeps, earning gold, and leveling up. |
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Quadroside | 20 | 5v5v5v5 | No | Quadroside is a Custom Game that allows you to play 5v5v5v5 DotA. |
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Footmen Frenzy | 12 | 3v3v3v3 | No | Battle in a 3v3v3v3 area with your hero and an army of footmen! Your objective is to destroy all oppenent's bases. Upgrade your units and buy items to further your advantage. |
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Capture Points (Steam Workshop) |
10 | 5v5 | No | In this mode, capture points are placed on the map and both teams can capture a certain point by staying there for a required time. If you successfully manage to capture a point then your team get rewards in the form of HP/Mana Regen, Damage, Armor etc. |
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Power Multiplier
(DELETED) |
10 | 5v5 | No | All skills and items stats (like Range, Damage, AoE, speed and so) is multiplied, except for Critical % (but dmg is), Bash % and duration, Evade % and few overpowered AoE and durations |
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Hero Line Wars
(DELETED) |
10 | 5v5 | No | Two teams each attempt to defend their own base while sending creeps to attack the other team's base. |
Patch history[]
Patch
Description
- Custom Games: Fixed the lobby list connection sort not working correctly
- Custom Games addoninfo.txt: "HeroGuidesSupported" setting is now defaulted to truebv
- Custom Games addoninfo.txt: Added a new setting "ShouldForceDefaultGuide" which will cause default_* files to be utilized (if none is defined it will use the default from the base game)
- Custom Games Lua API: Linked several missing modifier properties
- Custom Games Lua API: Added function "SetUseDefaultDOTARuneSpawnLogic" to let custom games opt into the current set of rune spawning rules (previously it was forcing usage of an older rule set )
- Custom Games Lua API: Added "SetPowerRuneSpawnInterval" and "SetBountyRuneSpawnInterval" functions to customize rune spawn intervals (works with either the current or backwards compatible ruleset of rune spawning)
- Custom Games Lua API: Added several functions for asking for basic stats on units on the server "GetBaseAttackRange", "GetStatusResistance", "GetEvasion", "GetSpellAmplification( bool bBaseOnly) "
- Added support for up to 24 players in custom games.
- Custom Games can now be played on official dedicated servers.
- Implemented as part of Dota 2 Reborn open beta.
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