At this point, I have spent nearly 50 hours with Dota Underlords. I still do not know what an Underlord is. This is because Valve’s early-access auto battler still does not contain its shadowy namesakes. In a matter of weeks, however, that’s going to change.
Ideally, Dota Underlords, like its auto-battler kin, plays out as a game of slow-build strategy in which you amass an army of heroes based on synergies between them. Maybe that means a chanting brood of surprisingly survivable warlocks. Maybe that means a beefy team of brawny boys who are even…
I was trying to play a game of Dota Underlords on the train home. It wasn’t going well. Vodafone couldn’t get a decent signal in the train tunnels, the app kept stalling, and when it did work, the game was just generally unplayable. But that didn’t stop the auto battler,…