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Dota 2

Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
Dota
Release date
Jul 9, 2013
Store page updated
Jan 27, 2026
Price
Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

49.2/ 100

Based on 290 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 69% of 24,294
All time 😄 Very Positive 80% of 2,780,496
“best MOBA ever despite hating it, still plays”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.46
Onboarding -2.95
“completely unfriendly to new players, all veteran players, hard to win” (20)
对新手完全不友好这游戏根本没新人匹配也全是一群老登，新手想打个活动打两天赢一把都难输赢全看队友

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Story & World
+1.44

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

World +1.33

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Content Volume
+1.27

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Variety -1.15

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Visuals & Sound
+3.50

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +3.00

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Multiplayer
-1.59
Community -2.54
“worst gaming communities in existence, tests patience and faith in humanity” (37)

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Fairness
-3.33
Matchmaking -3.88
“matchmaking puts you with players who ignore roles and positions” (50)
傻逼游戏，开定位匹配老是遇到tmd不按照位置打的畜生，nmb，玩尼玛4000多把就jb学个辅助转核心是吧，nmb那你说一声我去打45也行啊，就几把不说，选个沉默冰女出个jb电锤，吃3号位兵线，刷1号位野怪，刷完就给对面送个大的，我打nm的瘟 更新： 我c尼玛的v社，打个几把低分段就是看哪边傻逼少，那我c你妈的时候是不是得看你妈在不在地球啊，nmlgb，这几把游戏还有人类么，tm骷髅王大优结束对线出个臂章黯灭非得跟一个出狂战斧的pa互刷，然后nm带队友送一波然后骂useless team，nmb雷泽和jb剧毒刷了nm一整把经济比我辅助高3000，伤害多4000，让nmlgb带团打架再不打就tm输了，还几把搁着刷mkb，对面打个jb盾，放完中1塔放下一塔，放完下一塔放上一塔，放完3个二塔还tm打钱呢就jb剩我一个5和一个刷不明白钱的剧毒守家，我守nm的瘟。 更新+2： 我阐述你马的dota，老子玩个wd，全程下来一点怪没刷，全在给这帮傻逼兜底，明知道对面有戴泽，3的nec和2的qop不出大骨灰，pa也是个nmd怂逼，狂战斧之后直接bkb，nmb黯灭呢？？？否决呢？？？天怒连nmb的野也不会刷，50min憋了个A杖出来，一看啥b辅助装都没有连魔晶也没有，你tm但凡出个吹风也不会被对面TA当狗杀。还有nmb的这sb nec和qop ping了一把的小y，是自己吹风也不出，bkb也不用，qo

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Tech & Ops
-3.05
Developer support -2.55
“they don't want to update, only talk and do nothing” (23)
Решил написать после просмотра Diray честно очень сильно люблю эту игру но игру не как не хотят обновлять только говорят и не чего не делают обидно очень но надежда не умерла.

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
60%70%80%90%100%
Aug 2011Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 23,616 reviews, peak 1,205/day
01k2k
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 290 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • Russian74%
  • English17%
  • Portuguese3%
  • Chinese2%
  • Spanish1%
  • Ukrainian1%
  • Other2%

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