Dota Underlords' Concurrent Player Peak Surpassed Artifact's In 2 Hours

The latest game by Valve – Dota Underlords – has just got into the open beta phase on PC, and a while later on mobile. But what is amazing is that just after 2 hours the game hit the mobile platform, its concurrent player number has surpassed its concurrent player number of Artifact – the last game by Valve on Steam.

The high Artifact’s concurrent player number stands at 60,740, while just 2 hours after hitting the mobile platform, Dota Underlords’ concurrent player number has been 62,946. In this weekend, the concurrent player number of this game is skyrocketing. Its highest number has been 176,633 on Friday night (June 21st). At the moment this article is being written, the concurrent player number of Dota Underlords is 154,035.

There are many reasons for this huge number of concurrent players of Dota Underlords. First of all, this game is free. Meanwhile, you will have to pay $20 dollars (nearly Rs 1400) for Valve to play Artifact. But the true reason is the huge attraction of “auto chess” genre of games, which was just invented earlier this year. In January Drodo Studio – a mobile game developer – has presented us “Dota Auto Chess” – a mod of the game Dota 2 by Valve. And this title has attracted a huge number of players in a very short time since this new game genre is really attractive to gamers. We even had some tournaments for this title.

Ever since then, Valve has had a team to design their own “auto chess” game for Dota 2, and Dota Underlords has clearly proved that it will be a successful game for Valve. The love for “auto chess” genre of games is so huge that Riot Game has produced its own “auto chess” game for League of Legends, which is called Team Fight Tactics. And this game mod has been taking over Twitch in the recent days, mostly because this game mod is still in the testing server, so streamers around the world are streaming Team Fight Tactics for their fans.