Tastefully weaves capture-the-flag and control point objectives into the classic lane-pushing victory formula.
Buy and upgrade tanks with weapons that automatically fire at nearby enemies, or specialise in smuggling goods behind enemy lines.
3v3v3 game with lots of contestable economic objectives for players to battle over.
Tightly-designed game which does a lot with the few mechanics it has chosen to include.
Action-oriented game in which players pick a tag-team of two heroes, and collect points that enable them to transform into titans.
The original 'DotA 2'. It has a large battlefield with distinct towns to capture: each contributing different lane troops and selling its own items.
Prioritised having a flexible meta and streamlined a number of game systems to make the genre more accessible. The game allowed its community to steer the direction of the story through an accompanying webcomic, and was considered very successful at engaging its players in world-building and lore.
An ambitious and heavily-featured game of grand strategy. Teams first select one of four factions (Elves, Orcs, Creeps, Undead) which each have their own armies and hero pools. They then battle on one of five maps of wildly varying sizes, each with different objectives.
Players can destroy and rebuild outposts, construct towers and fortify their bases, reinforce specific lanes with extra troops, or re-route lanes to different locations. The heroes each have six abilities which can be empowered with a range of talents, while upgradable items can shore up weaknesses or bolster their strengths.
EotA: Twilight shares a universe with two other games: a co-op survival called EotA: Exodus and a team escape called EotA: Maze.
Has an alternative victory condition: gather three keys, and perform a ritual at the center of the map to win.
The earliest PvP lane-pushing game on Warcraft III, featuring three lanes and five capture points.