Heavily asymmetric game with large armies and role-focused heroes. Has clever and thematic mechanics for troop upgrades and management. There are only 6 heroes to choose from on each team!
Experiments with 'chambered abilities' in hero design.
Ultimates become available based on damage taken, and you can get them at level 1!
3v3v3 game with lots of contestable economic objectives for players to battle over.
A dark-fantasy themed game inspired primarily by League of Legends. It periodically offers team quests which act as mapwide objectives.
Tightly-designed game which does a lot with the few mechanics it has chosen to include.
Refinement on the perSonas formula of picking two heroes.
Players pick two heroes and play as a tag-team. Has fluid and unpredictable hero combat.
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.