Dota 2

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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
Released: 9 Jul 2013
Price: Free to play
Platforms
Steam charts: #3 most played +2
Steam Deck: Playable
Languages: English +27
Metacritic: 90
Series: Dota

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Public builds

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Counted once we have watched for 90 days (since 21 Oct 2026)

Last 90 days · as of 27 Oct, 22:12 UTC

How this is measured

Distinct builds deployed to a game's public (default) Steam branch, as Steam's client network describes them.

Checked within minutes of each Steam change. Observed since 21 Oct 2026.

We see a game's builds only from the day we started watching it. Before that we know just the build it was on, so counts over a window are shown only for games watched for the whole window.
A build is not necessarily a content update: developers also ship fixes, and some builds change only files players never see.

Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology

Latest public build

27 Oct, 21:14 UTC

Build 26253230

Update posts

13 posts

Posts announcing an update, tagged or not

Last 365 days · as of 07:27 UTC

How this is measured

Posts in a game's official Steam news feed that announce an update: tagged as patch notes by the developer, or plainly about a patch or a released update.

An announcement is not a build. Developers can ship updates without a post, or post about several updates at once.
Untagged posts are recognised from their words, so a few updates are missed and a few other posts may be counted. Tagged posts are marked Patch notes on the Updates tab; recognised ones are marked Update.
Older posts are being read back through each game's history, most played games first, so months before October 2026 fill in over the coming days.

Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology

Typical gap between builds

46 hours

Middle gap across the last 5 builds we saw

Public Builds

Public builds of Dota 2, newest first
Build	Went live	After the one before	Patch notes
26253230	27 Oct, 21:14 UTC	26 hours	None posted
26225725	26 Oct, 19:37 UTC	2 days	None posted
26185107	24 Oct, 16:59 UTC	46 hours	None posted
26139613	22 Oct, 18:39 UTC	44 hours	None posted
26090992	20 Oct, 22:20 UTC	—	None posted

From Steam’s client network, last checked 27 Oct, 22:12 UTC. Builds before 21 Oct 2026, when we started watching, aren't listed. Patch notes are the developer’s update post from an hour before to a day after the build. Not every build gets one. How we count

Earlier Updates

Updates to Dota 2 announced on Steam before 21 Oct 2026, newest first
Posted	After the one before	Update
15 Sept 2026	47 days	7.41f Gameplay Patch Patch notes
30 Jul 2026	29 days	Gameplay Patch 7.41e and Summer Scrub Update
1 Jul 2026	27 days	Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026 Patch notes
5 Jun 2026	29 days	7.41d Gameplay Patch Patch notes
6 May 2026	29 days	7.41c Gameplay Patch Patch notes
7 Apr 2026

Test And Staging Apps

Separate Steam apps for test and staging versions of Dota 2
App	Players now	24-hour peak	Latest build	Builds seen
Dota 2 Test · App 205790	Not yet	—	9858672 · 3 Nov 2022, 04:00 UTC	1

Separate Steam apps for test, staging and playtest versions of Dota 2. They have no store page, so they aren’t counted as games or releases. Builds come from Steam’s client network, players from the Steam Web API every few hours. Steam gives no count for an app nobody can launch. How we count

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Build

Went live

After the one before

Patch notes

26253230

27 Oct, 21:14 UTC

26 hours

None posted

26225725

26 Oct, 19:37 UTC

2 days

None posted

26185107

24 Oct, 16:59 UTC

46 hours

None posted

26139613

22 Oct, 18:39 UTC

44 hours

None posted

26090992

20 Oct, 22:20 UTC

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None posted

Posted

After the one before

Update

15 Sept 2026

47 days

7.41f Gameplay Patch Patch notes

30 Jul 2026

29 days

Gameplay Patch 7.41e and Summer Scrub Update

1 Jul 2026

27 days

Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026 Patch notes

5 Jun 2026

29 days

7.41d Gameplay Patch Patch notes

6 May 2026

29 days

7.41c Gameplay Patch Patch notes

7 Apr 2026

App

Players now

24-hour peak

Latest build

Builds seen

Dota 2 Test · App 205790

Not yet

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9858672 · 3 Nov 2022, 04:00 UTC