There seems no stopping to the hypetrain that is Dota Auto Chess. Merely a week and a half after acquiring an impressive 4 million subscribers in the Steam Workshop, the Dota 2 mod has reached the next milestone: 5 million subscribers.

Launched in January this year, Dota Auto Chess quickly began dragging in strategy lovers left and right. The fresh combination of strategy, the Dota universe and a good balance between action and downtime proved to be a perfect recipe, especially for those tired of stale metas and quiet periods in games like Dota 2 and Hearthstone.

Although the development team at Drodo Studio consists only of five people, Auto Chess is being regularly updated. Just yesterday changes were implemented to combat a sudden explosion of hackers, in addition to three new pieces joining the game mode.

Fans have a lot to look forward to too, content-wise. The developers have expressed their desire to ultimately include every Dota 2 hero in Auto Chess. To put that in perspective: currently the roster has just under 60 pieces, whereas Dota 2 features 120 heroes. However, with Auto Chess' rapid growth in population, it's not unthinkable Valve steps in and acquires the mod before all Dota heroes are even included.

(by Tom Matthiesen from invenglobal)