Player Hosted allows players to customize their games and then host them to a list for others to join. Co-op matches players either with other players or with bots against a team of bots. The different game modes are: Co-op, Player Hosted, Normal, and Casual. Players achieve this by selecting heroes with unique skills to combat the other team. The goal of the game is to either destroy the central structure, world tree (Legion) or Sacrificial Shrine (Hellbourne), of the opposite base or force the other team to concede. Bases consist of buildings, creep spawn points, towers, a hero spawning pool, and a central structure.

Both teams are based at opposite corners of the map in their respective bases. Heroes of Newerth pits two teams of players against each other: the Legion and the Hellbourne. On December, 13 2021 the Heroes of Newerth team announced plans to terminate the game in 2022.

The game was released on and re-released as a free-to-play game on July 29, 2011. The game idea was derived from the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map Defense of the Ancients and is S2 Games’ first MOBA title. Heroes of Newerth is a free to play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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