Onward

🎯 The Goal

Command a team of powerful heroes in a tabletop Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), working to outmaneuver your opponents, farm automated minions, destroy defensive turrets, and ultimately shatter the enemy team’s base Nexus.

⚙️ Core Actions

The game replicates the fast-paced, lanes-and-objectives structure of video games like League of Legends or Dota 2 on a strategic grid map:

• Draft Your Roster: Assemble a balanced team of heroes with distinct role archetypes, choosing between tanky frontline initiators, high-damage ranged carries, or utility-focused supports.
• Manage Lane Creeps: Automated minion waves (“creeps”) spawn and march down dedicated paths every round. Last-hitting these minions grants your heroes vital gold and experience points.
• Level Up and Unlock Skills: As your heroes gain experience, advance their character dashboards to unlock advanced combat skills, reduce cooldown timers, and unleash devastating ultimate abilities.
• Purchase Item Builds: Spend your hard-earned gold at the base shop to buy equipment cards, customizing your heroes with stat boosts like lifestyle, critical strike chance, or spell armor.
• Siege Turf and Turrets: Coordinate pushes to chip away at the health pools of automated defensive turrets. Destroying outer towers is the only way to breach the enemy base and expose their vulnerable Nexus.
• Navigate Fog of War: Utilize bushes and choke points on the map to orchestrate deadly “ganks” (surprise ambushes), catching overextended enemy heroes out of position to force lengthy respawn timers.

🧠 Why you’ll like it

It is a brilliant tactical adaptation that perfectly captures the mechanical satisfaction and strategic depth of a PC MOBA without requiring a screen. The interplay between farming AI minions for economic growth and choosing the exact moment to force a team fight creates a beautifully tense competitive loop. For fans of tactical skirmishers who love theory-crafting character builds, controlling map territory, and executing high-synergy combos, it delivers a thrilling arena experience.