History VideoGame / OrcsMustDieUnchained

After a long open beta period, the game was released as free to play on April 20th, 2017. After a lengthy period of poor performance, the game was eventually shut down on April 8, 2019.

* WeaponOfChoice: All heroes carry one, such as Max's crossbow, Gabriella's wand, or Tundra's sceptre. Many heroes also have a signature trap that gives certain bonuses when used by that hero, usually in the form of damage or cost.

After a long open beta period, the game was released as free to play on April 20th, 2017. The game is set to be shut down on April 8, 2019.

After a long open beta period, the game was released as free to play on April 20th, 2017.

* SignatureWeapon: All heroes carry one, such as Max's crossbow, Gabriella's wand, or Tundra's sceptre. Many heroes also have a signature trap that gives certain bonuses when used by that hero, usually in the form of damage or cost.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Heroes who would normally be fighting for the Order or Unchained can be found fighting side by side, and against their own faction, both as players and NPC heroes.

* TookALevelInbadass: Guardian NPC units are ''much'' more powerful than they were in previous games and able to kill huge numbers of enemy minions, and youc anc arry two on every loadout without taking up a spot for traps. However, they have the downside in that they are far fewer and can only be placed at specific points on each map.

** You actually can ''not'' close off all entrances to the rift with barricades, as tempting as it is. You also can't completely block all routes between the enemy's starting point and the rift.
** Orcs will attack barricades if the player is hiding right behind or on top of them, but is just out of reach of their melee weapons. Melee heroes who try to stand inside a barricade-formed chokepoint will find the barricades taking splash damage from orcs; Blackpaw is especially vulnerable to this.

* PromotedToPlayable: Many of the elite enemy units and Guardians in the first two games have received special playable heroes in ''Unchained''. Stinkeye, for example, is a Cyclops Mage hero, while Bionka is a Ball-and-Chain hero, Blackpaw is a Gnoll Hunter hero, and Bloodspike is an Orc hero. Similarly, Dobbin is a Dwarf grenadier hero, and Ivy is an Elf archer hero.

* VillainProtagonist: Many of the heroes who would be fighting on the Unchained side are playable.

* ChainLightning: Lightning damage jumps to multiple targets when a minion is killed by it. This makes lightning traps like Wall Chargers and Zappers and electrical heroes like Cygnus and Maximilian ideal for eliminating large groups.

The game is currently in public beta and is free to play.

The game also featured a "Siege" gameplay mode, in which players competed in the traditional MOBA style of competitive multiplayer, with their own customized loadouts of traps, minions, and guardians. However, while this mode did feature a small but hardcore player base, it was largely unpopular, and Robot Entertainment chose to eliminate it and rebalance the gameplay around cooperative player-versus-enemy survival.

** There is a limit on how many traps a player can place at once, and certainly no where near enough to entirely cover a map. The game does advise though that players start placing inexpensive traps early in a match, then replace them with smaller numbers of more expensive traps later to maintain lethality while being able to spread them across more lanes.

** The Baths make a return from the original ''Orcs Must Die!'', remade into an OMDU level.
** The Falling Folly is a recreation of the geometry from the original ''Orcs Must Die!''

[[caption-width-right:450:TheOrder's [[OrderReborn back]], baby!]]