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Doodle Empires

Doodle Empires

Doodle Empires is an alternate history sandbox game all about drawing your own nations with your own histories and stories in a variety of maps. Watch your world take shape and evolve over time, and decide which nations will rise and which nations will fall.

Released May 30, 2025 Developer Turtle Stack Games Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux SimulationStrategyAlternate HistoryHistoricalGod Game
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-09-10)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-16.

92.4%positive1,285 reviews

What reviewers agree on

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Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-16

Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“This game was overall really good i would Recommend this to my friends although there are some bugs that get really annoying because they make no logical sense. 1.You would have to found a religion when the country already had one 2.you could paint into other country's territory…”

— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“Genuinely amazing game, if you like history, geography, and drawing, then this is genuinely for you. Not to mention the fire updates devs keep dropping too! There may be a few "BIG" bugs here and there, but it's actually very easy to work around and avoid if you don't like the…”

— a player, Steam review · 98 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Absolutely AMAZING potential for this game. I think that at the moment it is in its most primitive state and has all the room in the world to improve. So far is a good game for someone like me, who likes to create their own scenarios. I think an added feature that keeps track of…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

217all-time peak
0 100 200 2026 105 avg · Dec 2025

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$6.99current · sampled 2026-09-10 20:53 UTC
$6.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-25
US6.99 USD
EU6.89 EUR
UK5.89 GBP
Australia10.25 AUD
Canada8.99 CAD
Japan800 JPY
Brazil23.50 BRL
China29.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$4.3 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$8.0

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-10). Relative comparison only.

$0 $5 $10 07-25 08-03 08-12 08-22 09-01 09-10

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 07, 2026
Fort/Marker Name Addition

- Added random Chinese fort/marker names - Added random South Asian fort/marker names - Added random Mesoamerican fort/marker names - Fixed loading saves made after a settle tribe card

Aug 28, 2026
Leaderboard Update

​- Added Leaderboard section to the notebook, which shows various stats in order of largest to smallest. The categories are land area for nations, faiths, origins, and groups, as well as number of mem

Aug 28, 2026
Leaderboard Update

​- Added Leaderboard section to the notebook, which shows various stats in order of largest to smallest. The categories are land area for nations, faiths, origins, and groups, as well as number of mem

Jul 28, 2026
North America Update

​- Added New North America Map - Updated the way Resolution Settings work (This may or may not fix the flashing screen bug for Linux users) - Added Random Slavic nation names - Added a Random Name but

Jun 21, 2026
Borders Update

​- Added borders to all nations, faiths, origins, and groups - Added random faith name button - Added text above color bar showing how much draw power is left - Redesigned game settings menu - Added h

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-16.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Player tagsSimulation · Strategy · Alternate History · Historical · God Game · Sandbox · Turn-Based Strategy · Wargame · 2D · Indie · Singleplayer · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Workshop · Includes level editor · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10