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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.
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.
What reviewers agree on
57 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Its Brilliant,i wish there was a feature where you could record your gameplay so you could make it into a timeline”
“Nice game. Please add random name gen for countries and castles, and a random colour generation”
“Quite fun! The game balances the feeling of creating your own world and randomness! Love it”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The game is great! While there is not much content right now the game is updated frequently. Community great and unlike other map sim games its insanely simple. only think is it need a tutorial for features badly.”
“Its fun and constant updates”
“An amazing game with lots of potential and a dedicated dev, while a bit ehh in its current state, I can't wait to see where this goes.”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Doodle Empires is a creative strategy sandbox that turns map drawing and fictional worldbuilding into an unexpectedly addictive experience. Developed and published by Turtle Stack Games, the title focuses less on…”
“I can make history whatever i want”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Its a good game, but the glitch where you place a capital city and every time you click with your mouse it doesn't stop placing capitals and you lose progress from having to close the game from inside steam.”
“This would be an awesome game but the markers are absolutely terrible. If you select one, you can't unselect it, and if you try to delete it or open settings, it just spawns another marker/icon. You don't even have to…”
“Amazing game I'd give 8.5/10 I'd reccomend but I will tell you about some things there is thing that allows you to place capital cities I found that if you use it too much it bugs and spam places even in the menu But…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“It's good but not recommended in this current state, the current version of the map maker needs a lot of QoL updates, and there needs to be more modes added other than this current "half sandbox half random card pull"…”
“Its really good id reccommend senarios otherwise crap”
“Really cool idea. The only thing it lacks is a sandbox mode where you could just mess about as if it was MS-paint with a map”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“This would be an awesome game but the markers are absolutely terrible. If you select one, you can't unselect it, and if you try to delete it or open settings, it just spawns another marker/icon. You don't even have to…”
“It's good but not recommended in this current state, the current version of the map maker needs a lot of QoL updates, and there needs to be more modes added other than this current "half sandbox half random card pull"…”
“It's clearly not a finished product, but there is something intriguing about drawing out empires on maps and seeing how the world changes. The catch--you have to remember this is early in the project because there are…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“It's good but not recommended in this current state, the current version of the map maker needs a lot of QoL updates, and there needs to be more modes added other than this current "half sandbox half random card pull"…”
“Suprisingly addictive game and well made. But a timeline and multiplayer mode where you each take turns would be good and an option to just let you only controll one piece of land and have to take over others and to…”
“One of the best games I’ve ever played! It’s so fun to build up and destroy the little empires you make and I love the way you do it! Every turn you get a random card is really cool. I would also love if there was a PVP…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“this game is awsome but plz do more updates”
“It's clearly not a finished product, but there is something intriguing about drawing out empires on maps and seeing how the world changes. The catch--you have to remember this is early in the project because there are…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-16
“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“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“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 playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
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.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
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
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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-16.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Alternate History · Historical · God Game · Sandbox · Turn-Based Strategy · Wargame · 2D · Indie · Singleplayer · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Workshop · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10