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Doodle Empires

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2025

Should you play it?

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 works

  • High creative freedom and map customization
  • Addictive and relaxing gameplay
  • Good replayability and niche appeal
  • Emergent storytelling and worldbuilding
  • Fair price for scope

Things to keep in mind

  • Frequent bugs and lag issues
  • Lack of tutorial and ui polish
  • Repetitive rng card draws
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Slow saving and occasional crashes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Roots of Yggdrasil

  • Tingus Goose

  • CleanFall

  • AutoForge

  • Planetary Life

  • Tower Tactics: Liberation

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Doodle Empires but with more leadership over others

  • Fate of the World: Tipping Point

  • King's Orders

  • Making History: The Great War

  • Deity Empires

  • Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升

  • Supreme Ruler Ultimate

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Doodle Empires: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026