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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.

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May 30, 2025
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Developer
Turtle Stack Games
Publisher
Turtle Stack Games
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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. How to play:1. Create your first nation by selecting a border color and typing up a name2. Draw the borders of your new nation onto the map, while paying attention to how much drawing power you have left at the top3.

Once out of drawing power, click a nation to open the nation inspector, and hit the select button.4. Draw a new card on the top right, which will allow you to alter the selected nation further5. RepeatCard Types:EXPAND: There are three expand card types, which are small, medium and large expand, and they allow you to grow the borders of your selected nation. NOTE: Expanding into unclaimed territory will be much cheaper than trying to expand into the land of other nationsSPLIT: There are two split card types, which are the regular split and the small split, and both will cause you to carve out a new nation out of a portion of whatever nation you selected bfore drawing the cardUNION: The union card allows your selected nation to fully annex another nation as if part of a royal union or similar treatyNEW NATION: The new nation card will allow you to create a…

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★ 9.3/10Steam · 1,368 ratings
SteamLast checked November 5, 2026

Most helpful8

Not recommended
Honest review: The community on discord is heavily hostile, wouldn't reccomend joining it. Lack of good updates from the developer no modding Developer doesnt update…
Recommended
The game is a turn-based world builder of sorts. You are given a certain amount of points to draw (doodle) an area where the first…
Recommended
Such an incredible game if you want to practice storytelling and worldbuilding. Doodle Empires has such a simple yet effective premise that really lets players…
Recommended
its fun for pepole that like sandbox games but is not just a sandbox and a little bit diffrent.
Recommended
fun game, played it when it was only a demo. little to no hardware restrictions, great game. this is mainly a roleplaying game, its in…
Recommended
Great game for those with a large imagination/willingness to remember a lot of imaginative material, but not a "game" in the typical sense. It gives…
Recommended
very fun simple world politics sandbox. Draw kingdoms & tribes freely or let the game walk you through it with a "draw card" system. It…
Recommended
Great game. lots of customisation you can add to the map. tons of ways to play, would recommend to anyone who loves alt history and…

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Not recommended
Honest review: The community on discord is heavily hostile, wouldn't reccomend joining it. Lack of good updates from the developer no modding Developer doesnt update…
Recommended
The game is a turn-based world builder of sorts. You are given a certain amount of points to draw (doodle) an area where the first…
Recommended
Such an incredible game if you want to practice storytelling and worldbuilding. Doodle Empires has such a simple yet effective premise that really lets players…
Recommended
GAME IS SO COOL FOR HISTORY LOVERS,IM NOT A BOT HIPPOPOTUMISSWEPTALIAPHOBIA
Recommended
its fun for pepole that like sandbox games but is not just a sandbox and a little bit diffrent.

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