Steam app 3438800 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 19:26 UTC
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.
718 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
17 months, May 2025 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 436 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 282 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Doodle Empires was released on 30 May, 2025.
| Language | Full audio |
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| English |
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36 developer announcements, Jun 2025 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
- 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
Patch notes- 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 members for faiths, origins, and groups.…
Patch notes- 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 members for faiths, origins, and groups.…
Patch notes- 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 button for Forts/Markers, which currently…
Patch notes- 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 hints when hovering over cards/mechanics…
Patch notesI forgot to finish adding the tribal/settled nation switch button to half of the maps(Oops), but this patch fixes that lol :)
Patch notes- Fixed drawing sound looping forever in free draw mode - Added an "Are You Sure?" pop up before nation/faith is deleted - Added button in nation inspector to switch nations between a settled nation and a tribe - Added South Asian nation…
Patch notes- Added a Free Draw mode where you can infinitely draw on the map - Added Random Nation Name button, which currently includes Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Mesopotamian, Chinese, and Historical name options (I did my best to make the names…
Patch notes- Added disable found religion button in nation inspector to make specific nation unable to draw the Found Religion card - Added Limit Founding setting in the game settings menu that will automatically disable the Found Religion card after…
Patch notes- Added Tribal Yurt icon next to tribal nations' names in the nation inspector - Fixed migration expansion starting immediately after erasing territory. You now have to let go of left click, and then hold left click again to start drawing…
Patch notes- Fixed notebook scroll bar - Fixed spread religion card not being affected by refresh button - Added Tribes, which are nomadic nations that can migrate You can spawn in a tribe with the New Tribe card, and when you draw an expand card it…
Patch notes- Added a Disaster card that will allow the player to erase a random amount of owned territory from the map (The min/max range of how much can be erased can be changed in the game settings) - Added Notebook that can be used to write notes…
Patch notes- Added search bars to scenario menu, custom map menu, load game menu, new game menu, dead nations list, and groups list - Added group states, which allows groups to be either an alliance, crisis, or neutral. Alliance can't expand into…
Patch notes- Fixed bug where random nation was showing the previous selected nation's group in the inspector - Updated West Africa map's biomes, so that it's using the same biome map as the other maps - Redesigned the new game menu, so that it uses a…
Patch notes- Added Groups that nations can be added/removed from at any time - Members of the same group are not able to expand into each other's territory - Added Groups map mode - Added dead nations list, which allows for reviving old nations that…
Patch notes- Fixed bug where random nation button wasn't working at times- Fixed Afro-Eurasia preview image in scenarios menu- Added an end age button that will appear below the draw power bar when in an age
Patch notes- Fixed issue where turning off marker cursor wasn't working- Fixed problem with game deleting faiths prematurely causing issues with expands, unites, and random nation button
Patch notes- Fixed Issue with Spread Religion button- Added regional names to Afro-Eurasia map- Changed how game detects when a nation/faith has been destroyed- The Conqueror, Expansionist, and The Great traits will now be more common during the Age…
Patch notes- Added Afro-Eurasia Map- Hitting tab is now a toggle for forts/markers- Added a Spread Religion card, which shows up when zealous leaders draw Adopt Religion- Increased max card chance from 10 to 20 in the game settings screen
Patch notes- Game will now only check to see if a nation/faith has been destroyed if it was affected last turn, which should reduce lag- Fixed mistake where the function checking if faiths are destroyed was checking through the list of nations…
Patch notes- Added Undo/Redo buttons to the Map Maker (Can also do ctrl + z/ ctrl + y)- Added Bucket tool to Map Maker- Added ability to save games as Scenarios- Added Refresh Button to skip cards, or possibly fix softlocked saves- Redesigned New…
PaleTanTan- Fixed bug where you could draw in the ocean of custom maps- Added ability to hold the left shift key to only draw in unclaimed territory- Added Great Expand card, which will appear when leaders with "The Great" leader trait draw a Large…
Patch notes- Added biomes to the Appalachia map- Seperated map modes onto individual tilemaps that will update as you draw instead of updating the entire map on one tilemap when switching map modes. This will massively reduce/eliminate lag seen when…
Patch notes- Updated Central Europe map with new biomes- Political and Terrain map mode buttons in the Map Maker- Old terrain and new biome overlays are now on seperate tilemaps with different opacities for better map visuals- Game now only saves…
Patch notes- Added new biomes to the Earth map - Saves made on old versions of maps will now use the updated version We're in the home stretch as far as map updates are concerned! I did mess around with the save loading a little to make sure older…
Patch notes- Updated Europe map with new terrain types - Changed Age card weights to go to 0 when in an Age instead of giving you a New Leader card - Updated Doodle Barons list in credits
Patch notes- Added new biomes to the Britain map - Added new biomes to the South Asia map - Decreased biome transparency within nation borders to make border colors more consistent
Patch notes- Fixed issue with placing forts - Fixed Marker renames not saving
Patch notesThe Oceania and Middle East maps have been updated to include the new terrain types! Full list of changes below - Updated Oceania Map - Updated Middle East Map - Added X button to the marker window to cancel placement of a marker - Fixed…
Patch notesThis is the start of updating the older maps with the new terrain types! Full list of changes below - Updated Mediterranean map - Updated Caribbean map - Added labels to the terrain types in the map maker - Reoriented the terrain buttons…
Patch notesIn this update we have new terrain types, which include jungle, desert, forest, and tundra. Full list of changes below! - New Terrain Types - New Terrain Leader Traits - New Leader Trait called "The Great", which is a less common trait…
Patch notesSome small fixes and additions! Fixed edit faith color button Fixed Adopt Religion bug Fixed WASD movement when saving custom map Fixed age value not updating in the nation inspector when hitting the random nation button Increased Custom…
Patch notesA couple quick fixes and additions after the Restructure Update! Fixed edit buttons that weren't working Reduced lag from random nation button Slightly increased speed of compass spinner Added an age tracker in the different inspector…
Patch notesThis update restructures how some of the base mechanics I made early on in development function. Everything will work the same as it did before, but with less bugs along the way. I also updated The save/load system, and I’m hoping it will…
Patch notesThe Update is not out yet, but I wanna go ahead and give a warning that the next update will have some restructuring to how nation data is stored, which will make any old saves unplayable and broken. Along with that I’m also updating the…
PaleTanTan- Fixed the delete custom map button - Fixed being able to draw on water in custom map save games - Fixed Typo - Added new Doodle Barons Next Up: I'm going to be looking into different save/load methods, so we can have faster/smoother load…
Patch notesWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | Doodle Empires.exe | windows 64 | ||
| Launch | Doodle Empires Mac.app | macos | ||
| Launch | Doodle Empires.x86_64 | linux 64 |
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