Doodle Empires
Fair · Strategy · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.59. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 5 times in the 16 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator ($5.24, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Fantasy Map Simulator ($5.99, scores 63).
This site sampled 395 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Players
93 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 15:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Doodle Empires scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3438800/doodle-empiresReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Sep 30.
A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.