Games like Doodle Empires
If Doodle Empires is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sekigahara 1600, Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator and Drag and Conquer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dedicated developer updates, contemplative and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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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Sekigahara 1600
WHY THIS
Top pick for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Doodle Empires.
Sekigahara, 1600 - and battlefields East and West, 200 AD to 1863. Contact is commitment: thread the ZOC puzzle, and any unit left in an enemy zone of control must attack. No quiet flanks, nothing held back. Pushing the line is the game. A hex-and-counter wargame tuned by a wargamer.
Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Doodle Empires.
A sandbox world simulator where you generate a world and watch history emerge from interacting systems. Track wars, alliances, economies, cities, families, and individuals, then zoom from shifting borders to personal lives.
Drag and Conquer
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Doodle Empires.
A fast-paced, easy-to-learn grand strategy game. Drag your orders across the map and conquer enemy territory. Manage your economy to keep your armies supplied with troops and equipment. Play historical 20th-century scenarios or create your own in an advanced editor.
Mandate Order
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Doodle Empires.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Doodle Empires.
Ranked #5 for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
WorldBox - God Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a relaxing mood with Doodle Empires.
Ranked #6 for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Unity of Command II
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Doodle Empires fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Doodle Empires.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Doodle Empires at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Doodle Empires on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Doodle Empires.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Doodle Empires.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Doodle Empires.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Doodle Empires
- Does Doodle Empires run on Steam Deck?
- Doodle Empires is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Doodle Empires cost?
- Doodle Empires is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Doodle Empires?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Doodle Empires are Sekigahara 1600, Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator, Drag and Conquer.
- Who developed Doodle Empires?
- Doodle Empires was developed by Turtle Stack Games.
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