Doodle Empires

Doodle Empires is an alternate-history sandbox game where you draw nations on maps and shape their histories. As the world evolves, you decide which nations rise and which fall.

Create and shape nations

Start by choosing a border color and naming a nation, then draw its borders on the map using a limited supply of drawing power. When that runs out, select a nation through its inspector and draw a card to change it. You can repeat this process to build a world of nations and their stories.

Cards let you:

• Expand: choose a small, medium or large expansion to grow a nation's borders. Expanding into unclaimed territory costs less than expanding into another nation's land.
• Split: use a regular or small split to carve a new nation from part of the selected nation.
• Union: annex another nation through a union, such as a royal union or similar treaty.
• Create a new nation: establish a nation as at the start of the game, creating a new Origin Group.
• Choose a new leader: replace the selected nation's leader with one who has new traits that affect how it expands.
• Build a castle: place and name a castle in the selected nation's territory. It protects surrounding tiles, making them more costly for other nations to take.
• Found or adopt a religion: create a new faith or adopt an existing one.
• Diverge an origin: create a new origin from the selected nation.
• Change the age: use the ages of conquest, division or unity to make different cards more common for a period of time.

Map modes

Four map modes show different aspects of the world:

• Political Mode: displays the borders of all nations.
• Origin Mode: shows which original nation each nation split from, like a culture-group map. A nation's origin is also shown in its inspector.
• Faith Mode: shows which tiles belong to each faith.
• Fort Mode: shows tiles protected by castles, which are more difficult to expand into.