How many copies has Doodle Empires sold?

indielist estimates Doodle Empires has sold between 31,752 and 74,088 units (median 52,920), derived from its 1,176 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Doodle Empires?

Doodle Empires was published by Turtle Stack Games, developed by Turtle Stack Games. See Turtle Stack Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Doodle Empires released?

Doodle Empires was released in 2025.

How many reviews does Doodle Empires have on Steam?

Doodle Empires has 1,176 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Doodle Empires worth playing?

Steam players rate Doodle Empires 92% positive across 1,176 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Doodle Empires

May 30, 2025 Indie $6.99

Developer Turtle Stack Games Publisher Turtle Stack Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Simulation and strategy drive this alternate history god game, aimed at players seeking a historical indie game with sandbox-style empire building. Released in 2025 by Turtle Stack Games, Doodle Empires has 1,144 Steam reviews at 92% positive and a $6.99 budget price.

Doodle Empires is a 2025 Indie game developed by Turtle Stack Games and published by Turtle Stack Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,176 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Turtle Stack Games with publisher Turtle Stack Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 32,000 to 74,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Doodle Empires can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,176

Positive

92%

Steam appid

3438800

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

32K to 74K

units (median: 53K)

≈ $127K to $296K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

32K median 74K

+ How is this calculated?

1,176 reviews × NB(45) = 52,920 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$7	-5
positive_92%	+10
final NB	45

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Doodle Empires at roughly 32,000 to 74,000 copies, with a median around 53,000, derived from its 1,176 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $211K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

14 observed days · window low $6.99

Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-06-03.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Doodle Empires sold?: indielist estimates Doodle Empires has sold between 31,752 and 74,088 units (median 52,920), derived from its 1,176 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Doodle Empires?: Doodle Empires was developed by Turtle Stack Games and published by Turtle Stack Games.
Who published Doodle Empires?: Doodle Empires was published by Turtle Stack Games, developed by Turtle Stack Games. See Turtle Stack Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Doodle Empires released?: Doodle Empires was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Doodle Empires have on Steam?: Doodle Empires has 1,176 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Doodle Empires worth playing?: Steam players rate Doodle Empires 92% positive across 1,176 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Doodle Empires can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Fantasy Map Simulator, Root, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Ultimate General: Civil War, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Turtle Stack Games's other releases and Turtle Stack Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Doodle Empires sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Doodle Empires page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.