

You'll create mythical creatures and abstract concepts, modern machines and social systems. Oli combined sand and alcohol on holiday recently, and invented sunburn.īut these are just the first basic steps in a game that will take you through the entire history of the cosmos, as depicted through simple picture tiles. Now combine energy and swamp, and marvel at the fact that you have called forth life itself. Combine air and fire, and you create "energy". So, for example, you put earth and water together and - in a quick burst of hallelujah - you've created the concept of "swamp". It's up to you to start combining things to see what happens. The game starts with just four tiles: earth, air, fire and water. And it's not really a puzzle game, even though there are times when it will have you scratching your head for days.

Despite the title, it's not really a god game, although you will be creating more things than you ever did in Civilization. Doodle God is actually that rarest of things, a game that refuses to fit into any single genre and so has instead created its own. After all, only desperate shovelware knock-offs use the ubiquitous "Doodle" prefix to ensnare the undiscriminating, right?

Doodle God has been around for a while but, as a discerning gamer who refuses to follow the common herd, there's a good chance you've flicked past it while browsing the App Store or Android Market.
