Open Doctrines Guide: How to Play

How to play

Open the GameTio Open Doctrines game page, select Play, then choose Run game on the developer’s itch.io page. The official page lists this as an HTML5 browser game.

What do you manage?

The page describes a grand strategy game in which you run a country, managing industry, armies, research, politics and neighbours. Provinces have population, industry, fortification and resources; countries have a treasury and research programme.

What scenarios and map tools are available?

According to the page, six scenarios cover Modern Day, 1914, 1918, 1939, 1945 and 1962 on a 1,641-province world map. The map editor lets you draw land and sea, divide provinces and place countries, populations, resources and claims.

What are the alpha and browser limitations?

The description calls this an unfinished alpha and explicitly says there is no tutorial yet, despite an interactive-tutorial badge in the information table. The browser build cannot host multiplayer. The developer says signing in, the map, map editor and mods work in a browser; these claims have not been gameplay-tested by GameTio.

GameTio has not played the game, and these details come from the official page.