Doodle Mafia

Puzzle

Ratings

Age

13+

Games

Languages

English

Latest Version 3.2.5

Wed Apr 19 2023

Updated version contains:

- full support of recent iOS version

- ATT consent flow to help us improve the game experience

- visual improvements

- bugfixes

Doodle Mafia is a thematic evolution of the classic alchemy puzzle genre. Players combine various elements and characters to unlock new items, stories, and crimes. With over 500 combinations, the game offers a massive amount of content. The new 'City' mode allows you to watch your criminal empire or police force expand in real-time as you solve puzzles. Multiple storylines and a variety of 'Crime' and 'Law' paths ensure that every choice impacts the development of your city.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

78/100

Doodle Mafia continues the successful 'Doodle' formula by JoyBits, this time diving into the gritty world of crime and law enforcement. The core mechanic remains the same—combining two elements to create a third—but the thematic shift to gangs, heists, and city building adds a layer of complexity that was missing from earlier titles. You can play as a Crime Boss to build your empire or as a Cop to stop the chaos, providing two distinct perspectives on the same puzzle ecosystem.

The logic can sometimes be a bit 'abstract' (as is tradition for the series), leading to moments of trial-and-error that might frustrate some. However, the satisfaction of finally figuring out how to create a 'Mafia Don' or a 'SWAT team' is high. The art style is consistent with the brand, and the 'City' mode—where your combinations actually affect the visual growth of your criminal underworld—is a welcome addition that gives your progress more weight.

Dinsun reviewed on: Tue Feb 24 2026

Features

Over 500 items to combine

Dual campaign modes (Crime vs Law)

Dynamic city growth mechanic

Humorous quotes and trivia

Available in 13 languages

Tips & Walkthrough

Balancing the Elements

If you are stuck, look at the category icons. They often give a hint about what type of element (e.g., person, weapon, or place) is missing to complete a specific crime syndicate.

Gameplays

Boss vs Cop Modes

Switch between the 'Mafia' campaign to build an empire and the 'Cop' campaign to dismantle it, each featuring unique combinations and questlines.

Screenshot

Q&A

The game includes a hint system that regenerates over time, or you can use in-game currency to reveal specific combinations.

Ratings & Reviews

Innovative use of “element combination” genre

Sat Apr 13 2024 Justine Hughes

I’ve played both Doodle God and Doodle Devil, and this is by far my favorite so far. Especially notable is the introduction of actions (verb) as element type to be applied to objects (noun), such as “Explore” + “Gas Stand” to visit the gas stand and find more elements. This allows for addition of campaign mode, serving as story telling tool and adding puzzle solving to the formula. My only complaint is that when you select a combination that leads to failing a mission in the campaign mode, you are not able to read the flavor text explaining why the fail happened as they immediately get covered by a large text box prompting you to exit and try again. Please solve this by moving the text box, or allowing us to dismiss it to read the text underneath!

Perfect

Tue Aug 09 2016 Graphlover

I want more episodes getting to higher crimes like political corruption and taking on the mafia . By the way does this mean that we will never see doodle tank be updated

Translation Problems

Wed Oct 12 2016 Mediaphile

Doodle's games usually display a witty quote attributed to a historical character when you create a match. It seems like they outsourced this game though, because some of the "quotes" are very poorly worded English. Other than that it is the usual entertaining game play.