Doodle Harbor

⚓ About Doodle Harbor

Doodle Harbor is a fast time-management tycoon built around a single queue: hand-drawn ships arrive continuously and wait at your docks, each with its own patience meter counting down. Tap a waiting ship, then tap an open dock, and it starts unloading -- ignore the queue too long and a ship's patience runs out and it leaves angry, no cargo delivered.

Coins earned from unloaded cargo fund three upgrade paths: Add Dock (more berths to work with at once), Faster Crane (a flat percentage speed-up on every unload), and Extra Patience (stretches how long ships will wait before storming off). Because more docks also means more simultaneous ships to track, upgrading isn't purely additive -- a busier harbor is also a harder one to keep on top of.

How to Play

1. Watch the queue of waiting ships, each with a patience meter ticking down toward zero.
2. Tap a ship in the queue, then tap an empty dock to send it in and start unloading its cargo automatically.
3. Unloaded cargo earns coins; spend them on Add Dock, Faster Crane (+15% unload speed per level), and Extra Patience (+20% ship patience per level).
4. Prioritize ships closest to losing their patience over ships that just arrived, even if a newer ship is carrying more valuable cargo.
5. Keep the harbor moving continuously -- once you're managing several docks at once, gaps of inactivity are where ships start walking away unhappy.

Extra Patience is worth buying earlier than it might seem necessary, since a few extra seconds of buffer per ship compounds into a lot more breathing room once you're juggling three or four docks at full speed. When two ships are close to leaving at the same time, dock the one that's closer to running out first even if it means a slightly longer wait for the other -- losing a ship entirely costs more than a ship that waited a bit longer than ideal.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens if a ship's patience runs out?

It leaves without unloading -- you get no coins from that ship, so letting patience hit zero is a pure loss, not just a delay. Managing the queue so no ship's patience bottoms out is the core challenge of the game.

What do the three upgrades actually do?

Add Dock gives you another berth so more ships can unload at once, Faster Crane adds +15% unload speed per level, and Extra Patience adds +20% patience per level, giving every ship more time to wait before storming off.

Does having more docks make the game easier?

Not purely -- more docks let you unload more ships in parallel, but it also means more simultaneous patience meters to track at once, so the harbor gets genuinely busier and harder to manage even as your capacity grows.