Doodle Baseball: Proof That Simple Games Age the Best Not every great game needs a massive world or a 40-hour storyline. Sometimes, all it takes is a bat, a pitch, and a perfectly timed click. That’s exactly why doodle baseball still works years after it first appeared. It’s tiny. It’s playful. It’s almost ridiculously simple. And yet every time I load it up, I end up caring way more than I expect. It starts as nostalgia. It ends as competition.