Dokapon UP crosses over two different game series: Sting’s Dokapon and Aquaplus’s Utawarerumono. At its core, it plays like other games in the Dokapon series: players move around a game board by rolling a die, compete in mini-games, and engage in battle with other players on the same square. The traditional Dokapon RPG elements are here too, with players having different classes and the ability to level up their stats over gameplay. The characters and setting, meanwhile, come from Utawarerumono; players choose one of many Utawarerumono characters to play as, and the different board areas are all based on settings from those games as well. In the single-player story mode, players control regular series protagonist Hakuoro.