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Canvas of Kings

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94%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
94% User Score Based on 564 reviews

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Canvas of Kings is a single player casual role playing game with medieval and historical themes. It was developed by Hannes Breuer and was released on August 3, 2023. It received very positive reviews from players.

Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive paths, plots and rooms. Use flexible paths and plots You can define your map with paths and plots that you can adjust at any time. The automatic object placement supports you. In this way, you can directly create a wall with towers or simply an entire forest. …

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94%Audience ScoreBased on 564 reviews
graphics15 positive mentions
stability8 negative mentions
  • Highly intuitive and easy to use with a minimal learning curve that allows rapid creation of detailed towns, cities, and landscapes suitable for TTRPG campaigns.
  • Beautiful, unique hand-drawn art style that includes dynamic animations such as moving birds, swaying trees and flickering lights, bringing maps to life.
  • Active and engaged solo developer regularly releasing updates and responsive to community feedback, promising continuous improvements and expansion.
  • Currently in early access with limited asset variety, mostly medieval fantasy themed, lacking features like elevation, rivers, diverse terrain types, and interior or dungeon creation.
  • Some stability and performance issues including occasional crashes, slow loading times on large maps, and bugs with map saving and exporting functionality.
  • User interface can be confusing or small on some devices, with finicky controls, limited undo functionality, and missing quality-of-life features such as better selection tools, labeling, and customizable grids.

  • graphics

    43 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    35% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The graphics feature a charming, hand-drawn art style that is simple yet effective, creating a cohesive and aesthetically pleasing mapmaking experience. While the asset variety is currently limited and less detailed compared to professional tools, the visuals suit top-down, small-town or countryside maps well, with intuitive placement and customization. Users appreciate the unique, unified aesthetic and anticipate future updates to expand content and enhance the tool’s graphical capabilities.

    • “The visuals of the in-game elements have a magnificent art style and fit well with a “homebrew” ttrpg setting.”
    • “The art style is beautiful, the placement feels smooth, and the level of detail you can add makes every map feel alive.”
    • “The plot tools save time making areas for camps, towns or forests that will auto-fill with content, and the asset editor makes it really easy to kitbash new assets while maintaining the visual style of the pre-made assets, which I really appreciate since the art style is what initially drew my attention to this map-making tool.”
    • “You can make battlemaps with this, but the graphics are still far too basic to hold up to the likes of dungeondraft or dungeon alchemist.”
    • “The current asset library, although aesthetically pleasing, is fairly limited.”
    • “Quick, easy to pick up and its giving me some amazing vibes on the layout tools, my only complaint is it has crashed my clunker 3 times by overloading the graphics card during loading new sections.”

  • story

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    18% positive mentions, 64% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions

    Users appreciate the app's charming, simple design that fosters creativity in storytelling and world-building, particularly for roleplaying and Dungeons & Dragons. While the tool effectively supports creating detailed maps and plots, some limitations and bugs with plot editing and resizing hinder the experience. Overall, it holds strong potential as a versatile map maker to enhance story-driven activities.

    • “This app excels at its simplistic, calming, and overall charming appeal that roped me into it, and I have no doubt that someone on a rainy day could enjoy sitting down, placing a house, and telling a story with what they have in front of them.”
    • “I'm writing a story, and I'm using this to make a map of the world, and being able to do so in such detail has helped me so much!”
    • “I think this has the promise to be a top tier map maker for DnD or any storyteller needing to make a map or city.”
    • “In fact, the edit plots button doesn't seem to let me edit the lake plot I just made.”
    • “- The limitation on plot sizes is highly annoying.”
    • “I also experienced some wonkiness with the plot tool where structures wouldn't show up until I hit undo.”

  • optimization

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    Optimization has seen some improvements, resulting in smoother performance overall, but significant issues remain, especially with large or densely populated maps causing slowdowns, long load times, and occasional crashes. The tool appears better suited for smaller maps, with performance and asset limitations impacting usability for detailed or expansive projects.

    • “Performance has improved overall and it runs smoother than before.”
    • “I get the impression that this is more optimized for smaller maps currently, but the default canvas size is enough that if you fill the map, it really slows down.”
    • “There are some issues with performance in object dense areas, where the camera will begin to shake uncontrollably when moved; additionally maps that are 6mb+ in size seem to take an exponentially longer time to load, about 10-15 minutes, which is unfortunate for making large maps.”
    • “Significant issues with game launch and optimization.”
    • “Performance issues, crashes, very limited asset selection.”
    • “There are some issues with performance in object dense areas, where the camera will begin to shake uncontrollably when moved; additionally maps that are 6MB+ in size seem to take an exponentially longer time to load, about 10-15 minutes, which is unfortunate for making large maps.”

  • stability

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    11% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 89% negative mentions

    The game shows some stability issues, including bugs with undo functionality, occasional freezing on certain systems, and minor glitches in line placement and river creation, but these do not significantly disrupt the overall experience. Despite these bugs, it runs well and remains a solid tool for mapmaking.

    • “I had a bug on Ubuntu 25 where the game opens the explorer on startup and then freezes when it tries to launch it again.”
    • “Undo button seems to be a little buggy, not being able to actually undo; besides that, everything works great.”
    • “The ctrl+z/y situation is really buggy when it comes to rooms right now.”

  • gameplay

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The gameplay is praised for its intuitive mechanics and appealing style, offering a great experience overall. However, some users feel constrained by limited flexibility and certain mechanics that are difficult to counter, suggesting improvements could justify a higher price.

    • “An honestly great game, intuitive mechanics and inviting graphic style, I can't wait to see where this goes.”
    • “☑ it's just gameplay”
    • “The experience feels very constrained by the developer’s vision, which limits flexibility and makes it difficult to counter certain mechanics effectively.”
    • “If these are added in, and some game mechanics are improved, I would even be willing to pay $30+ for this game.”
    • “It's just gameplay.”

  • grinding

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is considered tedious and annoying, particularly when generating large bodies of water or managing dense object layouts. Players find it frustrating to adjust individual elements due to overlapping objects, making the process feel time-consuming and cumbersome.

    • “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
    • “Generating oceans and bodies of water is tedious and annoying.”
    • “It would be nice to have an option to select a specific object from an overlapping mess of objects - it's tedious and annoying to shift entire areas just to adjust a single road or move an accidentally placed object.”

  • atmosphere

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features beautifully hand-drawn visuals that effectively create a rich, atmospheric feel, especially for small towns or woodland camps. However, as an early version, it lacks sufficient variety and features—such as modern town elements and diverse widgets like furniture and transportation—to fully enhance scene atmosphere.

    • “Beautiful hand-drawn objects that create an atmospheric feel.”
    • “It gives a really great sense of atmosphere and you can make small towns or camps in the woods.”

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users find the game's humor to be quirky and amusing, particularly noting the unusual and funny depiction of the water.

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Canvas of Kings is a casual role playing game with medieval and historical themes. Common tags for Canvas of Kings include indie, family friendly, cozy, relaxing, experimental and others.

Canvas of Kings is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

Canvas of Kings was released on August 3, 2023.

Canvas of Kings was developed by Hannes Breuer.

Canvas of Kings has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Canvas of Kings for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

Canvas of Kings is a single player game.

Similar games include Dungeon Alchemist, Dungeon Painter Studio, FlowScape, Atlas Architect, Townscaper and others.