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Canvas of Kings
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
57 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“if youre making a map for your dnd towns and cities, this is phenomenal. i think it could use more stuff to add, but honestly theres already a tone here. would highly reccomend for a dm looking for a custom town map,…”
“amazing program, i used it to make all of my DnD maps”
“Very useful, a good blend of manual control and autofill. It does get laggy with bigger settlements though.”
17 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“if youre making a map for your dnd towns and cities, this is phenomenal. i think it could use more stuff to add, but honestly theres already a tone here. would highly reccomend for a dm looking for a custom town map,…”
“an incredible mapmaking tool, very clearly a labour of love with a thriving and active community sharing maps and assets. the hand drawn aspect gives everything a cosy feeling and the subtle animations make a static map…”
5 of the 72 reviews raise this.
5 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“an incredible mapmaking tool, very clearly a labour of love with a thriving and active community sharing maps and assets. the hand drawn aspect gives everything a cosy feeling and the subtle animations make a static map…”
10 of the 72 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“if youre making a map for your dnd towns and cities, this is phenomenal. i think it could use more stuff to add, but honestly theres already a tone here. would highly reccomend for a dm looking for a custom town map,…”
“this is an amazing app, im currently using it to make the map for my dnd campaign, i love how i can set up a grid and scale it to match that of my tabletop space that way i can make great looking maps that are the…”
“Lovely tool with such an amazing aesthetic. It is truly enjoyable to peacefully build maps with this tool. Exporting is easy. Room for improvement: I wish it could export videos, as there are animations that overlay the…”
6 of the 72 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“TLDR: Wonderful tool, doesn't work on my PC, works on my MAC... Super conflicted about this tool, everything about it makes me wanting it to be a major success so it can be the best tool for map making, fitting DMs and…”
“I love this. A friend recomended me for making TTRPG maps and it's really good. Just a few bugs like the grid not working properly with me and a couple environmental settings (lighting) that could be a little bit more…”
“Really neat tool! Can create super complex maps very very quickly, contains quite a lot of assets, includes dynamic animations... Learning curve was easy too! Can't wait to see where development goes - there's plenty of…”
5 of the 72 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“One can tell that this was a labour of love. Sure it can be buggy at times and I wish i was able to made the streets darker, but all in all I really like the game and will use it to make dnd maps for campaigns. It…”
Counted across 72 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 93.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“I bought this to assist with maps for an RPG campaign. I have figured out most of the functionality and it works well. My only gripe is that the only tileset is fantasy. If the creator would either add modern and sci-fi tilesets or allow export/import of assets so users could do…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Extremely useful tool! I use it for D&D and to make maps for my fantasy books. It pairs really well with Wonderdraft, which is also an amazing tool. The developer is also super helpful and active. Can't praise this enough! GET IT!”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“I'm not an artist. I have grand visions, but much difficulty in making them reality. I have so many maps and cities and scenes in my head that I've wanted to do justice to. Now I can. Ok, dramatics aside. I really do have trouble with creating maps and such, and many programs,…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Water Height and Color
Water can now be raised. A waterfall forms at the edge of raised water. The gradient of the waterfall can be adjusted. The water color can now be set individually for each body of water. You can also
Geometric Shapes
Geometric Shapes for paths, plots, and rooms: For example, you can place a forest or room directly as a customizable circle, rectangle, or hexagon Keep Scale and Keep Rotation for paths, plots, and ro
Update
Paths and Plots can now be selected centrally, similar to rooms, and can thus be moved or rotated completely. When copying normal objects, the attached objects are now also copied, for example, a crat
Various things
Plateau Plot: With adjustable gradient, surface texture, surface texture rotation, edge texture (none, slope, various cliffs) and contour lines for elevation levels. Plateau Plot: Automatically replac
Undo/Redo Reworked
Undo/Redo now applies to objects, paths, plots, rooms, deco images/labels/legend, multi select, environment, map settings, and groups.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Sandbox · Building · Relaxing · Medieval · Design & Illustration · Dungeons & Dragons · Cute · Level Editor · Procedural Generation · Cozy · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Workshop · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 1 |
| Official site | https://mightofmerchants.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or later Processor: Intel i5-2500K or similar Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 470 8GB Storage: 4 GB available space Additional Notes: Requirements may change