Steam app 2498570 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 20:52 UTC
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.
716 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
38 months, August 2023 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 434 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 282 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Canvas of Kings was released on 3 Aug, 2023.
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32 developer announcements, Aug 2023 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
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 continue to set the water color globally…
Patch notesGeometric 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 rooms: This allows the next element to be…
Patch notesPaths 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 crate on a stone tower. It also works with…
Patch notesPlateau Plot: With adjustable gradient, surface texture, surface texture rotation, edge texture (none, slope, various cliffs) and contour lines for elevation levels.Plateau Plot: Automatically replaces all previous Ground Plots.Height…
Patch notesUndo/Redo now applies to objects, paths, plots, rooms, deco images/labels/legend, multi select, environment, map settings, and groups.
Patch notesNew District Plots: Auto-generated buildings, roads, and decorations in different randomly generated layouts (District of Farmers, Craftsmen and Merchants). -> Selectable layout (Grid, Curved Grid, Chessboard, Cells, Triangles, Circle). ->…
Patch notesBulk Asset Import: Several images (e.g. .png files) can be selected from a folder and imported directly as assets. Before importing, the height, search terms or tags can be set, for example. The bulk import assistant can be found in the…
Patch notesSpectator Window: An additional window without UI can be opened with options such as own camera control or following the editor camera, full screen and pausing the display. Text Labels: Can be added via the Deco Tool. Text and design can be…
Patch notesMap Settings - Multi Pages/Images Export: This allows you to directly export up to 4x4 contiguous images Map Settings - Extended Grid: This allows you to display a grid beyond the map area Map Settings - Snap Map Area To Grid Map Settings…
Patch notesNew Plot Editor: This allows you to create custom plots (currently only a forest-like plot). Assignment of up to 3 object groups. Adjustable size, chance and collision check per assigned object group. Asset Browser: Extended search with…
Patch notesAsset Editor - Switch between normal editor and asset editor at any time - Create your own custom assets (No external 3D tools e.g. Blender necessary) - Add your own textures, original textures, boxes for solid shadows, smoke sources, light…
Patch notesClick priorities adjusted. Especially if you place several rooms on top of each other and use Deco Images. Working in general with stacked rooms improved. For example, you can no longer accidentally click on an object on the first floor…
Patch notesLayer System - Create/delete/name new layers - Layer groups on first level - Arrange layers/groups using buttons or drag and drop - Hide or lock layers/groups - Panel of the layer list can be folded in and out and grows automatically…
Patch notesNew path: Walls without towers New path: Docks New path: Only battlements New objects: Houses with wood and tiled roofs Max and min limits of object scale increased Grid: Max height increased so that grid can now be placed above everything…
Patch notesRoom Tool for interiors - With auto-generated elements - Individual objects can be attached and individual generated objects can be detached - Room and objects can be moved, rotated and changed in height together - Wall and floor design can…
Patch notesStairs: Wood and stone. The path points can be raised or lowered individually. The width can also be adjusted Endless Placing Mode slightly improved Multi Select adjusted Several bug fixes and small optimizations
Patch notesWater: Performance increased Water: Combination system improved Water: River course now better adjustable Water: Size limit of Lake and Ocean removed Land Plots/Castle Surface: Performance increased Land Plots/Castle Surface: Size limit…
Patch notesSave file size reduced by up to around 50% Save speed increased Settings: New button "Large Map": Enlarge map to 5 times its original size (beta). Warning: RAM load and loading & saving time of the map increases with each object! Settings…
Patch notesSteam Workshop for maps: Upload, update, browse, download. This also allows you to use Steam as a private cloud storage for your maps by simply limiting the visibility of your published maps Added a Steam achievement Export of webp…
Patch notesCustom translation via "translation.csv". There is a "translation" folder in the user directory. Save a "translation.csv" there. Feel free to check my discord for more details: https://discord.gg/JTBS2xWedR Custom key bindings: You can now…
Patch notesLight sources can now be raised. Light sources are now also rendered above objects Auto UI scaling for resolutions smaller than 1920x1080 e.g. 1360x768 Zoom level increased. Quality reduction at high zoom levels. (Marking in the zoom…
Patch notesAdjustable height for paths and plots e.g. wall, market, forest or land plot Land plots have two edge variants: Slope or cliff Detachable objects from paths/plots e.g. trees from a forest or cottages on a road New tower variants: Square…
Patch notesAdjustable object height: You can now adjust the height of individual objects. It works with combined objects (e.g. a crate on a tower) and also with multi select, so you can raise or lower several objects at the same time New plot tool…
Patch notesQuality settings and performance: I was able to improve the overall performance. In addition, you can now set various quality settings to reduce the memory load and to further increase performance. Selectability of objects and paths…
Patch notesThe flickering objects on Nvidia graphics cards should now be gone. I had to try out quite a few things. Unfortunately it took a long time. I'm very sorry and thanks for your patience! Also, you can now insert custom simple flat images e.g.…
Patch notesBuilding tool (path tool): Instead of choosing from a list of many individual buildings that are always the same, you will hopefully have more flexibility, speed and, above all, many more options. There are different thatched, wooden and…
Patch notesMap area doubled Map boundary line removed Camera max zoom level increased Object list per group added. Now you can place specific objects directly Scaling of buttons on map improved when zooming Plot tool for land added Removed black…
Patch notesUpdate rate and performance of water increased Water now has no black border line by default. A button at the top of the UI now allows you to enable or disable the border line The edges of the river are now created more organically (Note…
Patch notesWater (plots, paths, bridges and objects) Loading error fixed (even broken old projects should be able to be loaded again now) Loading error message instead of freezing the editor Settings: added the option "Alternative Camera Process" (If…
Patch notesMulti selection of objects added. The selected objects can be moved, rotated, deleted and copied together. A maximum of 200 objects can be selected at the same time. Click priorities revised a little. Minor fixes.
Patch notesUndo/Redo implemented Hex Grid added Selecting points of an already selected path/plot has now always the highest priority. (For example, if you placed a forest on a wall and two points of the two paths overlapped, it was no longer possible…
Patch notesMaps are now loaded faster The application now opens a bit faster, overall I have optimized the performance Paths/plots can now be redrawn by key without having to move a point Path Closed, Delete Path/Plot and Snap to Paths now have a key…
Patch notesWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | CanvasOfKings.exe | windows 64 | ||
| Launch | CanvasOfKings.x86_64 | linux 64 | ||
| Launch | Canvas of Kings.app\Contents\MacOS\Canvas of Kings | macos |
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