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Oh the simple joy of those adhesive trinkets. My fridge is plastered with stickers, a timeline chronicling a human from chubby milk guzzler to taking the mick out of a teacher in the year six leaving assembly wearing a wig and dress. Stickers from the dentist, gold stars from school, a thankfully brief obsession with Paw Patrol, the full contents of an A4 animal sticker sheet packed into two square inches, and sketches of Mario doodled on cut out adhesive-backed paper. It’s a right faff scratching them off, let me tell you, but I’m in no rush. These little snapshots of life can stay.
I still enjoy a good sticker now but you wouldn’t catch me putting it anywhere anyone would actually see it. Blame that chap down the road with the septum piercing who’s slapped a Supreme sticker onto the rear window of his Seat Ibiza. Or the contingent of Yanks partial to plastering their bumpers with boomer tripe, spoiling it for the rest of us. But there’s a reason a fresh pair of Dunks, a graphic tee, or a shiny phone come with stickers (other than the free marketing); I think a lot of us look back on them fondly, the softening cogs of nostalgia at play in that peeling gesture.
Anyway, I’m rambling. Little Corners is a game about stickers, specifically arranging them on a succession of what look like medieval corner dioramas, including ‘a boisterous adventurer’s tavern, a mystical alchemist’s tower, and a relaxing winter cabin’. Think Unpacking minus the story about how growing up is mostly horrible. Each room starts as a blank canvas and with sticker sheets boasting light fixtures, fireplaces, windows, plants, furniture, and, depending on the theme, books, cauldrons, vials, globes, telescopes, and hundreds of other lovely sticky bits and bobs.
You peel off stickers and drag to place them where you see fit with no invisible grid nudging you towards certain placements. Though you don’t get the pleasing tactility of a physical sticker, Little Corners’ satisfying pops, clicks, and fuzz have a good crack at digitising it. Much like in Unpacking, it’s gratifying how quickly a room comes together. An original lo-fi soundtrack tops it all off. I’ll avoid a prolix sermon to how cathartic it all is, but with no timer or set objectives, it’s leisurely and satisfying stuff.
Developed by Meteor Pixel, Little Corners launches later this year, but in the meantime there’s a demo up on Steam. Secret Sauce is on publishing duties, a new indie outfit who pride themselves on ‘doing sh** well’ according to their website. The demo gives you two rooms to mess around in and hundreds of stickers to use to do just that.
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