Little Corners joins the ranks of room decoration games and it brings a unique gimmick that, honestly, I feel might be superior.
In this renovating game, you decorate your space with stickers. I had the fortune of being able to decorate three rooms: a potion lab, an astronomy tower, and a tavern. Each space is a box shape to furnish and instead of regular furniture, you’re decorating with stickers in the shape of furniture.
As a notorious lover of stickers, Little Corners was an immediate attention grabber, even though I’m awful at decorating empty rooms. I was convinced that I was going to try this game out and make the same room over and over again. I’m the type of person who’s not great at visualizing things for myself, so when given free rein, I tend to just stick things along the wall while plopping one giant thing in the middle.
To be fair… I kind of did that for two of the rooms, but something magical happened in the tavern. Because of how Little Corners is designed, I was able to create a more dynamic space that didn’t just stick to the wall and actually sprawled out like a lived-in space.
In this game, you’re not just pulling from an inventory of random objects. To be fair to other games (like MakeRoom), they do switch out a bit for the themed dioramas, but it’s generally a blank slate to work from. With Little Corners, each room is themed and all of the furniture is themed right along with it.
They’ve adorably set up the furniture across six sticker sheets that you can sift through. Every page is unique and these pages are going to have entirely different furniture in them than the previous room. By giving me themed stickers and keeping things tempered to only those sheets, I was able to look through the furniture and pick out the things I absolutely loved and build around that.
I’ve never been so confident in placing stickers before.
It took the guesswork out of it and while a more visually creative type may not enjoy the restrictive palette of items, I thrived under this system. I was able to create rooms that I genuinely felt proud of and it felt like I got better with each room.
Honestly, I’m even more excited to play the full version. Sometimes, I get super excited to dive in, but by the second or third room, I’ve used all my brain cells in making decisions in the previous rooms, so I end up with decision fatigue early on. Little Corners didn’t present that problem to me.
Not only was I able to confidently decorate the rooms, but I was able to put clutter in and work out far more interest than normal.
The only thing that I could even make a tiny curmudgeon about is the layering, but even that is me grasping at straws. You’re able to layer stickers, which is great, but sometimes the furniture pieces are a bit of a pain that will require you to pick up furniture you’ve already placed and push that forward or back because each piece in what you’re trying to create needs to be adjusted.
Mind you, this isn’t always true. It generally only happened with areas that I decorated earlier and needed to come back to later, which caused this clash. It really was no trouble at all to just adjust as I went.
All in all, I couldn’t recommend Little Corners enough. I genuinely think that most people will enjoy playing it. Try out the demo for yourself and while you’re there, be sure to wishlist the game. It will help out the devs who’ve done an amazing job at crafting so much life into a 2D space.
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