This free Steam cozy game offering will bring back fond childhood memories

When you’re a kid, there’s something so mesmerising about stickers - and I know you know what I’m talking about.

The urge to acquire new stickers and to place them everywhere affects us all at a young age, although that feeling doesn’t exactly go away in adulthood. Not entirely.

Step foot inside any Gen Z or Millennial office and you’ll find Macbook covers decorated with memes, matcha, and song lyrics IT probably wishes you’d never put there.

If you’re looking for a way to indulge your love of stickers, though, in an acceptable way, you might want to consider trying out the free Steam offering My Cozy Cube.

Developed by Potato Sprouts, My Cozy Cube is a cozy sticker game where you’re essentially given a room you have to decorate using furniture and items which are applied like stickers.

That means there’s a very light element of puzzling, as you’ll want to layer your stickers effectively in order to pull off a realistic looking room.

There’s both a ‘normal mode’ where you work through all of the levels the game has to offer and a ‘sandbox mode’ where you can just go wild with all available stickers.

In the game’s normal mode, there’s a reference image available for you to emulate so sandbox mode is definitely the one for those who just want to creatively express themselves.

There’s no time limit on any of the levels, plus there are some handy features to help you get the job done efficiently.

Auto snapping will pull any stickers you’ve roughly placed in the right locale into the precise correct location.

There’s also position assistance and grid guides to make your life just that little bit easier. You can also capture your designs across both modes if you want to share them with friends.

My Cozy Cube is set to launch on PC via Steam although currently lacks a specific release date, but you can now sample its free demo.

The demo will introduce you to the mechanics - and if you like what you play, you can wishlist the full release.

If you like the look of My Cozy Cube, you’ll also love Little Corners

This certainly isn’t the first nor only sticker game out there, so allow me to impart one more recommendation as admittedly, sticker games don’t tend to last very long.

Little Corners is another brilliant example of the genre, allowing you to decorate small scenes from a medieval abandoned castle in a fantasy realm, to a samurai’s humble abode.

“It’s a really simple title but what it sets out to do, it does largely pretty well. I’d have liked some more options when it comes to sticker placement and organisation, and I do feel it suffers slightly from being a game that begins to feel a tad repetitive after a while,” we began in our review.

“Yet despite all of this, I’d say Little Corners is more than worth its meagre asking price of £5.99. It’s the type of game that you can dip in and out of, leaving behind your worldly woes for a whimsical sense of fun.”

It’s very likely that My Cozy Cube will charge a similarly reasonable price, so it’s definitely a subgenre of the wider cozy gaming space worth keeping an eye on if it floats your boat.