I’d describe Sticky Business as a wholesome game. It looks like one, and it plays like one. It’s lovely for there to be no violence, no conflict, just stickers and stories. It’s not a terribly long game (it took about ten hours to get all the Steam achievements), but it was super fun and exactly what the marketing promised. I’d love to see it on Nintendo Switch, but that’s mostly because I want everything I love to be available on that platform. The sticker design and packaging processes were almost soothing, and I oddly did love trying to fit as many stickers onto a page as possible. If you’re in the market for an innovative cozy game idea, Sticky Business just might scratch that itch.
Sticky Business is a more of a creative platform than an actual game, that will help you relax and express your talent. We really hope that it may work with Steam Deck in the future.
Sticky Business is genuinely a perfect outlet. While the sticker part options are a bit restricted and I hope DLC or updates add to the library, it’s such a relaxing time sink. I had so much fun setting things up just so, knowing that no matter how it looked my virtual customers would love it. It’s quite a relaxing and validating experience.
Sticky Business is a nice idea, and for a few hours, we’ve had a great time creating our own stickers and sending out orders. But if you’re the creative sort, you’ll feel much more fulfilled by doodling your own tangible designs, or opening up Photoshop to create something you can admire in the real world. As a game, there’s just not enough sense of meaningful progression to keep us engaged in the long term – but we did enjoy hearing our customers’ stories, at least.
It’s not a very good chill game and has two big game killing problems.
1) You don’t have much creativity on the stickers that you can make. You can only make stickers using other stickers. It doesn’t give you the same freedom that the tools in little big planet did to create stickers with. You’re limited to actions such as putting a heart on stop of an existing flag sticker. The devs probably did this because they were worried about people making obscene stickers in the game. Regardless you don’t get a lot of creative control and because of this, the creation feature is not very fun.
2) Your stickers will sell like hotcakes regardless of what you make. It kind of make the whole experience pointless. I’ve made several stickers in this game and not once did they fail to sell out. Ibn short there’s no concept of good and bad stickers in this game, so what’s the point in making anything truly good?
Also Pride is a big theme in this game for some reason. I don’t know why since stickers or chill games aren’t really associated with pride. But regardless they have all the pride flags in this game, like more than I knew even existed. I didn’t see any country flags or any other type of flags, so if that’s not virtu signalling then I don’t know what is… Looks like they were more interested in getting the pride community playing this than anyone who just wants to make stickers.
If you’re looking for better chill out type games then try Toem, Calico, Abzu or A short hike.
SummaryExperience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers' stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the internet!