Cozy Stickerville

To set up Cozy Stickerville, place the map board in the center of the table and select one of its two sides for your ten-game campaign. Create a general supply of ore, wood, gold, and food tokens, and place the ordered catalog deck within reach. During your very first game, peel and place the starting sticker pairs from the sticker book onto the correct background terrain of your chosen map side, avoiding map folds and existing stickers. Next, read the story book entry for the current year, gain initial happiness on the track, and collect starting wood and food based on map icons. Finally, take the event cards matching the current year number, shuffle them, and place them near the board as the event deck.

The objective of Cozy Stickerville is to cooperatively build and guide a growing village over a campaign of ten games, representing ten years. Players make meaningful decisions that permanently change the board by placing stickers, managing resources, tracking happiness, and collecting milestones. While you cannot technically lose, your choices have lasting consequences, influence the village's emotional state, and ultimately lead to one of five possible narrative endings.

Players take turns in a clockwise order around the table. Each turn is divided into two sequential steps. First, during the morning step, the active player draws and reads the top event card from the event deck aloud, discussing options with the group before making a final decision, spending any required resources, and resolving the outcome. Some events instruct you to keep cards in play tucked under the board. Second, during the afternoon step, the player resolves any single action available on the map or on tucked cards, which may involve reading story passages, drawing catalog cards, or paying resources to trigger effects.

Cozy Stickerville does not feature traditional competitive scoring or a win-loss condition. Instead, your progress is measured qualitatively through the evolution of your sticker-covered village, the level of happiness on your tracker, milestones gained, and progress or upset stickers accumulated. Your cumulative decisions throughout the ten games dictate the narrative path you take and determine which of the five distinct conclusions your village ultimately reaches.

A single game year concludes immediately after the active player finishes their turn when the event deck runs out of cards. At this point, the group resolves any active end-of-year effects found on remaining cards in play. You can then choose to continue directly into the next year or save your progress. To save, place all tucked cards and collected group resources into the save game box, mark the finished year with a progress sticker, and pack everything away until you are ready to resume.