Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “The Bench”. The retirement home isn’t for you, and your pigeon friends agree! Explore the world going bench to bench, solve puzzles, and keep your mischievous pigeon crew in line in this charming interactive adventure. Enjoy colorful, stylized levels, customize your pigeons, and live your best pensioner life!
The Bench answers a question you never knew you had: what does it feel like to be that old man sitting on a park bench all day, surrounded by pigeons? Developer Voxel Studios transforms this slice-of-life premise into a charming puzzle adventure where you’ve escaped the retirement home and now travel bench to bench through colorful stylized environments, commanding an ever-growing flock of customizable pigeons to solve puzzles and cause wholesome mischief. Your feathered friends follow commands to steal useful items, help with puzzles, or simply keep you company while you fish, doodle in your notebook, play chess, bowls, or football. The game layers gentle chaos atop the relaxation – disrupt picnics, play pranks on park visitors, toss passersby into the air with physics-based interactions – while memories surface suggesting this pensioner may have once been an agent with skills beyond feeding birds. The visuals pop with color across beautifully designed maps, each featuring hidden objects to discover and mini-games to keep your mind sharp. The game has been warmly received by players since its October 2025 launch, hitting the cozy game sweet spot with Twitch integration for streamers and 16 language localizations ensuring broad accessibility. This offers wholesome adventure for players seeking something genuinely different.
Developer: Voxel Studios
Publisher: Noovola
Genre: Adventure, Puzzle, Hidden Object, Exploration, Relaxing, Indie
Release Date: 24 Oct, 2025
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows
Link: Steam
Review copy was provided.
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