Summary
- The Bench is simply a crippled akin to Untitled Goose Game with added puzzles and pigeon characters.
- Players power a flock of pigeons to implicit tasks similar stealing, learning, and disrupting a repairman's work.
- The crippled volition person Twitch integration for viewers to power gameplay and a demo during Steam Next Fest.
Yesterday was a beauteous large time for crippled announcements. Microsoft hosted its latest developer direct, revealing Ninja Gaiden 4 and shadow-dropping Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, positive sharing much accusation connected South of Midnight, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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One crippled that astir decidedly slipped nether your radar, though, is The Bench, which looks similar the adjacent viral hit, determination betwixt The Witness and Untitled Goose Game.
The Bench Is Untitled Goose Game With Pigeons, And The Witness Looking Puzzles
Untitled Goose Game is 1 of the astir viral indies of the past fewer years. Playing arsenic a mischievous goose, it's your occupation to wreak havoc by completing a assortment of tasks.
The Bench looks similar it takes a leafage retired of Untitled Goose Game's book, but with a fewer much puzzles. And a flock of pigeons.
In a abbreviated trailer, an aged man, which this "old antheral astatine the park" simulator is based on, is seen sitting connected a bench. It's present that helium controls a flock of pigeons to find hidden objects and implicit a scope of dastardly tasks, overmuch akin to the aforementioned Goose Game.
The pigeons are tasked with stealing a shovel, ruining a garden, taking swimming lessons, and uncovering 3 fish, arsenic good arsenic seemingly flying themselves into a powerline to disrupt a repairman's work.
The game's authoritative statement reads: "The Bench is an upcoming "old antheral astatine the park" simulator. Yes, you play an aged man hanging retired connected a parkland seat controlling flocks of pigeons, fending disconnected bare wildlife, annoying parkland staff, and solving puzzles successful the paper successful this casual sim/puzzle crippled with a wholesome twist."
On the game's Steam page, it's besides confirmed that The Bench volition person Twitch integration, allowing viewers to "influence your gameplay unrecorded successful a assortment of ways, specified arsenic spawning pigeons, raccoons, and NPCs to alteration the travel of the game."
It surely seems similar the benignant of crippled designed to spell viral connected Twitch and societal media, and with a demo coming retired successful adjacent month's Steam Next Fest, we won't person agelong to hold to spot conscionable however hilarious things tin get.
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