Hello pensioners and pigeon lovers!

We hope that you’ve so far enjoyed playing The Bench demo. Since we launched on Monday, we’ve already received almost one hundred completed feedback forms, which means the absolute most to us!

You’d be pleased to know that as of today, we’re launching a major demo update, which includes many updates directly from your feedback, as well as minor bug fixes, and new languages.

We want to stress the importance of continued dialogue through your feedback forms, and via our community Discord, your comments, thoughts and feedback helps us shape the game for you, so keep ‘em coming!

If you download The Bench demo today, you will be able to play it in Spanish LATAM, Spanish Spain, Turkish and Brazilian Portuguese, as well as the already available languages: English, Italian, Japanese, French, Ukrainian and Russian.

Here are all the major updates from this new build:

• Reworked the movement system: a lot of you shared similar feedback, so we hope we've hit the nail on the head with the new system
• Improved pigeon handling - another big request!
• Reworked some parts of the map and bench placements
• Revised the throwing system
• Made some UI improvements
• Added new settings
• Improved translations
• Revised the party area
• Added fast travel between benches via the map
• Reworked the brick-pigeon
• Fixed the demo end menu
• Fixed Ukrainian and Russian language teething issues after thorough LQA
• Updated the font to better suit the Cyrillic alphabet
• Other general fixes

If you’ve already played the demo and left feedback, why not try it again, and see all that’s been added? You’ll probably notice your feedback has made it into the demo already, so check out how you’re actively shaping development!

For newcomers, don’t forget to bring your leftover bread to the park with you, our pigeons absolutely love it.

Best,

Voxel Studios