Games like The Bench
If The Bench is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fofumia, Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered and Koira — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its adorable customizable pigeon army, charming and humorous tone and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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!
Players who liked The Bench also play
Steam players who put hours into The Bench also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Fofumia
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Bench.
Welcome to Fofumia! Clean up the mess left by the adorable Fofunos - playful, hyperactive one-eyed kittens who love scattering toys and objects everywhere. It’s up to you to set everything straight...
Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Bench.
Second-strongest match for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
The premier first-person destructive house cat simulator is back with a vengeance! Play as a mischievous cat, swat your human's possessions onto the floor, scratch up curtains, smash precious keepsakes, and show your owner who's boss.
Koira
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with The Bench.
Third-strongest match for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
Donut County
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Bench.
Ranked #4 for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
Rain on Your Parade
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Bench.
Ranked #5 for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Travel the world as a cute cardboard cloud and ruin everybody's day! Unlock new methods of mischief in over 50 levels, each with unique setting and objectives. This is an adorable schadenfreude simulator!
iDigging
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, whimsical and a funny mood with The Bench.
Ranked #6 for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
In iDigging, you’ll balance treasure hunting, home improvement, and the strategy of hiding from curious neighbors and authorities. Upgrade, dig, and create your best life despite all the challenges!
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and a funny mood with The Bench.
Ranked #7 for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and a funny mood with The Bench.
Ranked #8 for The Bench fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Bench at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bench.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bench.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bench.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bench.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Bench.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Bench on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Bench.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Bench.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Bench.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Bench.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Bench.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
The premier first-person destructive house cat simulator is back with a vengeance! Play as a mischievous cat, swat your human's possessions onto the floor, scratch up curtains, smash precious keepsakes, and show your owner who's boss.
Koira
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
Donut County
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
Rain on Your Parade
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Travel the world as a cute cardboard cloud and ruin everybody's day! Unlock new methods of mischief in over 50 levels, each with unique setting and objectives. This is an adorable schadenfreude simulator!
iDigging
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, whimsical and a funny mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
In iDigging, you’ll balance treasure hunting, home improvement, and the strategy of hiding from curious neighbors and authorities. Upgrade, dig, and create your best life despite all the challenges!
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and a funny mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and a funny mood with The Bench.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Bench.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
Frequently asked about The Bench
- Does The Bench run on Steam Deck?
- The Bench is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Bench cost?
- The Bench is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Bench?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Bench are Fofumia, Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered, Koira.
- Who developed The Bench?
- The Bench was developed by Voxel Studios and published by Noovola.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Bench.
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