Bendy and the Ink Machine is an adventure developed by Joey Drew Studios, released 10 February 2017 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 4.3 hrs to finish.
What Bendy and the Ink Machine is
Bendy and the Ink Machine is an adventure game developed by Joey Drew Studios and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as Henry as he revisits the demons of his past by exploring the abandoned animator's workshop of Joey Drew Studios. With twists and turns around every corner, "Bendy and the Ink Machine" is sure to thrill you... and decimate your childhood. You'll never look at cartoons the same way again.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 61 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Bendy series
Bendy and the Ink Machine is the first of 12 entries we hold in the Bendy series. The next entry was Bendy in Nightmare Run in 2018.
How it was received
Bendy and the Ink Machine holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 9 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 64, 8 GB RAM and 4GB Dedicated. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Bendy and the Ink Machine launched on 10 February 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata and Hollow Knight. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Bendy and the Ink Machine yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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