Bendy and the Ink Machine

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Grandma
☑ Adults
☑ Teens
☐ Kids
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Top tier
☐ Fast
☑ Decent
☐ Potato
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War (175 GB)
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ It'll replace your life
☑ Lovely
☐ Good
☐ Average
☐ Some lore
☐ No Story
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ Too long
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Cyberpunk 2077
---{ Game Launcher }---
☐ Yes
☑ No
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Bendy and the Ink machine is a light-horror adventure game. The game's most striking feature is that it maintains a 1930s cartoon aesthetic, albeit with creepy dilapidated, worn out, and rusty environments. It has a monochromatic palette art style, with mostly black, white, and sepia yellow tones. Gameplay involves exploring a creepy abandoned animation studio, fetching mini quests, solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and overcoming a few stealth sections. The game takes approximately 4 hours to complete a first playthrough.
+ The art style is gorgeous, and runs really well in 4K HDR. The graphics are really sharp and beautiful.
+ Excellent use of lighting.
+ The story is original and interesting.
+ The sound effects are well made, especially on headphones during the stealth sections.
+ Unique and original monsters. Well designed boss fights.
+ Real voice acting.
- Later levels are maze-like. It is easy to get lost and frustrated in certain environments.
- One game breaking bug was never fixed by developers in 10 years since release. During one certain stealth section a small amount of players might have to redo an hour of gameplay.
- Combat is a bit too basic, not enough weapon variety.
Excellent style and atmosphere overcomes shortcomings in the gameplay department.
Overall: 8/10

While the gameplay could be better and final boss battle a bit underwhelming, this game is still one of the most refreshingly original and atmospheric horror games ever. It's truly a one of a kind game with great story telling, slowburn suspense and a fascinating world. Easily one of the best indie horror games of the golden era.

This game is just as great as I remember being a 7-8 year old watching Jacksepticeye, Dawko, and other YouTubers play this, and now being 15, owning the game for myself, playing it was like a dream come true!

Thank you Joey Drew Studios for giving us such an amazing game and cheers to the rest of the games (and movie) to come!

You begin thinking it’s just an old-school cartoon vibe and leave with psychological damage, ink in your soul, and a personal beef with Alice Angel.

The atmosphere is amazing, the soundtrack makes you paranoid, and the game does a great job reminding you that no one here can be trusted, not even the save system.

Pros:
✔️ Unique art style
✔️ Creepy atmosphere
✔️ Interesting story

Cons:
❌ Bugs
❌ Quests that refuse to progress
❌ I collected 5 hearts and the game pretended nothing happened

Final thoughts:
Great game, terrible demonic force running behind the scenes.
Recommended — but save often and pray.

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

This game is epic. All I want to say for the people who are just now playing this, actually listen to the Tapes. While only some actually give you hints on what your supposed to do (Like the first one in Chapter 1) and how some are actually required to progress the story, they give interesting backstory.

Great story-driven game. I'd give it 10/10. Whoever made it, it’s a masterpiece. I played it with pleasure, didn’t encounter a single bug, everything worked perfectly