Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 11:20 pm
Bendy and the Ink Machine – Adventure Game Review
Bendy and the Ink Machine is a Adventure/Entertainment/Action game from Joey Drew Studios Inc., first launched in 21st December 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 5,035+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bendy and the Ink Machine Stand Out
Henry was the lead animator at Joey Drew Studios in its 1930s heyday, a studio that was best known for producing animated cartoons of their most popular and beloved character, Bendy. Many years later Henry receives a mysterious invitation from Joey Drew himself to return to the old cartoon workshop. Journey deep into the sketchy madness of this twisted cartoon nightmare.
Fight the darkness. Escape the Ink Demon. Fear the Machine.
• Varied Game Play! – First person combat, horror, puzzles, stealth and numerous hidden secrets.
• A Beautiful Cartoon World! – Lovingly crafted by a small indie studio.
• A Global Bendy Community! – Delve deep into the mystery and join the discussion at joeydrewstudios.com
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bendy and the Ink Machine is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Upgraded Unity Engine Version.
Download & Availability
Bendy and the Ink Machine is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Bendy and the Ink Machine on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
When crossing the bridge and to our left and jumping we fell off and then it moved us fast to the light when u die and skipped tot he stairs and still had the same objective repair the bridge.
We haven't ever played BATIM before, and only recently was able to here on mobile, we have completed th whole 5 chapters and just love this entire game as a whole. We're currently thinking on getting BATDR right now.
Bendy and the ink machine is an amazing game!! Ive grew up on this game buying merch, playing the games, and creating content on this excellent game. We love the thrill, story, and characters in the wonderful game also the huge map and studio you play in as Henry. This game is amazing and from a fan and a content creator we 100% recommend this game for young kids to grow up on such a wonderful game such as us and many others. Thank you Joey Drew studios for such an amazing game!! Yours truly, HalfFNAF.
Most games are good some bad,and sometimes even copyright. But THIS game is MORE than good! Ive never thought we have seen such a YELLOW work-shop into complete inky MADDNES! We love this game we will also give it FIVE STARS.
All we ask is for the inky veins when bendy appears because like we cant see anything when our screen is covered in ink.
Its a great game. It wont be on par like the on other platforms looking mind blowing or anything, but it looks good. There are performance issues even on low settings. Its quite annoying. It causes looking around to be choppy which can mess you up. Doubt it will get patched. With how far iPhones have come now, there is no excuse. The games icons need to be readjusted. The cog icon for settings need to be moved to the right a bit. Or leave it. Its fine. Sometimes whilst tapping jump or grab or melee, your screen will move a bit. This can mess you up. Maybe our fingers are too big for these little icons. Too bad we can 't move the icons to our liking, and increase their size. Too bad there are no achievements like the PC version.
We love this game, and we sometimes want to get achievement. But this game on mobile DOESNT work with Game Center. Bendy and the Dark Revival has mobile achievements, but Bendy and the Ink Machine DOESNT. Can you add mobile achievements to Bendy and the Ink Machine, please.
This is one of the best indie horror games Ive ever played! It runs smoothly on our device and has zero to no bugs.
Joey drew studios please comment on this your games are the best.
Great game but CAN WE HAVE DARK REVIVAL PLS.
Its a adventure into a nightmare and you never return GREAT JOB JOEY DREW STUDIOS.
We love the game a lot but what happened to bendy nightmare run.
Its a really good port but could you increase the graphics cause the fuzziness is kinda getting to us.
This might be hard but meetly try maybe to release dark revival mobile before ink factory pls.
We love that the characters are also a show. We hope that you can play as bendy sometime in the future, so we can see how he was.
After beating the game we went to the archives, but it didnt work even though the game said we unlocked it so we beat whole game again just for it to happen again.
We only played a minute of this game But its probably actually Worth it since you Can select 5 chapters we feel like fnaf ucn is kinda better But that costs more this is awesome Buy it.
Ive almost finished chapter 3 now and we havent ran into any bugs, the game runs very smoothly even on just mobile data which is refreshing. We have no complaints about the gameplay but we really wish the save game function worked. The punch card machines are there for saving your game but you cant save. We cant always sit through a full session and will want to come back to it only to have to restart the chapter which gets frustrating. Please add save files.
We love the game so much love the storyline love the lore. We would always play this when we were younger when it first came out on our Nintendo switch and when we saw that was on mobile, Im like oh how fun but when we saw it was five dollars? We dont really think it was worth the money, but we got it anyways because we wanted to play the game again but for five chapters we dont really think its worth five dollars to tone it down a little bit make at least three dollars.
Best game of our childhood joey drew is the best.
This game is very very good the graphics are better then any other horror game we played but every time we check a mission when it pops up theres a high chance of our controls disappearing the second problem is that joeys face at the end is all wobbily and not connected at all his face just moves around while the others move normally.
The game is great and all but when we do the Sammy Laurence thing in chapter 2 when we do it it doesnt work right can we get someone to help us and also WHERES bendy and the dark revival on the AppStore.
Literally freakin obsessed with batim , honestly just a bit difficult to play on iOS but we managed to beat it so its great.
In chapter 4, whenever you meet Boris he grunts Henry.
This game is so fun!! Even works without WiFi!! DEFINITELY RECOMMEND.
Es un buen juego us gast mis 7 dlares y vali la pena el juego para celular tiene buenos grficos te asusta en momentos inesperados y tiene buen Lore pero lo que ms us gust es que el juego se adaptaba bien para las partes que el juego se empieza a trabar cuando se viene algo grande us encant fue muy bueno el juego tarde un da en pasarlo 12 horas jugando sin parar solo para pasarlo pero fueron los mejores 7 dlares de mi vida us gust tambin los secretos y lo bueno que es para ser un juego viejo de hace 10 aos ya.
So we been watching videos of this game for 8 years and we begged our mom to buy us the game but she said no but know days we bought the game on our own and been playing the game all day and beaten the game on a call then our friends said we might buy it to.
We all need to have bendy and the dark revival on the App Store but it a good game.
Dear Joey Drew Studios Hi, Joey Drew Studios inc. We have a suggestion for a future game, can you make a game when you play as a soon to be victim of a serial killer girlfriend? We think itll be very fun to play as well as making it, also can the girl be played by either Michela Laws or Akwafina thats all! Thanks for reading! Im very happy with this game. If we could compare this to Alien Isolation, this is definitely a lot less vulgar (obviously), but Im very happy with this game, and Im very optimistic about dark revival possibly arriving. Your player, Alice Poole.
This game is awesome the graphics are amazing but theres a bug we got on the first chapter the evil bendy never came so we had to quit and restart the game. We havent gotten any other bugs but Im still playing. But other than at this game is GREAT.
Been glazing and grailing this game for years, we're a top tier dickrider.
It was so good. Finished it after 2 years of taking a break. It was so good. The ending was strange. We wished there was more.. The places and how big and how many rooms the place has is just phenomenal. This is the best video game.
Ive been watching people play this since like 2019 so we decided to download it and not gonna lie, its really fun and it has great mechanics, Especially chapter four where you get to play at a carnival. Anyways the game is good, there is a lot of things to figure out but pretty fun.
We love this game it just needs a new chapter and it having twists and turns.
We absolutely loved the game, the only issues were the bugs. When we talk to Joey Drew in the end, his face glitches out and stretches. As well as, which Im not sure if this is a bug, in chapter 4 when youre tossing the balls at the bottles, sometimes the ball doesnt throw hard, and just goes up in the air. Everything else was great, though. We loved the Beast Bendy fight in the end.
The game is so good we love all the visuals and how the Ink Demon looks. Bugs: The first bug is where sometimes when we press continue, it will send us to a different chapter, usually it being chapter 2. The second bug is when we press the gear to pause the game, or if we press the objective paper, the controls sometimes disappear. And the third bug is where at the end of the game where Joey is talking to you, his face is sometimes very floppy and it looks a little disturbing. The story line is very good, and BatDR is also super good when we played it. Joey Drew Studios must continue to work on projects like this.
The game is good it has good good graphics and good qualities for the game. The game also have good characters in the characters. Also have the best graphics Ive ever seen we like the game because its mainly talking about Bendy and how we have to go through certain levels to complete levels. Also, we like the game because it has puzzles to solve and it helps us with our brain so our brain can he smarter.
Bendy and the ink machine is really fun but Ive wanted to play dark revival but we cant.
When we first downloaded this game, we were really happy. Ive been waiting for so long like a few years to download this game and then when we finally got it we started playing every day. It was really one of our favorite games, but Im still sad about Bendy in nightmare run please like bring it back. Because we missed it so much.
We love the game but can you guys please give us a movie of the games that you guys made.
Great game we love how the game was made.
So we were just playing and then we left the app and when we came back our progress was not saved, we really want to finish it but it keeps happening to us so we hope it gets fixed.
We found that about this game when we were like seven and Ive been adoring it ever since so we can guarantee this video game was our childhood.
Why wont it let us get to the end of chapter 4.
We love this game. It's a core part of our childhood. But for a few months now, the audio just won't play. We've checked all settings, both in-game and on our device, and it says audio should be playing-and yet it isn't. Pease help us fix this, the game is just not worth playing without audio.
We love this game and we have been a huge fan of it for a long time, we would even make an indie show about it if we had the budget but the main thing we request is that you make Bendy and the dark revival mobile because we would love to play it and our PC is slow so playing on mobile would mean so much to us.
We saw there was a 2024 update so we checked but it still says open on App Store when is the update going to come on mobile.
We really wanna know what happened to Bendy Run. We love the animation in the game. It reminds us of Cuphead. They need to really bring back Bendy Run.
We remember when this came out and we were so excited and we got into the fandom and that was the best childhood memory for us.
Its not gonna happen. TheMeatly said it himself. Its too hard for him to manage his games on multiple platforms. If BATIM is already super buggy and laggy on mobile, then BATDR is gonna be even worse. Use some logic here, please. If youre desperate, watch playthroughs and/or play it on PC/Xbox/PlayStation. Hes also (supposedly. Hes mentioned it before, but nothing has been recently said about it) currently working on BATDR for Nintendo Switch, so that could be an option in the future. And we see people saying they did Sammy and Norman/Projectionist dirty. Yes, thats what you do when youre a writer. You kill off characters if theyre not needed further. Aside from all that, its a really good game, and a nice introduction to horror. The scares arent bad at all lol. The writing and characters are amazing. 100% one of the best games Ive ever played (better then some AAA games imo.) -Sketch, 10/1/2024 P.S: Super hyped for the movie + all the new games. Especially The Cage :) So happy we get more of Henry.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.1
- Size: 1,094.70 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Joey Drew Studios Inc.
Last updated: 10th December 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Entertainment | Developer: Joey Drew Studios Inc.