I love the character design, but nothing about this game scared me.īendy and the Ink Machine is mostly a puzzle based exploration game, with a shallow combat element to compliment. Audio tapes litter the environment, giving more context to the sights you’ll come across as you explore the dilapidated studio, and these are presented with decent voice-over work for their respective characters. The plot’s development is very reminiscent of Bioshock, with aspects of Outlast thrown in here and there. Oh, and it’s also crawling with creepy ‘ink creatures’ and the titular ‘Bendy’. Upon his arrival, however, he finds that not only has the studio become a tad run down, but it’s also the home of the mysterious ‘Ink Machine’.

You take on the role of Henry Stein, who has been invited back to his old animation studio by his colleague and employer Joey Drew. As a result, it’s a game that’s about as scary as a cute Toy Poodle. Take Bendy and the Ink Machine – this is a game that clearly borrows quite heavily from the first-person horror games from the past few years, but by doing so, it fails to do anything even remotely original. To make things even more difficult for developers, it can be exceedingly difficult to come up with effective scares without feeling like you’re blatantly ripping off earlier titles. Having been such an ardent fan of the survival horror genre for the majority of my gaming life, it takes quite a lot to unsettle me these days.

Bendy and the ink machine