As he started developing the idea, he realized that it felt "creepy" and needed a monster that inhabited it. It was also revealed she was created by Joey Drew to provide help for Henry in the cycle, as Joey was moved by Allison's kindness in the real world, and the name Allison was given to her by Audrey. Henry tries to escape, but when he reaches the door, the floor under him gives way and he falls into the studio's lower levels. The art style is appealing from afar (as in the box art and trailers) but when playing it is not so much. Sammy overpowers Henry and tries to kill him, but is killed by Tom, who finally trusts Henry and equips him with an axe.

The Lost Ones are employees of Joey Drew Studios, who have been corrupted by the ink, and aren't hostile. For a short time from the game's deleted Game Jolt page, the prototype soundtrack was available for download. In the game, players navigate through a first person perspective and need to complete certain tasks to proceed, such as combat, collecting objects or solving puzzles. Goldbricking • A Sweet Discovery • Pipes and Problems • Shadows and Suffering • Valued Employee • Aggression • To Hell and Back • No Need for a Spoon • Toe Tappin' • Now Hear This! Nintendo Life also considered the motives of having a BioShock vibe in the game due to "the revelations that are made of Henry's past to the retro aesthetic that clings to every corner of the game's dilapidated setting".It also reveals a sense of heart and humanity at the end that I wasn’t expecting, which really puts a nice bow on top of the games themes and how they relate to their real life inspirations. In 2020, Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick franchise, stated that he has interest in making a television adaptation based on the game. This part of the game feels like a brief identity crisis, where it also seems to struggle between wanting to be a cute, little horror game and trying to be BioShock.

As much as it tried my patience at times, I definitely enjoyed my time with Bendy and the Ink Machine. While combat can and will be a factor, the bulk of the experience is exploratory, as the game prefers to focus on atmosphere and narrative over action. Let’s say one of these visitors just downloaded three games to find out these were not PS4 games just some old games posing as nextgen games. Henry left the studio in a bad way, heavily implied to be due to an all too familiar ownership dispute over the character. Before each chapters' release, theMeatly announced a fanart contest, allowing the fans to submit their fan art for it.

The game was then released for free on Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, being one of the first games that were released on the platform. Some of these logs can be missed and require further exploration to uncover the secret areas they often reside In. Under the partnership agreement, a curated list of games incubated on the Game Jolt platform will be brought to market on the all-new Atari VCS™ PC/console hybrid. After using a flashlight to make their way through a dark area, they come across the studio's Toy Department and find a back room full of merchandise for Alice Angel, the studio's lead female. In the months following its release, the game quickly gained a large following from exposure on platforms like YouTube and Twitch, and eventually was approved through Steam Greenlight in mid-2017.

He eventually comes to the music department and discovers an exit at the bottom of some stairs, but the stairs are flooded and blocking the door.

By the events of the game, he has been turned into the Projectionist, a humanoid monster with a projected head. What seemed to start as a side project is on the way to becoming a full-blown franchise, and there’s enough narrative juice here to sustain it for sure. It's an unorthodox type of horror game, but Bendy and the Ink Machine utilizes two opposite genres that complement each other to create a solid title. After doing so, Henry goes back to the machine, but is attacked by a demon taking an ink-based form of the studio's mascot, Bendy the Dancing Demon. If he takes too much damage, he can escape from the ink that consumes him and respawn at one of the numerous statues of Bendy that act as checkpoints.