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. Stein discovers a series of strange paranormal activities caused by the titular Ink Machine. The player controls Henry Stein, a retired animator who receives a letter inviting him to back to his old workplace. Inspired by the BioShock game series, the game is set the fictional Joey Drew Studios.
The game was also released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on November 20, 2018, being published by Rooster Teeth Games, and for IOS and Android on December 21, 2018. It was initially released to Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, as the first of five chapters, with a full release on October 27, 2018. Consoles (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4)īendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Kindly Beast under the name of the game's in-universe animation studio Joey Drew Studios Inc.