Bendy and the Ink Machine
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.44/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 37,537
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.5h
- To 100%
- 11.8h 2.6x the story
- Achievements
- 61
Price and sales
- Sales
- 58 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 64 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
67% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 58 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bendy and the Dark Revival ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Garten of Banban 7 ($9.99, scores 52).
More about Bendy and the Ink Machine
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 2,039 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
4.5 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
First playthrough review time. Bendy and the Ink Machine is a first person horror game with a very different style compared to many other games in the genre. It combines an old cartoon look with a dark and mysterious atmosphere, creating a world that feels unusual from the beginning. The design has a distinct style, especially in how the game builds its atmosphere. The game has detailed environments and the...
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About the game
Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4GB Dedicated, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bendy and the Ink Machine scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/622650/bendy-and-the-ink-machineReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.