How many copies has Bendy and the Ink Machine sold?

indielist estimates Bendy and the Ink Machine has sold between 1,965,222 and 4,585,518 units (median 3,275,370), derived from its 36,393 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Bendy and the Ink Machine?

Bendy and the Ink Machine was developed by Joey Drew Studios and published by Joey Drew Studios.

Who published Bendy and the Ink Machine?

Bendy and the Ink Machine was published by Joey Drew Studios, developed by Joey Drew Studios. See Joey Drew Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Bendy and the Ink Machine released?

Bendy and the Ink Machine was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Bendy and the Ink Machine have on Steam?

Bendy and the Ink Machine has 36,393 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.

Is Bendy and the Ink Machine worth playing?

Steam players rate Bendy and the Ink Machine 89% positive across 36,393 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Apr 27, 2017 Action $19.99

Developer Joey Drew Studios Publisher Joey Drew Studios

Profile updated May 2026

This action-adventure indie game, released in 2017, features a strong strategic element. Bendy and the Ink Machine has garnered 24,207 positive reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher information is not yet imported.

Bendy and the Ink Machine is a 2017 Action game developed by Joey Drew Studios and published by Joey Drew Studios. On Steam it has gathered 36,393 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Joey Drew Studios with publisher Joey Drew Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.0 million to 4.6 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Bendy and the Ink Machine can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

36,393

Positive

89%

Steam appid

622650

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

212

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-31 14:45 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.0M to 4.6M

units (median: 3.3M)

≈ $22.4M to $52.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.0M median 4.6M

+ How is this calculated?

36,393 reviews × NB(90) = 3,275,370 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$20	0
positive_89%	+10
final NB	90

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Bendy and the Ink Machine at roughly 2.0 million to 4.6 million copies, with a median around 3.3 million, derived from its 36,393 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $37.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

53 observed days · window low $1.99

Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $17.40. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-07-10.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Steam reference -90%

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GOG.com -70%

$5.99 Buy
Fanatical -11%

$17.11 Buy
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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Bendy and the Ink Machine sold?: indielist estimates Bendy and the Ink Machine has sold between 1,965,222 and 4,585,518 units (median 3,275,370), derived from its 36,393 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Bendy and the Ink Machine?: Bendy and the Ink Machine was developed by Joey Drew Studios and published by Joey Drew Studios.
Who published Bendy and the Ink Machine?: Bendy and the Ink Machine was published by Joey Drew Studios, developed by Joey Drew Studios. See Joey Drew Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Bendy and the Ink Machine released?: Bendy and the Ink Machine was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Bendy and the Ink Machine have on Steam?: Bendy and the Ink Machine has 36,393 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Is Bendy and the Ink Machine worth playing?: Steam players rate Bendy and the Ink Machine 89% positive across 36,393 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Bendy and the Ink Machine can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Poppy Playtime, SOMA, Outer Wilds, Outlast 2, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Joey Drew Studios's other releases and Joey Drew Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bendy and the Ink Machine sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Bendy and the Ink Machine page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.