As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
"I... am the Ink Demon. This realm... is MINE!!!"
The Ink Machine and its unholy creations return to bring us a new round of terror in a neverending Cycle. As we were warned the first time, we are warned again: Above all, fear the machine.
For the Nightmare Fuel page of Bendy and the Ink Machine, go here.
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Pre-Release
- The game had teasers in the form of Audio Logs from the various studio staff
; the last recording, however, belonging to an unknown character, is spliced from the previous Audio Logs twisting the character's words into an ominous warning that something big will happen at Joey Drew Studios while a Scare Chord builds and ends with a creepy voice commenting after the recording is over.Unknown: How very interesting. Such... Knowledge.
Prologue
- Wilson introduces himself by prying the elevator doors open, which will definitely make you jump if you're not ready for it. But that's not the worst of it. He talks to you — in a voice that practically screams stranger danger — like a pet or child in need of "protection" which helps absolutely nothing. He even slips in some very unwelcome flirting. Then the power goes out...
Chapter 1: Drawn to Darkness
- The Lost Ones in the first game were largely peaceful, at least until Sammy's defeat in Chapter 5, but now, thanks to Wilson's manipulations, they are hostile enemies from the start around the studio; the first one you encounter threatens to kill you if he catches sight of you. While some Lost Ones are friendly and initially wary of strangers, others attack intruders on sight, even with weapons of their own.
Chapter 2: The Demon's Domain
- The Ink Demon is back, and he means business. Not even the Lost Ones are spared from him. You barely manage to get away from him momentarily through a steel door during your first encounter, but now you are in danger of being hunted. If you get caught outside a hiding spot once his (very short) warning is up? Instant death. And not a respawn either, full on Game Over. Oh, and he can appear at pretty much any time.
- If caught, the Ink Demon can kill you in a variety of ways, from being impaled to eaten alive to disembowled.
- A memo titled "The Ghosts" describes how the ink creatures are pulled back into the ink to be reborn when they die, but sometimes their souls can slip from the ink completely, leaving them trapped between worlds unable to die or return.
- You go into a room where the corpse of a female Lost One lays next to an audio log that belonged to an employee named Jane Todd, who worked on a female ghost character named "Carley" to add to the Butcher Gang. You see a wooden crate at the other side of the room beside a cardboard cutout of Carley. Should you choose to open the crate, you are treated to a horrific, mutilated version of Carley called "Slicer" laying lifelessly inside, looking very akin to the monster designs of Piper, Fisher, and Striker. Not too bad right? Well, when you look away from Slicer and turn back to it, she suddenly vanishes from inside the crate without a trace. And it's not just Slicer, but the audio log AND the Lost One corpse next to it are gone as well! It's then you realize that you have unleashed another threat into the studio.
- You walk out of the room and move towards the next doorway to progress - when suddenly Slicer, reanimated with glowing eyes, appears out of nowhere, charges at you screaming and scratching at you before vanishing! You are now periodically haunted by Slicer, who is unkillable and can give new players jumpscares at random times while also harming them.
- The Butcher Gang in general are far more revamped than before, as now all are a collective Ambushing Enemy. Piper, Striker, and Fisher might randomly pop up from nearly any hiding space while Audrey roams the inky world, without warning.
Chapter 3: The Eternal Machine
- Audrey tries to take the elevator to the upper floors, but when the Keepers detect unauthorized use of the elevator, she is ejected into a chamber deeper in the studio called the Pit, where those caught in restricted areas are taken. Upon gaining consciousness, she finds herself in a nest filled with pulsing ink egg sacs. And what comes out of them are small and spider-like ink creatures with human-shaped molars, just ready to swarm and eat her. Even worse, there's a bigger one, presumably the parent!
- If you die to it, there is a cutscene of it slowly eating you, legs first. That’s got to be an awful way to go…
Chapter 4: Factory of Horrors
- Ever wonder what happened to Bertrum after Henry cut off his limbs? Well don't worry, he's alive and well... and just a head, outside his box, staring right at you the whole time you're in the room...
- Making it worse is that his single eye follows you.
- One of the objects in the room with the characters from the first game is a display case with the Projectionist's camera head, hitting the case makes the head scream indicating the Projectonist is still alive.
- The Keepers audio logs note that they conducted painful experiments on Bendy AFTER he got turned into his smaller form in an attempt to learn how to kill him for good. They describe how fun it was making him cry and scream in a completely clinical tone. Note that normal Bendy is mute and only his demon form talks. The Keepers tortured a mute entity to the point of it regaining its voice just to make it scream in pain.
- A sidequest has Audrey get food for a large Lost One so he can let you into a room with loot. The food turns out to be one of those cartoon hearts you collected for Alice in the first game, cooking on a stove in the studio cafeteria. A nearby note from the Joey Drew Studios chef talks about how one of his coworkers unexpectedly died in his kitchen on his last day before leaving the company while the chef was wondering what to cook because he didn't have anything left due to Joey's budget cuts. The chef notes how everyone else thinks the coworker already left and no one will notice he's dead...
- Knock over ten pots while out in the streets, then look up at the sky. The moon will suddenly get closer and bigger while bearing the face of an angry grimace, just like in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Chapter 5: The Dark Revival
- Twisted Alice returns, making her appearance by ambushing Audrey as she takes her third sip of a sleeping potion. Next thing we see? We're in an electric chair, surrounded by a whole bunch of Lost Ones unfortunate enough to have earned Alice's wrath.
- Wilson's true motive for Audrey. He plans to bring his cartoon creation, Shipahoy Dudley, to life in order to end the threat of the Ink Demon and take his place as a ruler that Wilson can control. However, in order to complete the process, Wilson needs Audrey's soul, intending to kill her. And we get a look at a row of saw blades revving up inside a capsule he's dragging Audrey toward, ready to shred her to pieces. During the struggle between Audrey and Wilson, she pushes him into the capsule instead, and the man is ripped into pieces by the saw blades as he lets out a dying scream. When the process is done, there's nothing left of Wilson but pieces of his arm and body surrounding the capsule.
- In the Ink Machine chamber, Audrey pulls the lever that activates the surrounding signal towers, nullifying her powers. Suddenly a large anchor throws itself from the ink pool in front of the Ink Machine and out jumps a hulking, horrific monstrosity resembling Shipahoy Dudley. As a result of being merged with Wilson's soul, this monster is an amalgamation of Shipahoy Dudley, his pet crab, and Wilson himself. You can even see Wilson's mangled corpse wrapped around the monster's waist, still conscious.
- A bit of fridge nightmare fuel; the reason dying to the Ink Demon in previous chapters results in a Game Over, requiring the player to reload a save file, rather than just respawning nearby like most enemies? Being eaten by the Ink Demon causes Audrey to be merged with him—if she'd have been eaten before, she would have been permanently trapped with no way to regain control of her body or reset the Cycle.
