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Bendy and the Ink Machine
Give it 5 hours
Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 27% of players who started
Started playing 67% of owners
Steam reviews 89% positive of 37,356
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 5 reviews are negative (20%); after 7h it's 1 in 16 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- 27% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “To Hell and Back” (Complete the Main Story): only 27% of starters get there.
- Only 67% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 37,698 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 6.8h for positive, 4.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (66.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- To Hell and Back Complete the Main Story. Most players quit here 27% −73
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (61)
story milestone ending side
- Picking Up the Pieces Collect all the items. 100%
- Hello Bendy Fall through the floor. 97%
- Crooner Tuner Turn on the radio in Chapter One. 90%
- The Past Speaks Listened to All Audio Logs in Chapter One. 70%
- My Favorite Song Solve the musical puzzle. 57%
- The Believer Survive being chased by Bendy. 55%
- A Special Hat Run into Jack Fain. 54%
- Old Problems Listened to All Audio Logs in Chapter Two 48%
- Spare Parts Found all of Alice Angel's gears. 44%
- Coast to Coast Turn on the radio in Chapter Two. 43%
- Ultimate Stomachache Hunted down all Swollen Searchers. 43%
- Feeling the Pressure Solved all valve panel puzzles. 41%
- Anger Management Destroyed all Bendy cardboard cutouts in Chapter Three. 39%
- Front Lines Survived the Butcher Gang's attack. 39%
- Darker Places Survived the inky abyss. 36%
- Wasting Time Ring the bell. 33%
- Around And Around Defeat Bertrum. 32%
- A Haunting We Will Go Restore Power to the Haunted House. 32%
- Reunited Found Boris. 31%
- Shadows and Suffering Discover what's living below. 29%
- Pipes and Problems Found a new way through. 27%
- To Hell and Back Complete the Main Story. 27%
- Johnny's Broken Heart Play the pipe organ 5 times. 24%
- Still Listening Listen to All Audio Logs in Chapter Four. 24%
- The Path of the Demon Chose the way of Bendy. 23%
- Goldbricking Let others do the work. 22%
- The Creator Visit theMeatly. 21%
- The Path of the Angel Chose the way of Alice. 21%
- Turn It Up Turn on the radio in Chapter Three. 20%
- Now Hear This! Listen to All Audio Logs in Chapter Five. 19%
- Strike Up The Band Get all the Bendys on stage. 17%
- Bulls Eye Get a perfect score on Bull's Eye Bonanaza. 14%
- Knick-Knack Paddywhack Got the poor doggie a bone. 14%
- Finger Waggin Find the Radio in Chapter Four. 13%
- Norman's Fate Brought down The Projectionist. 12%
- Aggression Bathe in violence. 12%
- Call The Milk Man Get a perfect score on Bottle Wallop. 11%
- A Little Souvenier Take a Photo at the Photo Cutout. 11%
- Standing Proud Find out where you belong. 10%
- Blazing Metal Unleashed the Tommy Gun. 9.9%
- Man Behind the Curtain Visit theMeatly. 9.7%
- A Taste of Home Collected all the Bacon Soup in Chapter One. 7.9%
- Barbecued Visit theMeatly. 7.8%
- Going To Be Sick Go for a wild ride. 7.5%
- Canadian Bacon Collect all the Bacon Soup in Chapter Two. 7.3%
- Inner Child Play with 25 Bendy Dolls. 7.3%
- Long Forgotten Self Unearthed the sunken room. 7.3%
- Toe Tappin Find the Radio in Chapter Five. 6.7%
- Hearing Voices Listened to All Audio Logs in Chapter Three. 6.4%
- Tea Time Kicked back with theMeatly. 6.1%
- The Voice Collector Listen to All Audio Logs in the Game. 5.4%
- Unlikely Victory Complete Chapter Four with the Plunger. 5.4%
- Gold Record Find all the Hidden Radios in the Game. 5.2%
- A Sweet Discovery Say Hello to an Old Friend. 4.8%
- Bring Home the Bacon Collected all Bacon Soup in Chapter Three. 4.8%
- No Need for a Spoon Collect all the Bacon Soup in Chapter Five. 4.6%
- Grand Puppeteer Find theMeatly in All Chapters. 4.5%
- Just Like Mom Used To Make Collect all the Bacon Soup in Chapter Four. 4.2%
- Master of Bacon Collect all the Bacon Soup in the Game. 3.9%
- Valued Employee Take a longer walk. 3.9%
- Vintage Scares Visit Heavenly Toys during Ink Demon's Eve 3.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.