Bendy: Lone Wolf

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"Bendy: Lone Wolf™ will tests your ability to survive against ever increasing odds. Monsters and obstacles emerge from every direction as you journey into the rubberhose halls of the world's most evil animation studio. Every day is a challenge." — The summary of Bendy: Lone Wolf

Bendy: Lone Wolf, abbreviated as B:LW, is an survival horror game developed and published by Joey Drew Studios Inc. It is a rebrand and remaster of Boris and the Dark Survival, serving as the latter's replacement. The game was digitally released on August 15th, 2025 on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. Moreover, it was released on iOS and Android October 15th, 2025 and it was also physically released on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch on October 24th, 2025.

Summary

A Very Dark Survival

Bendy: Lone Wolf™ will tests your ability to survive against ever increasing odds. Monsters and obstacles emerge from every direction as you journey into the rubberhose halls of the world's most evil animation studio. Every day is a challenge.

Twisted Halls

Become Boris as he ventures deep into the endlessly generated corridors of Joey Drew Studios and beyond in search of supplies, weapons, and the dark truths that await him. The secrets of the machine are hiding around every corner.

Monster Mayhem

The cartoon creeps of the Dark Puddles are unleashed to stop Boris in his horrific quest. Battle them back with well-timed attacks and the clever use of dangerous traps. Smash them back into the shadows before they drag Boris away.

Inky Scares

The Ink Demon stalks Boris at every turn. Nowhere is safe from his reach. Run and hide in this pulse-pounding game of cat and mouse. Stay out of sight when you hear the beating of his ink heart.

Synopsis

Characters

Main article: List of characters (Bendy: Lone Wolf)

• Boris the Wolf - A physical manifestation of the cartoon character of Boris the Wolf and the ink form of Buddy. He serves as the main protagonist.
• Ink Demon - The main antagonist that hunts down Boris on every floor.
• Porter - An adventurous Lost One who was playing hide-and-seek, serving as one of the playable protagonists.
• Sammy Lawrence - The former music director of Joey Drew Studios residing in the Music Department before being captured by the Keepers. He is one of the playable protagonists.
• Heidi - A playful Lost One who was playing hide-and-seek before being captured by the Keepers.
• Joey Drew - The founder of Joey Drew Studios who is only heard in his secret audio log.
• Boris clones - A group of Boris clones that have been mutilated by Alice Angel.
• Thomas Connor - The Gent employee at Joey Drew Studios who's behind the dismantled Ink Machine prototype. He is only heard in his two audio logs.
• Wally Franks - The janitor and repairman of the studio and only is heard in two audio logs.
• Norman Polk - The lead projectionist of Joey Drew Studios. He is only heard in his one audio log but his ink form appears as one of the major antagonists.
• Bertrum Piedmont - The designer behind the Bendy Land amusement park and the creator of the park's animatronics. He is only heard in his two audio logs.
• Milla Legna - A Russian woman who is seemingly trapped in the ink realm but is actually Alice Angel in disguise.
• Lord Amok - The ruler of the cult from the sewers. He's the one responsible for creating the traps in every level. He has only one audio log.

Story

Prologue

During the events of the Dark Revival, Boris tries to survive off whatever resources he can find within the forgotten Studio, all while fearing the Ink Demon, who stalks his every move.

Rediscovered identity

While scavenging around the Studio, Boris finds scraps that remind him of a past long gone, the man he used to be.

Higher score

Boris heads on over to the Artist's Rest to repair the Fuseball game to get a higher score.

The hunt

Boris goes to the Abyss to collect ink hearts, due to his curiosity, he accidentally unleashed the dangerous hunter in the darkness, the Projectionist.

After Boris escapes from him, he is decapitated by Wilson Arch's Keepers.

Deceived

Boris finds tapes from a woman named Milla Legna, who seems to be a soul lost inside the studio, as Boris opens the door he finds something besides a young girl behind the door, instead he finds Alice Angel trying to lure him to his demise, after Boris escapes from Alice she is then taken by another Keeper.

Bad decision

Boris saw a strange crate in his safehouse, letting his curiosity getting the better of him, opens the crate with a padlock key, however this would result in a bad decision as inside the crate was the Butcher Gang. Boris unleashed them.

Past vision

After Boris collects all four candles and retrieved Sammy's mask, he gets a vision of the past of the Mad Maestro of the studio, Sammy Lawrence, lurking around the Music Department. Eventually, Sammy retreats to his sanctuary, playing songs of sacrifice, before he too, is taken by a Keeper.

Lost story

Boris learns about a story of two friends in the darkness, their names are Porter and the other being Heidi.

While he and Heidi were playing hide-and-seek, Heidi was taken by Keepers.

Porter escaped, Heidi, did not.

Final stop

The wolf's final stop is the Gent laboratory, he discovers a strange machine, turning it on reveals a portal, a portal that goes out of the ink realm but not until a horde of enemies found him in which he fought for his life. Once all enemies were defeated. Boris walks into the portal, freeing himself from the madness.

Gameplay

Bendy: Lone Wolf is a top-down survival horror roguelike. Players use an elevator to travel down to one of the studio's many floors - of which there have been 8 confirmed - with each level being randomly generated. While exploring a level, players will have to use improvised weapons in order to fight off various ink creatures, with players now being able to block attacks. Players also have access to an arcade area, where they can spend found Slugs to play several minigames.

Lone Wolf features three difficulty modes: Easy, Normal, and Hard. Hard difficulty features Permadeath mode, where if the player dies, they will lose their save and have to start from the beginning of the game.

Porter is a playable character in Lone Wolf, replacing the Lost One from the original release and gaining the Flow ability from Dark Revival. Additionally, Porter will have a unique objective while being played as, having to find Heidi in a game of hide-and-seek.

Sammy returns as a playable character, working exactly as he did in Boris and the Dark Survival. He cannot sprint, instead being able to flow through cracks in the wall. Sammy has a unique objective in the Music Department, a direct recreation from Chapter 2. He must make his way to his office while evading the Ink Demon, eventually ending up in the recording room to play the instruments in the order on the wall painting in his office. Upon entering his sanctuary, the level is over.

There are several items throughout the game that can be collected to unlock story elements, including safehouse scraps, padlock keys, fuses, weapon components, ink hearts, Gent pipes, slugs, and more. These items can be found scattered around levels within lockers, fuseboxes, and lockboxes - which each have a small minigame to unlock - and within breakable crates and on tables and such. To unlock new floors via the elevator, the player can find elevator buttons to progress to later levels.

Progression

By collecting items scattered around the studio, the players can progress the story and mechanics of the game in several ways. In the left upper corner of the lift room there is a board the player can view that shows 7 check boxes, which are marked off as the players finish each stage.

By collecting all 7 pieces of safehouse scrap, the player unlocks the collage located on the right upper wall of the main room of Boris' safehouse, along with a small cutscene reminiscent of one seen previously in Boris and the Dark Survival. A mystery box is placed near said collage following its completion.

By collecting all 5 padlock keys, the player can unlock a large crate south of the lift room and by doing so, release the Butcher Gang. Another mystery box is placed nearby.

Each floor unlocked through the course of the game's progression has different level generations and enemies. The first unlocked is the Studio, which primarily resembles the floors explored during Bendy and the Ink Machine: Chapter 3 - Rise and Fall. The most common enemies there are Searchers, which typically appear out of ink puddles.

Another floor is the Artists' Rest, as originally seen in Bendy and the Dark Revival. This floor features more lockers, lockboxes, and fuseboxes than the Studio, and introduces both slugs and Lost Ones.

The Abyss is a floor reminiscent of the Projectionist's lair, floor 14 of the studio (as is seen in Chapter 3: Rise and Fall). Flyers attack the player occasionally, and ink hearts are found near dead Butcher Gang members.

Development

The game was first discovered around January 2024.. The developers confirmed that the game is a rebrand of Boris and the Dark Survival, such as an image uploaded by theMeatly of the Mystery Box (with the same textures from Boris and the Dark Survival) slightly opened with the tag "Lone Wolf", along with multiple of Mike's tweets.

On May 13th, 2024, theMeatly confirmed that the game is more roguelike in terms of mechanics, along with combat, more complete features, a proper story conclusion, achievements and a hard mode where the game entirely starts over if the player dies.

On October 23rd, 2024, Joey Drew Studios Inc announced the game was completed and was now entering its porting stage.

It was later confirmed that Bendy: Lone Wolf was going to be a separate game conceived to replace Boris and the Dark Survival, rather than being an update to the latter as originally planned.

On December 16th, 2024, the official trailer was released, along with the game being officially put on Steam.

On February 7th, 2025, A fan by the name of ChairThatSpins shared two screenshots of the game that had been given by the team in one of his YouTube videos, which were uploaded on the Steam page long after that.

On July 3rd, 2025, a new trailer was released, announcing the game to be launching on almost all platforms on August 15th, 2025.

From August 4th, 2025 to August 24th, 2025, Joey Drew Studios Inc released short-form videos on their YouTube channel, ranging from tiny information about the game (achievements, difficulty, etc.) to full-blown behind the scenes of it (generated levels and hazard designs).

On October 6th, 2025, Mike D shared an iOS screenshot of the icon for the game on his YouTube channel and his X/Twitter account, alongside the 2nd mainline game, Bendy and the Dark Revival.

Trivia

• During the announcement of mobile ports' release, the video advertisement's title refers the game's name as "Bendy: The Lone Wolf", as in the addition of the word "the".

Gallery

Main gallery: Bendy: Lone Wolf/gallery

Screenshots

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Teasers

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  A teaser for Bendy: Lone Wolf in Bendy: Secrets of the Machine.
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  A teaser released on Joey Drew Studios Inc's socials for Bendy: Lone Wolf.
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  Ditto, but on full screen.
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  A teaser of Boris hitting the Flyer that was shown in Mike D's profile banner.
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  A teaser of the Select Floor.
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  A teaser of Slugs.
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  A teaser of the Projectionist.
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  A teaser of Mystery Boxes.
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  A teaser of Alice Angel.
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  A teaser of the Mechanical Bendy.
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  The promotional image of Milla.
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  The promotional image of The End.

Miscellaneous

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  The logo for Joey Drew Studios Inc in the trailer.
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  The application icon for Bendy: Lone Wolf.
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  The Steam Capsule for Bendy: Lone Wolf.
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  The Steam Hero for Bendy: Lone Wolf.
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  The cover that is shown on the Joey Drew Studios Inc website.

Videos

• "BENDY: LONE WOLF" - Official Trailer - Coming 2025 (2024)
• "BENDY: LONE WOLF" - Release Date Trailer (2025)

See also

• Boris and the Dark Survival, the original game and the predecessor.

External links

• Bendy: Lone Wolf on Joeydrewstudios.com
• Bendy: Lone Wolf on Steam.
• Bendy: Lone Wolf on PlayStation store.
• Bendy: Lone Wolf on Xbox.
• Bendy: Lone Wolf on Nintendo.
• Bendy: Lone Wolf on Silver Lining Interactive.