List of bugs in Bendy and the Ink Machine

This is a list of all bugs found in Bendy and the Ink Machine.

List of bugs

Abnormal cart

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, there will sometimes be a bug where if Henry tries to glitch out of the roller coaster cart, he may randomly die, and if trying to respawn, the tunnel may push Henry back, soft-locking the game.
  • Another glitch occur if the player jumps into the cart without normally interacting it, thus, getting stuck there.

Audio log transcript glitch

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Fixed (Nintendo Switch)
• Description: After the audio log finishes, when the player goes back to where the audio log is, the transcript will still be on the upper left of the screen.

Audio log transcript's glitched name

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: Occasionally, the game will display names incorrectly in the transcripts of audio logs found in the studio, displaying file extensions in the format 'AUDIOLOG/NAME_<FIRST NAME>" instead of the correct '<First name> <Last name>' format.

Afterlife vision

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 2: The Old Song, if bringing the Miner Searcher or the regular Searcher from the Infirmary with Henry to the Music Department hall and then getting clobbered by Sammy after activating the pump switch in Sammy's office, the Searcher will keep attacking Henry. If Henry dies with enough damage, he will respawn to the sacrifice room instead of the Bendy statue, but the ink effects will still play. This will extend to the end of the chapter but can be fixed by exiting the game and reopening the save file.

Alice Angel's delayed speech

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if hitting the wall with Henry's weapon near when Alice drops the elevator down, there will be a bug causing Alice's voice and subtitles to be far out of sync, leading her speech to finish to the end of the chapter. A similar glitch may also happen: When Henry travels down to the Inky Abyss, Alice may repeat her line about the Projectionist.

Beast Bendy's ceiling wallpaper

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In the post-Chapter 5 epilogue, the ceiling textures of Joey Drew's apartment will be replaced with glitched screenshots of Beast Bendy dying.

Beast Bendy's Archive information board supremacy

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Fixed (Nintendo Switch)
• Description: In The Archives chapter, the characters' information boards are all replaced with Beast Bendy's character board.

Bertrum burying his arms

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, very rarely when fighting Bertrum, his arms may glitch into the ground, rendering the fight impossible. This can be fixed only by restarting the chapter.

Black screen of death

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC, PlayStation 4
• Status: Recent
• Description: Sometimes the black screen will show in few ways:
  • Loading the save file from the menu after the update following the release of Chapter 5: The Last Reel.
  • In the PlayStation 4 port, completing the post-Chapter 5 epilogue will sometimes cause the game to end up with a black screen after Henry restarts his cycle, preventing the cinematic credits from playing as well as from unlocking The Archives chapter and the Seeing Tool-related replay value.

Boris doll's missing shadow

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Recent
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, the Boris doll's shadow will not appear in the Haunted House's tunnel, despite being there.

Broken Piper

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, from the Piper's first encounter, Henry can still hit the Piper before he even pops out of The Butcher Gang poster without moving closer to the switch. Doing so causes the Piper to clip out of the poster without triggering his introduction animation, standing on thin air in a static pose. The Piper will still follow after Henry, but cannot harm him. It is also still possible to kill him. However, making this bug occur renders Henry unable to activate the switch, even after killing the Piper, and this will stay until restarting the game.
  • In Chapter 3's first release before the Chapter 4 update, this bug was slightly different. When hit, the Piper remains behind the poster instead of clipping out and following after Henry. With enough hits, the dying Piper will clip through the poster, dangling on thin air before vanishing into ink.

Butcher Gang-ed up

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, from the lobby area on Level 9 during Alice's task, when getting killed by the Butcher Gang close to the Bendy statue, the player will respawn but gets quickly killed by the enemies as soon as he does so, creating a loop and preventing the player from escaping.

Butcher Gang's elevator ride

Striker, as an example, stuck on top of the elevator.

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, when luring the Butcher Gang enemy to the elevator, the player can trigger two different bugs. If going up to upper levels, the Butcher Gang member will drop down, clipping out of the map. If going down to lower levels, the member will rise up until getting on top of the elevator. Doing so in either way will cause the Butcher Gang enemy to be permanently stuck, and if the enemy is stuck while holding a fetch quest item, it would soft-lock the player's progress.

Clipping wall

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 5: The Last Reel, during the fight with Sammy, it is possible for him to push Henry through the wall in the area he emerges from, making it impossible to exit the area after entering it. Reloading the game is a way to advance.

Disappearing maze

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if the player goes to anywhere except Level 14 after Alice tasks him with collecting the ink hearts, get himself killed by the Ink Demon, and then go back to Level 14, the entirety of the Projectionist's maze would vanish.
  • After this was noticed by Youtuber TZKUnit, the developers put a pair of broken headphones near Norman Polk's audio log as a reference to TZKUnit as a way of saying thanks.

End game soft-lock

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, when the player is about to enter the elevator to end the game, if entering for the second time the gates will open but does not close, preventing the final cutscene from starting. The only way to fix this bug is to restart the save.

Endless earthquakes

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: From the game's prototype demo only, approach the entrance to the ritual room, and walk back. The room will infinitely shake until Henry walks towards the pentagram to complete the chapter.

Falling out of the map

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: On random occasions, a soft-lock glitch would cause the player to fall out of the map. How this happened is unknown.
  • A similar glitch also happened in the game's prototype demo. After falling into a room from the lower level, grab the axe and start chopping boards to clear a path. Then, walk towards the crack from the right side of the hall. After following those steps, Henry has a rare chance to fall out of the map. This bug was later patched in the game's first remastered update for the DLC launch of Chapter 2.

Four-out-of-five ink hearts

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PlayStation 4
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, sometimes the player will only be able to find four of the five required ink hearts in Level 14. The only way around this bug is to restart the entire game from scratch in a new save file, but even then, the same bug may be encountered again.

Freezing Searchers

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In the first release of Chapter 2: The Old Song, if pausing the game when a Searcher is going after the player, the Searcher's animation will be seen slowly freezing in place.

Glitched credits

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: On rare occasions, the closing credits will bug out with credit texts and Bendy's head.

Glitching out of the elevator

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, towards the chapter's end, if the player moves close enough to any walls inside the elevator while it is falling, they will glitch out of the elevator. In the ending once the elevator crashed, Henry's point of view is down at Boris' legs. However, despite being fixed on the PC since the DLC release of Chapter 4, a bug returned in console ports.

"Hearing Voices" achievement locked

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, sometimes the "Hearing Voices" achievement fails to be unlocked.

Henry's delayed speech

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 2: The Old Song, Henry's next subtitle along with his "Where the hell did he go?" dialogue will be out of sync, by rushing to the entrance hall quickly after he finished speaking during his first encounter with Sammy. This was fixed in a patch upon Chapter 4's DLC release.

Infinite loading screens

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Status: Fixed
• Description: An infinite loading screen will appear when trying to access The Archives.

In-game text glitch

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: Sometimes the objectives, subtitles, and signs around the game will be messed up. Instead of showing normal texts, they show random voice lines from other characters, and the objectives will be only written 'OBJECTIVES/CH1_OBJ_01'. Furthermore, the objectives will change depending on which chapter the player is.

Ink-corrupted valve panel

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, as soon as the Ink Demon arrives when the player successfully unlocks the valve panel at the perfect time, the panel's lid will be later seen oddly having the Ink Demon's ink spread effect after he leaves the current location.

Jittering camera

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: Sometimes upon entering the game, the camera will not move properly, and will start and stop rapidly while moving very slowly. This issue can be fixed by turning off V-sync and motion blur. (If they are already off, turn them on, then back off again.)

Little Miracle Rocket Station

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if using the elevator but standing outside it, the player will not go up. Then, if the player enters a Little Miracle Station and leaves it, they will go up or down (depending on where the elevator is set to go).

Messed-up Bull's Eye minigame

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, in the Storage 9 location during the Bull's Eye minigame, the gun will malfunction and stops shooting, making it impossible for the player to complete the rest of the game.

Mission rewind

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if one saves their game, leave, and return, the player's mission may be set the previous one without being moved in the chapter, causing a softlock which can only be fixed by restarting the game from the beginning.

Never-ending ink spill

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, hitting one of the barrels numerous times with the plunger will cause the spilling audio to loop infinitely.

Non-vanishing Bacon Soup

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: Unknown
• Status: Recent
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, sometimes when obtaining the hidden empty Bacon Soup cans from Design & Research department, the soup cans will still remain on the shelf and only the lids disappear.

Non-vanishing bodies

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 5: The Last Reel, after defeating Sammy Lawrence and Beast Bendy, they will not disintegrate unlike the PC version of respective ending of their boss fights.

Not-so-hidden messages

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Status: Fixed
• Description: Due to graphical issues with the Nintendo Switch port, Henry's secret messages that are revealed by the Seeing Tool will pop up randomly.

Peeking Sammy

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 5: The Last Reel, at the Lost Harbor, Sammy can be clearly seen behind the boarded doorway, unlike the PC version of his boss fight where his body was fully coated in darkness, not supposed to be visible until the player approaches.

The Piper's cycle of rebirth

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, a very rare bug can cause the Piper to keep respawning from death after 10 seconds, creating an abnormally short endless loop.

Pitch-black menus and walls

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: Occasionally when changing the quality in settings, the pause and the main menu become very dark and some walls from the game will become black. The only way to fix this bug is to quit and reopen the game.

The Projectionist's magic tricks

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, if Henry is killed by the Projectionist after resetting the power, he will appear standing in the area where the Ink Demon drags his body. Hiding in the Little Miracle Station will result in the Projectionist appearing behind Henry.

Random progress reset

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, at some parts of the chapter, if leaving the game and return later, the player's progress will be reverted to an earlier portion of Chapter 3. For example, resetting the Butcher Gang fight before Alice's next fetch quest.

Sammy's missing shadow

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Recent
• Description: In Chapter 2: The Old Song, Sammy's shadow from the infirmary sewers will not appear.

Shadowy vision

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 2: The Old Song, only from the early Game Jolt port. If Henry approaches the shelf filled with Bendy dolls from S3 Vault, his vision starts fading to darkness, which was the same early effect triggered when the Ink Demon runs closer to Henry.

Sliding Ink Demon

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if the Tommy gun is used on the Ink Demon, his walking animation will freeze and slide after the player, without his chase theme playing.

Snake Henry and possessed Sammy

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 2: The Old Song, if pressing the ESC key numerous times the moment Sammy hits Henry, it will allow Henry to keep moving by 'floating'. When dropped to the floor, Henry will continue to move around, glitching around the map before Sammy takes him to the sacrifice room. Furthermore, if Henry moves around Sammy, Sammy's head will turn and then glitch through his chest or back if Henry is behind him.

Soup is good for stopping the shake

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 1: Moving Pictures, upon entering the sacrifice room, there is a can of Bacon Soup on a shelf. If the can is eaten, the earthquake-like shaking will stop.

Stubborn Projectionist

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, on Level 14, if the player hides in a Miracle Station when the Projectionist is chasing them, he will continue to do his swiping arm animation, instead of walking away when Henry closes the door. The player cannot exit the Miracle Station and the player will have to reopen the game and the save file. This should save the player's ink heart progress but the Projectionist will automatically be behind the player since he will be between the two entrances to the maze until they hide again or walk up the stairs to the elevator, for which the Projectionist cannot get to. This can sometimes add to the incorrect ink heart count glitch.

Stuck Beast Bendy

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 5: The Last Reel, during the second confrontation stage, there is a rare bug that causes Beast Bendy to charge and end up getting stuck to the wall, forcing the player to restart the encounter.

Stuck Brute Boris

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, during the boss fight against Brute Boris, he will sometimes get stuck in one place and start throwing punches indefinitely, soft-locking the game.

Stuck Ink Demon

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, Ink Bendy will sometimes stop moving while his walking animation keeps playing. It is also notable during the task of breaking the Bendy cutouts on Level K, where frequently breaking the cutouts will cause the Ink Demon to be stuck in the hallway after the angel and demon path rooms, making it impossible to pass through without dying. It was later fixed in the last remastered edition update for the DLC release of Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders.
  • A similar glitch also happened in the Android/iOS mobile ports, in Chapter 2: The Old Song where the Ink Demon gets stuck somewhere in the beginning of the maze and would not chase the player to the end. Therefore, he cannot kill the player unless back walking to where he got stuck and get too close.

Stuck in the ceiling

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: Unknown
• Status: Recent
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, if Bertrum raises his arm while the player is riding his cart, the player will get stuck in the ceiling.

Stuck in the ink tunnels

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: On very rare occasions, after dying, a soft-lock glitch would cause the player to get stuck in the tunnel and not be able to escape.

Stuck Projectionist

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, on Level 14, the Projectionist will sometimes get stuck in one of the maze's corners, making it easier for the player to grab all the ink hearts without getting chased.

Super-stretchy Butcher Gang

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: On rarer occasions, due to their models coded with ragdoll physics, the dying Butcher Gang member would have their bodies uncontrollably stretch around in every direction, and occasionally cause a lag spike. Also, sometimes the Fisher's head will get stuck, and if he dies at the stairs, notably at Level 9's lobby entrance in Chapter 3, his body will roll down the stairs but his fishing rod string will extend until he finally disappears.

Tom Angel

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 5: The Last Reel, during the opening cutscene, sometimes Allison Angel and Tom will be seen standing on the same spot together with their T-pose, as if merged into one model.

Trapping the Ink Demon

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, there is a trick that allows the player to trap the Ink Demon in the elevator and take him down to Level 14. The Ink Demon will often get stuck on walls and such, as he has no set path when down there. Since the Ink Demon never despawns, he will be stuck down there unless the player can lead him back to the elevator.

Unbreakable Alice Angel cutout

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Status: Recent
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, Alice Angel's cutout in the angel path room, unlike Bendy's, cannot break into pieces with weapons.

Unbreakable weapon

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, during the fight against Brute Boris, if the player is carrying the Gent Pipe or plunger when killed, they will enter the respawn sequence with their weapon still equipped. After respawning, the player will keep the weapon and it will no longer break.

Unbreakable wooden board

• Type: Game-breaking
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: In Chapter 5: The Last Reel, when traversing the decrepit hallway, the plank of wood scripted to break will not, making it impossible to progress. The only way to fix this problem is to restart the chapter.

(Un)locked chapters

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Recent
• Description: Sometimes, the main menu's chapter selection fails to remove the locked key pop-up for one of the unlocked chapters.

Unlocking achievements too early

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Unknown
• Description: Some achievements that involve collecting audio logs will be obtained before actually hearing every log in a chapter.

Useless Miracle Stations

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Recent
• Description: Rarely, in Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, the Ink Demon can attack even when the player is hiding in the Little Miracle Stations.

Vanishing Searchers

• Type: Cosmetic
• Platform: PC
• Status: Recent
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, while being chased by the Searchers on Level 9, if the player interacts with the bin to complete the fetch quest, the Searchers' despawning animation will not play and instead disappear out of thin air.

Wally Franks' glitched audio log transcript

• Type: Functional disruption
• Platform: PC
• Status: Fixed
• Description: In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if playing Wally's "Crack a Smile" audio log, then walk away and coming back, it would cause the log's transcript to remain on camera indefinitely. This can be fixed by playing the audio log again.