Bendy, the titular character of the franchise, is a cartoon demon who serves as the mascot for Joey Drew Studios.

The two actresses who voiced the character, Susie Campbell and Allison Pendle, manifest as versions of Alice in the games.

Thomas Conner, Allison's husband and an employee of the Gent Corporation, becomes Tom, a clone of Boris with a mechanical arm.

Other ink creatures include the Butcher Gang, Bendy's archenemies from the cartoons, who appear as recurring enemies in each game.

The members include Charley / Piper, the leader of the Butcher Gang who is a primate, Barley / Fisher a human sailor, and Edgar / Striker a spider.

Bendy and the Dark Revival adds a female member to the Butcher Gang called Carley / Slicer, a ghost girl.

Joey dies prior to the events of Bendy and the Dark Revival, but an ink replica of him guides Audrey.

A prequel to Bendy and the Ink Machine was released on February 10, 2020, as part of the original game's third anniversary, on PC and mobile platforms.

From an up-top vision as he navigates his way through Joey Drew Studios, running away from the Ink Demon, Alice Angel, the Butcher Gang, and the Projectionist.

Players control Audrey, an animator who must navigate the world of Joey Drew Studios while avoiding creatures, occasionally solving puzzles along the way.

Throughout the game, Audrey meets a cartoon version of Bendy and battles her way out of the old Gent building, now the region of the "Keepers", cyborg-like ink creatures created by Wilson trying to protect the Cycle and keep it from being reset.

The after credits show Gent Corp taking the Ink Machine and its items to an unknown location to continue with their experiments.

[12] The game was nominated for the Outstanding Visual Style category in the 2022 Steam Awards, though lost out to the PC port of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Riley can be attacked by the Ink Demon if she stands in one place for too long, destroys a certain number of Bendy cutouts, or on the PC version if the player holds the shift key and types K414.

Another update introduced a crudely made Bendy mascot costume that follows the player and whispers a distorted message.

A mobile spin-off, titled Bendy in Nightmare Run, was announced on January 26, 2018, and was released on iOS on August 15, 2018, and on Android on September 27.

[14][15] Developed by Karman Interactive and published by Joey Drew Studios Inc, the game introduces the cartoon versions of Bendy, Boris, and Alice Angel in an endless runner game, featuring four levels with a different "boss" cartoon monster, as well as collectible items and power-ups, including bacon soup cans that act as currency to buy abilities and upgrades.

[19] The novel centers on Daniel "Buddy" Lewek, a Jewish teenager who is hired by Joey Drew as a gofer and art apprentice at his studio.

He becomes friends with a writer named Dot, and the two work together to piece together the many mysteries they come across in the studio, such as the ink and the increasingly erratic behavior from the music director, Sammy Lawrence.

The novel is set shortly after the events of "Dreams Come to Life," taking place in Atlantic City in 1946, and follows three different protagonists with each perspective separated by chapters.

The story is set in 1953 and revolves around Rose Sorenson, a teenager from Brooklyn who gets a job as a personal assistant at the Kimset Production Studio in Manhattan.

[24] Joey Drew Studios Employee Handbook is a guide book written by Cala Spinner published by Scholastic on July 30, 2019.

[26] On September 12, the cover was revealed on Kress's Twitter account depicting the Ink Demon, the franchise's main antagonist as he appears in Bendy and The Dark Revival.

Co-creator Mike Desjardins has also expressed interest in a crossover with Cuphead, which had also reached peak popularity around the same time as Bendy and the Ink Machine, the first game.

Cuphead also makes use of a rubber hose style inspired by classic animation (e.g. Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse).

[29] On December 22 2018, this crossover was achieved in animated form by Javier Ulloa, Shelbie Copas and Chris Rudolph, and was written by Luis Cruz.

In 2020, Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick franchise, stated that he has interest in making a television adaptation based on the Bendy and the Ink Machine game.

This game will presumably take place during the events of Bendy and the Dark Revival, and center around Henry Stein as he plans to escape The Pit, a hellscape of metal and blood where only the darkest souls reside, after having been imprisoned by the Keepers.

The second is a small teaser showing the player (presumably Henry) holding an axe while staring at an unknown enemy that looks similar to a Lost One, only with blood splattered all over it, a cartoon glove for one of its hands and a beartrap-like contraption on its head.

[35] On May 10th, 2023, prototype footage of a first-person shooter game titled Bendy: The Silent City was accidentally uploaded publicly onto the Joey Drew Studios YouTube channel, before it was quickly privatized and deleted.