How to save your progress (bug fix and more) | Bendy and the Ink Machine

If you encountered a bug and your game progress has not been saved, this guide will help you!

Start a new game

First of all, make sure to click on NEW GAME before you start playing.
Don't start with SELECT CHAPTER or you aren't gonna be able to save your game at all.



Next, when you exit and come back to your game again, press CONTINUE.
DO NOT click on SELECT CHAPTER or all the progress you've made will be lost!

Keep an eye on Bendy (BUG)

Frequently check your down right corner of the screen because sometimes game just stops saving progress. In this case, you don't lose your entire file but rather a part of it.

If you see Bendy icon flashing rapidly on your screen for a minute or two instead of disappearing into the abyss then that's the reason why you start so far behind from the last save.




SOLUTION:

Simply restart the game once you see it (NOTE: restart from Steam, not Main Menu).
You may lose some progress, depending on how quickly you noticed the glitch, but at least you'll be able to save again.

Save manually

The game will save your progress from time to time but I'd recommend doing it manually. Copy your not corrupted save file for a backup option just in case.

UPDATE: save file

Here's my save file with completed game in case nothing from this guide worked for you.

Paste it in "Saves" folder located in AppData \ LocalLow \ Joey Drew Studios \ Bendy and the Ink Machine \ Saves

SAVE FILE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VhAAdKei6fxaF2yYjN-CfD5tH3twcam5/view?usp=sharing

The End

Thank you for reading my guide and good luck! :)

[haruspex's tormentous nightmare]

@Noomie the saves folder's path should be AppData\LocalLow\Joey Drew Studios\Bendy and the Ink Machine\Saves

[Noomie]

I opened the folder for BATIM but I don't have a folder that says saves on it. I was playing off chapter selection but I made a new save file for this there still isn't a folder in my game files. do i need to play more or should i just start from scratch even though i was on chapter 4

[2ombi33n]

something sad about this it is that when u are doing the archivements of collecting all the bacon soups and leave (it doesnt matter if you saved) the soups re appear and count like they never were picked and u cant go back to eat em chapter 3, 4 and 5 (the longest ones)

[simulaKRUM]

Fuck this! Lost my progress and uninstalled the game.

[haruspex's tormentous nightmare]

@evanpokraka88 press Win + R to open the Run app then enter %AppData% and press OK

[V-27]

I cant find the appdata folder? WHERE IS IT?!

[Shade]

this really helped me as well i had to gooooo all the way back to the begining when i closed the game

[Lizard Blizzard]

yeah I just finished the game and when I went to check the archives, it said I was still on chapter 2

[NONAME]

thank you. boris scammed me and made me get him five bowls of soup, but now i can finally stop cooking.

[maw170813]

It happened to me in chapter 5 :(