Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

The Inkwell is a fast-paced observation horror game where finding the anomaly is only the beginning.

As a priest sent by the Vatican, your task is to inspect Inkwell Studios, monitor vintage cartoon feeds, spot hostile entities bleeding into the signal, and purge them before the broadcast goes permanently dead and the corruption leaks through the screen.

WATCH THE CORRUPTION SPREAD

Innocent cartoon scenes twist under demonic influence. Tiny, easily missed anomalies rapidly escalate into violent paranormal threats that consume the entire feed.

PATTERN RECOGNITION

Every entity has distinct traits. Consult your guidebook, identify the threat, and perform the exact sequence of holy rituals to force it out before all hell breaks loose. But beware: mistake accelerates the corruption.

HIGH-STAKES OBSERVATION

No time to waste! Fail to repel an entity in time, and that feed is lost for the rest of the broadcast.

RETRO ANIMATION MEETS OCCULTISM

Immerse yourself in a claustrophobic analogue horror experience that blends vintage rubber-hose animation with sacred relics and dark corporate lore.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The Inkwell contains horror, jump scares, disturbing monster and anomaly imagery, and occasional stylised cartoon blood. The game uses a hand-drawn rubber-hose cartoon style, and the blood and horror imagery are not realistic. The game does not contain graphic violence, sexual content, nudity or drug use.