
INK INSIDE is a cozy & chaotic story-driven action RPG from ex-Cartoon Network (+ horror) devs! A unique indie cartoon + RPG adventure with beat-em-up & ball combat, laughably weird items, crazy deep lore, live action cutscenes, handmade assets, human orchestrated soundtrack, and heart.
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INK INSIDE is a hand drawn adventure with the heart of an indie cartoon!
Play as Stick, an unfinished doodle trapped in a box of notebooks beneath a slowly leaking ceiling. As the water seeps into the notebooks, it warps the land around them and turns once friendly doodles into mindless, soggy monsters. Uncover lost memories and save your friends by battling back the waves of wetness corrupting the world
Reveal Stick’s Genetic Memory or Gene Meme - the memory each doodle shares with their creator, Hannah. Explore the worlds between the sketchbooks to unlock memories and meet a vibrant cast of characters who are fully voiced and animated. Featuring voices by Brian David Gilbert of YouTube & Dropout fame, and Deneen Melody from Evangelion and Netflix’s Romantic Killer.
Meet and recruit a colorful team of characters to help you on your journey. From the dependable Detective Fuzz to Traff, the Princess of Cursing who hits like a truck and talks like a truck driver. Unravel each character's story to fill in the blanks of your own history, delve into poignant live-action cut scenes, and discover the Genetic Memory that led to their creation.
Battle enemies in action-packed dodgeball-meets-beat-em-up style combat that will see you dodging patterns of projectiles and chaining combos to escape a mushy fate. Collect new gear, unlock stronger abilities and fill your COOL MOVES bar to BREAK THE RULES and deal extra damage by smashing through the invisible wall protecting your enemies.
Complete quests to uncover deep lore and explore sprawling, gorgeously illustrated worlds, from Fuzzball Forest to the Sugar Swamp. Visit shops to upgrade your gear, level up, and mix and match new mechanics that will aid you on your epic quest to save the Princess Land Notebook!
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Languages: English*, Japanese*languages with full audio support
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this game basically altered my brain chemistry in a positive way!!!!! loved the story and combat and characters so much, I could not put this game down. went from the demo to the full game 5 hours straight
This game is just AMAZING. It has amazing art, absolutely lovable characters, cool game concept, interesting and lived-in world building and tackles to question "What small things can inspire us?" This game scratch my brain in the perfect way
VICOTORY
ooooooo you will be attached to the silly whimsy circle head guy and curse objecthead ooooooo you cannot resist it
有成就 没中文
Fun game with some unique mechanics and plenty of comedy.
If you love cartoons and feel like you need to work through some unresolved dodgeball trauma, this is the perfect game for you. The characters are so diverse, the voice acting is fantastic, and the gameplay is really easy to grasp; yet the battles can be a real challenge. Unfortunately, I have a terrible sense of direction and only played the game occasionally, so every time I continued my journey, I somehow didn’t know where to go or what to do - even though there’s a quest list and a map with markers for important locations. I think my problem was that sometimes you need specific cores to trigger cutscenes or enter certain areas, and the game either doesn’t tell you at all or only tells you once. So if you don’t have the patience to run back and forth until you figure things out again, it can be a bit frustrating. In the end, I completed the first arc at 90%, including all main and (almost) all side quests - I somehow still have 10% of the map left to explore and about 10 gifts to collect, even though I swear I’ve been everywhere. The only two quests I couldn’t finish were the one about Stick’s memories (which will probably be resolved in another story arc?) and the one with the hair ribbon, since I had finished the game before I found the ribbon & now that I’ve found it, the character who gave me the quest is in a different location and no longer triggers the old conversation. All in all, I was a bit lost at times, but I always had fun and would recommend it 5/5 c:
I played this game lasts year, and despite playing other bigger games like Expedition 33 I CANNOT stop thinking about INK INSIDE. It's just a completely unique combination of things that grows on you the more you play it. The story, the characters, the gameplay. All really fun and more memorable than almost anything else I played in 2025 (at least for me). The game is incredibly deceptive (in a good way) in that what appears to be cute and simple on the surface, is actually deep and just gets deeper the more you play. S+ mode is going to be perfect to show off how deep the mechanics in this game can get, and I can't wait to be one of the first to beat it simply because I know how to block / dodge first for buffs before attacking >:)
A whimsical little game with a touch of psychological horror. Marketed as a Coop game but I feel like with our short time of gameplay it could have used well... more gameplay. We spent most of the 30 minutes talking to npcs who while their terrible audio quality was kind of funny became a bit much after 20 minutes of talking and like 2 combat encounters. We probably should have read the tutorials but the combat was a bit confusing, again that's probably on us. Overall the theme was really interesting with everything being doodles, allowing characters to be diverse in style and design. The story was mysterious with the live action footage strung throughout. So our major issue was having to read through dialogue in a coop game where we just wanted to put balls on peoples faces. I recommend this game if you and your friend like balls... each others balls...
This is the kind of game that, once you start it, at some point, you'll be awake all night thinking about how it will end. (imo the best way possible no spoilers) The story is somewhat of a slow burn compared to the bigger amount of content in the game, and there’s a few things that aren’t answered - which will keep you up at night - but in a good way imo. Overall, the story provides a very realistic depiction of family and where inspiration comes from and reads like a modern fable. This game will draw you in make you laugh, confuse you, punch your heart, and then make you laugh harder. Best played with your friends or kids. “Don't forget - there’s nothing wrong with asking for help.”
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