The creator of last year’s dark gambling hit Buckshot Roulette has launched a new multiplayer party game that trades Mario Party’s cheerful competition for lethal stakes and visceral consequences.
Machine Party, developed by Mike Klubnika alongside GDeavid and published by Oro Interactive, puts up to four players through a collection of deadly minigames where failure means graphic elimination rather than lost points. The game is available now on Steam.
Players face over a dozen challenges ranging from navigating minefields to building oversized weapons to eliminate opponents. Some minigames allow all participants to escape together, while most pit players directly against each other in competitions to see who survives the longest on runaway escalators or similar hazards.
The aesthetic matches Klubnika’s established style of grimy, industrial horror. The game’s setting appears to exist within the same rust-stained universe as his earlier work, featuring the loud, mechanical atmosphere fans of his previous titles will recognize.
From Russian Roulette to Party Carnage
Klubnika built his reputation on Buckshot Roulette, a 2023 Russian roulette simulator that became an unexpected success. That game placed players opposite a grinning dealer in a tense battle of odds and strategy, using items to tilt probability while risking their character’s life with each trigger pull.
Before Buckshot Roulette’s breakout success, Klubnika developed numerous smaller experimental horror games exploring similar themes of body horror and mechanical violence. His back catalog includes titles like Fused 240, though it was the gambling sim that brought him wider attention in the indie game community.
Machine Party represents a shift from one-on-one tension to chaotic multiplayer competition, while maintaining the developer’s signature approach to consequence and violence. Where traditional party games punish failure with point deductions, Klubnika’s version makes elimination literal and graphic.
The game draws clear inspiration from competitive survival fiction like Squid Game, filtering those deadly-stakes competitions through the framework of casual party game mechanics. The contrast between the lighthearted party game format and the brutal outcomes forms the core of the experience.
Key questions answered
Who developed Machine Party and when was it released?
Machine Party was developed by Mike Klubnika alongside GDeavid and published by Oro Interactive. It is available now on Steam.
How many players can play Machine Party and what happens when they fail?
Up to four players can participate. When players fail minigames, they face graphic elimination rather than just losing points like in traditional party games.
What was Mike Klubnika’s previous successful game?
Klubnika created Buckshot Roulette in 2023, a Russian roulette simulator that became an unexpected success and brought him wider attention in the indie game community.