Buckshot Roulette creator Mike Klubnika reveals Machine Party, a gore-soaked Mario Party rival

Mike Klubnika, the solo developer behind the 2023 breakout hit Buckshot Roulette, has announced Machine Party — a multiplayer micro-game collection that takes the party game format and runs it through a meat grinder. It's out now on Steam.

Machine Party supports up to four players and packs over a dozen mini-games, each built around survival rather than fun in any conventional sense. Some rounds let everyone escape together — mostly intact — like navigating a narrow minefield. Others are straight-up elimination: who survives longest on a runaway escalator, or who builds a giant ACME-style gun fast enough to blast the other players off the screen first. The tone is somewhere between Squid Game cynicism and the darkest possible reading of a Wario death.

Klubnika made Buckshot Roulette almost entirely alone, and it became one of the more surprising indie hits of 2023 — a two-player game of lethal shotgun roulette that leaned hard into dread and dark humor. Machine Party looks like a natural extension of that sensibility, just scaled up to a group setting. Where Buckshot Roulette isolated you with one opponent and a loaded gun, Machine Party throws a whole friend group into the blender.

No pricing details or additional platform announcements were included in the reveal, but the Steam page is already live. If Buckshot Roulette's reception is any guide, Klubnika's fanbase will not need much convincing.