Buckshot Roulette creator Machine Party unleashes a bloody, deconstructed Mario Party

Mike Klubnika, the creator of *Buckshot Roulette*, is back with *Machine Party*—a collection of gory micro-games where you run, crawl, carve, and smoke to survive. Combat as absurd theater.

From Buckshot to Machine Party

If you've played Buckshot Roulette—and if you haven't, go do it, it's short, brutal, and brilliant—you already know what to expect from Mike Klubnika: radical economy of means, an atmosphere that sticks to the skin, and a core mechanic simple enough to master in five minutes but tense enough to never really let you breathe.

Machine Party is his new game, and this time Klubnika is attacking the party game formula by running it through his own grinder. Where Mario Party invites you to roll dice in good spirits, Machine Party asks you to run, crawl, carve, and smoke for your life in a collection of micro-games designed to maim.

What we know about the game

Machine Party presents itself as a collection of mini-games—micro-games in the project's terminology—with a gore and black comedy flavor. The visual atmosphere remains in line with Buckshot Roulette: lo-fi, almost monochrome, instantly recognizable. The few images released show distorted bodies, industrial-looking machines, and an aesthetic that hinges between 90s café games and experimental video art.

Klubnika is categorized by Kotaku as a "black hearted" creator—which, in the context of Machine Party, seems like a fairly accurate description.

Why we're interested

Buckshot Roulette was a perfect demonstration that the best party games aren’t born in hundred-person studios with astronomical marketing budgets. They’re born when a creator knows exactly what they want the player to feel, and builds the exact space for it.

Klubnika has found his tone. Machine Party will be the chance to see if the formula holds across multiple mini-games—or if Buckshot’s strength came precisely from its focus on a single mechanic pushed to exhaustion.

We're watching closely. Indie games that truly do something with violence—not as spectacle, but as material—always deserve our attention.

Preliminary note: ND (not played yet) To remember: Mike Klubnika renews his formula by venturing into the gore party game—consistent with his aesthetic, risky in multi-game execution. For whom: Fans of Buckshot Roulette, players who love radical indies, fans of interactive black comedy.