Machine Party
Walkthrough

02 // Field notes

Machine Party is the horror party game from Mike Klubnika, the creator of Buckshot Roulette, co-developed with GDeavid and published by Oro Interactive. Released on July 30, 2026, it locks 2–4 players into 15 lethal minigames where losing a round doesn’t cost you points — it costs you your character. The notes below cover the machines that kill players most, built on the real, verified mechanics — what the rooms actually do, what actually kills you, and what actually wins.

Chisel Gauntlet

Chisel Gauntlet locks every player at their own workbench with a 3×3 block cube, a hammer and chisel, and a sign overhead that says the whole game in three words: MEMORIZE. CARVE. SUBMIT. A target shape — a cube with specific segments missing — is shown first, and your job is to memorize it. Then the clock starts, and you strike segments off your own cube until it matches the target exactly. Carving is one-way: a segment you remove cannot be reattached, so every strike is a commitment. When you think the shape matches, you hit SUBMIT. A correct submission with time on the clock keeps you alive; the round’s achievement, Flourished Memories, goes to players still standing when the maximum number of segments has been removed.

The trap is that both failure states are instant. Submit a wrong shape and you are executed on the spot. Let the timer run out without submitting and you are shot anyway. In between sits the over-carving trap — one segment too many and your only recovery is RESET, which rebuilds the cube and burns precious seconds. In a full lobby all four players carve simultaneously at separate benches, so the room fills with hammer noise and nobody can see anybody else’s cube, which is exactly the pressure the game wants. The players who win consistently treat the memorize phase as the real round: chunk the missing segments, carve corners and edges first, stop one segment early to double-check, and submit on certainty instead of racing the clock.

Read the full breakdown — the memorize routine, reset discipline, and the multiplayer mind games — in the Chisel Gauntlet full guide.

Wrong Way

Wrong Way is the round that makes lobbies go quiet. Four parallel escalators run downward into a pit of spikes and saw blades, and every player in the lobby is dropped onto a lane at the same time. Arrow signs above the lanes show the correct directional input; enter the right direction and you climb, enter the wrong one and you stumble, lose ground, and break your streak. The belt never stops pulling you down, so there is no resting spot — only pace. Slip far enough and the pit at the bottom claims you, with no revive and no second chance. The round runs until one survivor is left.

The single most important thing to know is what Wrong Way is not. Some guides describe it as a solo 50-step memory challenge where one mistake resets the run. That description confuses the game with its achievement: Stairmaster — earned by taking 50 correct steps in a row — is a streak badge unlocked by only a small slice of players, not the rule set. The real game is a live, multiplayer climb: the belt, the arrow signs, the pit, and the bodies stumbling around you all matter at once. Winning comes from rhythm, not memorization — read your own lane’s arrows, keep a sustainable cadence, recover from stumbles by re-reading the next sign instead of mashing, and let the pressure of your clean climb force everyone else into mistakes.

The complete escalator survival system — pace control, stumble recovery, the Stairmaster streak, and how four-player crowding changes the climb — is in the Wrong Way full guide.

Tunnel Hazard

Tunnel Hazard is Machine Party’s elimination round in its purest form: a dark industrial tunnel lined with nooks — recessed alcoves — and a lethal hazard that sweeps the whole tunnel on a timer. When the sweep comes, anyone standing in the open is gone. The nooks are your only shelter, and the lights tell you which ones are live: a green-lit nook is safe to claim, a red-lit one collapses on whoever is inside. Each sweep consumes more of the tunnel, and the number of safe nooks keeps shrinking until there are fewer nooks than players. From that moment on it is musical chairs with a body count, and the last player controlling the final nook when the round resolves wins.

The skill is positional, not reflexive. Winners start each round from the center of the tunnel, where every remaining nook is reachable, and they commit the instant the lights change — hesitation is the number-one killer here. If two players converge on the same nook, the one who peels off early toward the next-closest option usually lives; the one who races for the contested spot usually dies with it. Late rounds collapse into a duel over one or two candidate nooks, and that is where tracking which nooks get consumed each sweep pays off: you should already be standing next to your next nook before the sweep audio spikes.

Timing patterns, light reading, and the final-nook endgame are covered in detail in the Tunnel Hazard full guide.

Minefield

Minefield sends you and your buddies down a mined corridor with a mine detector and a harvester machine rolling in behind you. The detector only reads the ground while you stand still, so the round is a constant argument between caution and speed: stop, sweep, mark the safe line, move — while the harvester closes the gap and crushes anyone dawdling. The run takes three rounds, and the mine layout you learn in one round carries into the next, so memory is the real resource. Step on a mine and you don’t die cleanly; you lose the lower half of your body and keep going by crawling, slower and more exposed, which turns one mistake into a race the harvester usually wins. Clean crossings come from disciplined stop-and-sweep rhythm early and confident straight-line runs late, once the field is mapped.

Other Minigames at a Glance

Duck Hunt

Duck Hunt is the asymmetric one: a single Hunter hides at the end of an obstacle-strewn trench with a sniper rifle while every other player runs the corridor toward them. Runners win by reaching the Hunter; the Hunter wins by dropping everyone first. Headshots matter, cover matters more, and the round flips completely depending on which side of the rifle you spawn.

Table Manners

Table Manners sits the whole lobby at a table with a plate of peas and a fork, under the watch of a murderer at the head of the table. Eat with the mouse-button fork motions while his paper is up; the moment he looks up, freeze — anyone caught mid-bite gets shot. First finished plate wins, so the real skill is eating fast in the blind windows and stopping instantly on the tell.

Firearm Factory

Firearm Factory scatters weapon parts around a workshop and dares the room to build first. Grab parts, carry them to the assembly table, and seat them one after another; the first completed firearm wins the round. Route planning beats raw speed — players who loop the room in one clean circuit beat players who sprint back and forth.

The Remaining Eight in One Line Each

• Stable Footing — floor tiles vanish round by round; stay on solid ground longer than the group.
• Inside Job — grab a syringe and infect another player before anyone works out what happened.
• Smoke Break — smoke your quota of cigarettes as fast as you can without choking, under surveillance.
• Debris Platforms — hurl crates to knock rivals off floating platforms before they do it to you.
• Spine Breaker — pass the device before the countdown hits zero; hot potato with consequences.
• Lethal Rebound — push, bounce, and shove the lobby into a row of spinning hacksaws.
• Forklift Certified — drive forklifts to bank crates in your deposit zone; hoarding beats racing.
• The Filter — an accuracy-under-pressure round where only a clean, precise pass is safe.