Quick Answer: Machine Party ships with 15 minigames, and the fastest honest map of them is the game's own achievement list — one achievement per minigame, each naming its game and its signature move. The roster: Firearm Factory (scavenge and assemble a gun, then use it), Duck Hunt (headshots in a trench), Tunnel Hazard (claim the last nook), Spinebreaker (timed hot-potato), Debris Platforms (knock rivals off with thrown crates), the Filter (accuracy under pressure), Stable Footing (crumbling tile floor), Wrong Way (escalator steps with a correct sequence), Table Manners (a lethal eating contest), Inside Job (syringe sabotage), Chisel Gauntlet (carve the cube, submit in time), a minefield crossing (sonar optional, courage mandatory), Forklift Certified (crate logistics), Lethal Rebound (hacksaws are involved), and a smoking game (don't choke). A full pass over all 15 runs about an hour. This page is written at launch from official material, press coverage and early community play — per-game meta tactics are thin one day in, and we flag what's confirmed versus inferred.
All 15 on one board — each icon is a minigame, and each minigame has exactly one achievement attached. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
The Roster: What Each Game Is
What follows draws on three sources, in order of authority: the official achievement texts (which state each game's decisive action), the official screenshots, and launch coverage plus early player reports. Where we're reading between the lines, we say so.
Firearm Factory — assemble first, shoot first
A scavenging race through a workshop floor: gun components sit on benches and pedestals with silhouette slots (visible in the official screenshots), and the first player to assemble a working firearm turns the round into a very short hunt. The achievement — kill someone who has already assembled a gun before you — confirms the comeback play: losing the race isn't losing the round if you can ambush the winner before they find you. Two balance notes from launch-week threads: shoving has effectively no cooldown and a deceptively long range, so expect push-spam skirmishes over parts; and missed shots currently carry no real penalty, so armed players fire freely.
Firearm Factory: parts on the slots, players hauling components — assembly order is the whole game. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
Duck Hunt — the trench
One side holds a rifle overlooking a floodlit trench full of cover; the other side runs it. The official screenshots show the shooter's first-person view down the trench lanes. Headshots are rewarded (BOOM HEADSHOT!, 44.6% of players — so the rifle is not hard to use). The first community tactics thread (day one) has real advice for both seats: as a runner, bait the shot — show yourself, force the trigger, then move during the recovery — and note the thread's observation that the second runner tends to win because the sniper fixates on whoever moves first. As the sniper, don't sit scoped — stay unscoped for field of view and only scope to take the shot.
The shooter's seat in Duck Hunt: floodlights, lanes, and friends pretending to be brave. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
Tunnel Hazard — musical chairs, industrial edition
The achievement text gives the structure away: win by taking the last nook. Something lethal sweeps the tunnel; nooks are safe; there are fewer nooks than players as rounds progress. It's musical chairs where the music is machinery. Early tactic, inferred from the format: fights over a contested nook kill both claimants' timing — commit early to an uncontested one and only race for the last nook when it's actually the last.
Spinebreaker — hot potato with a countdown
Throw the device with under 1 second left on its timer is the achievement, which tells you the loop: a timed device passes between players, and whoever holds it at zero eats the consequence. A day-one thread already describes the working meta: hold the device until around 20 seconds remain, then throw it at someone — at that point the victim has little time to pass it on, making it close to a guaranteed kill. The same thread notes the device's final phase moves as fast as a player, so once it's chasing you late, escapes are rare — and that hiding in corners makes you hard to spot in the first place. The achievement is the greedy version of the meta: hold past 20, past 10, and release under one second.
Debris Platforms — king of the towers
Players stand on circular platforms atop industrial towers while debris flies (official screenshots). The achievement — knock someone off by throwing a crate at them — confirms crates are both hazard and weapon. Stay mobile, watch for player-thrown crates on flat trajectories (machine debris arcs; grudges travel straight at you).
The Filter — don't miss
Launch press describes an assembly-line game: push the wrong objects off a conveyor before they reach the press — get it wrong, or get pushed in yourself. The achievement (win a round with 100% accuracy, 25.8%) makes it a precision test: every push judged, no wasted actions. A quarter of players have the perfect round, so the object-reading is learnable — slow down; the belt punishes panic-swiping, not deliberation.
Stable Footing — the floor is leaving
A grid floor over a pit sheds tiles as the round runs (official screenshots show whole sections gone mid-round). Survive the shrinkage: the achievement fires at 10 tiles remaining (14.0% — most rounds don't get that far with everyone alive). Centre-weighted positioning keeps escape routes open; edge tiles strand you.
Stable Footing mid-collapse: the marked tiles are all that's left between you and the pit. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
Wrong Way — the escalator gauntlet
Four escalator lanes run under arrow signs, with spikes waiting below (official screenshots). The achievement — take 50 correct steps in a row (7.6%) — says steps are individually judged against a correct sequence, streak-based. Read the arrows, move deliberately; the streak resets on error and the spikes don't.
Wrong Way: the arrows overhead are the rules, the spikes below are the appeal process. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
Table Manners — eat
Four players, plates of peas, cutlery, and at least one thing at the table that kills you (the official screenshot includes a face-down diner in a pool of blood). The official launch copy is "competitively eat peas in secrecy" — eating openly is what gets you shot — and the achievement (finish your meal in under 20 seconds, 6.1%) confirms speed is the win metric anyway. That's the whole tension: the rules want you sneaky, the clock wants you greedy, and 6.1% says almost nobody threads both.
Table Manners: clear your plate, mind the company. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
Inside Job — the syringe
Infect someone in under 3 seconds after getting the syringe (5.7%). A sabotage game: a syringe enters play, and whoever holds it wants to stick someone else — fast, before the table reacts. Pre-positioning next to your victim before grabbing the syringe is the obvious line the achievement rewards, and the day-one tactics thread adds the defensive half: corners are hard to check, so lurking in one keeps you off the syringe-holder's radar. Beyond that, launch sources don't document the full rules (who wins, how infection resolves) — TODO: we'll fill in the round structure once community documentation firms up.
Chisel Gauntlet — carve, submit
The official screenshot shows the whole game: a target shape, your cube, a hammer-and-chisel, a timer, and SUBMIT/RESET buttons under a sign reading "CARVE. SUBMIT." Match the shape by removing cube segments before time runs out; wrong submissions are how you exit the round early. Rounds escalate — the achievement (survive until the maximum number of cube segments are removed, 4.5%) means the late stages demand fast, exact carving from everyone still alive.
Chisel Gauntlet: the cube, the clock, and two buttons that decide everything. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
The minefield — sonar optional
The achievement (reach the end of the minefield without using the sonar, 2.7%) defines the game: cross a mined field, with a sonar tool as your legal cheat. Using sonar is the intended play; crossing clean is the flex. Nothing stops you watching where a braver friend stepped first (unverified, but this is a game about spending your friends).
Forklift Certified — crate logistics
Levers, crates, and a deposit area (official screenshots show the two-lever control station). The achievement — have 4 crates in your deposit area (1.9%) — makes it a hoarding race: move crates to your zone, and at 1.9%, four banked crates is rare enough that defense and theft are clearly part of the meta. Full rules (crate spawns, stealing mechanics) aren't publicly documented yet — TODO pending community confirmation.
Lethal Rebound — the hacksaws
Push 15 people into hacksaws (0.3%, cumulative) is all the official text gives us, and it's enough to know the shape: an arena game where shoving opponents into running hacksaws is both viable and rewarded. One launch-week complaint worth knowing (attributed to the moving saws; we read it as this game): the saw blades' kill zone runs larger than the visual — give them a wider berth than looks necessary. Round structure TODO until the community documents it.
The smoking game — don't choke
The official launch copy: "smoke cigarettes at lightning speed" — and launch press adds the rules: don't choke, and mind the hidden gun somewhere in the room. The achievement (smoke a total of 20 cigarettes, 0.2% — the game's rarest) is cumulative across sessions, making this the long-haul unlock. The official screenshots give it the best character close-up in the set.
The smoking game: inhale carefully. Somewhere in the room, per the press coverage, there is a gun. (Screenshot: Oro Interactive)
Winning the Session (Not Just the Round)
Three structural notes for new groups, from the launch-week community consensus:
- Sessions are short by design — and the minigame order is fixed. All 15 games ≈ 50-60 minutes, and they play in a set sequence rather than shuffling (players are already requesting a randomize option). Round counts are adjustable in the custom settings. The fixed order means a regular group can literally prepare for what's next — use that.
- Half the games reward hurting specific people. Crates, syringes, hacksaw shoves and stolen nooks are all targeted plays. Expect table politics; the official feature list promises "multiple devious ways of screwing your friends over" and delivers.
- Survival is a win condition. In several formats (Stable Footing, Chisel Gauntlet, Table Manners) you win by simply not dying longest — playing boring is legitimate, and the achievement rates show most players don't.
FAQ
Which minigames can you win with only 2 players? All of them run at any lobby size from 2-4 (the game has no minimum beyond two). The sabotage-heavy formats (Inside Job, Debris Platforms, Lethal Rebound) lose some chaos at two but stay functional, per early duo reports.
What's the hardest minigame? By achievement rates: the minefield without sonar (2.7%), banking 4 crates in Forklift Certified (1.9%), and Chisel Gauntlet's max stage (4.5%) are where the skill walls are. Table Manners' 20-second plate (6.1%) is the purest execution check.
Are there more minigames coming? Nothing announced. The confirmed roadmap item is local co-op in late August 2026; multiple launch reviews are asking for more games, and we'll update here if the developers commit.
Sources: the official Steam achievement list (each achievement names its minigame and win action — our roster source), the official Steam store page, launch announcements and screenshots (read directly for the visual descriptions above), launch-day press coverage (Rock Paper Shotgun and others, for the assembly-line, pea-eating and smoking game descriptions), and launch-week community threads — including the first day-one tactics thread (Duck Hunt and Spinebreaker advice) and balance-complaint threads (Firearm Factory shove behavior, saw hitboxes). Tactics labeled "inferred" derive from official text, not tested play; round structures we can't yet source are marked TODO. Written July 31, 2026, at the launch build.