Machine Party
Fair · Multiplayer · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.39. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $7.10/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon RX 6500 XT / Nvidia 1660, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Machine Party is a collection of violent party games where failure is lethal. Gather your friends and endure high stakes situations to prove your life is worth more than theirs. Survival is unlikely.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a mid-size player base.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $6.39. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 56 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. Today's $6.39 at 20 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. s.p.l.i.t ($2.99, scores 73) outscores it, and so does Buckshot Roulette ($2.99, scores 89). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 78 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 14 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 78 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 53 of 439 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 2,509 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 62 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
58% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 0.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Machine Party scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a mid-size player base. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4108000/machine-partyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 23.
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