MACH//BREAK

Glide · Burn · Break the line.

Download for Windows

One small program, MachbreakLauncher.exe. It installs the game and keeps it current for as long as MACHBREAK exists.

Download MachbreakLauncher.zip

A few MB, Windows 10/11. The same launcher serves both channels.

Unzip it and run it once. It copies itself to your own folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Machbreak), puts a MACHBREAK shortcut on your desktop, fetches the game and lights up PLAY. Use the shortcut from then on.

Windows may say "Windows protected your PC": More info, then Run anyway. The build is unsigned, that is all.

First time? How to join MACHBREAK (PDF): the two-page walkthrough, with the controls.

What it does

Installs once, to your folder. No admin rights, no installer wizard, nothing in Program Files.
Keeps the game updated. Every start checks for the build the server runs and fetches it before the game opens. It keeps itself current the same way: you never download anything from this page again.
Needs no account. Pick a name in the launcher; that is what the others see. Nothing to register, nothing to remember.
Starts offline too. The installed build runs when the host is unreachable; it just cannot update.
Two channels, one launcher. Live and PTR install side by side; switch in the launcher, and nothing is re-downloaded when you switch back.

Live

Live is what everyone plays: the stable build, on MACHBREAK-Public. The launcher fetches it on its own.

Build b260907-876b7157, published 2026-09-07 17:29 UTC.

PTR

PTR is the test build; Live is what everyone plays. The PTR runs the build the owner is testing, a step ahead of Live, on its own server (MACHBREAK-PTR); it can break, and it moves without notice. To try it, switch the channel in the launcher (CHANNEL: LIVE becomes CHANNEL: PTR): it installs the PTR build beside the Live one and joins MACHBREAK-PTR on Play. The PTR page.

Build: see the PTR page.

News · Live

2026-09-05The flag, fixed and lit
The flag waypoint was off since the last update: fixed, at the stand and on the carrier, on every map. Each flag now stands under a light column in its colour, seen from across the map; a carrier carries it with them; a dropped flag pulses down its return with the seconds on the marker. Nothing about the flags is a secret any more.
2026-09-05The scoreboard, a new launcher, your own name
Hold Tab: both teams, scores and flag state, points from caps, returns, kills, repairs and deployments, your row lit; the end of a match shows the winner and the MVP. Your launcher updates itself to 1.1.0: pick the name the others see, and switch between Live and PTR in it. A dead enemy's unused medkit is yours from their pile, and every hit has its own sound.
2026-09-05Bases that hold, hits you can hear, maps that rotate
Base walls are solid now. Enemies read red and teammates blue from 40 m with a health bar, every sight shows the target's health, hits and kills have a marker and a sound, damage numbers are in (menu: Damage numbers), a dead enemy's unused medkit is yours from their pile, and after every match the server moves to the next map. Your launcher updates you.

The launcher shows this same feed for the channel it is on.

What you need

Windows: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
Graphics: A GPU with Vulkan: any card from the last eight years. Without one the game falls back to the Compatibility renderer (OpenGL 3.3): plainer, still plays.
Disk: About 300 MB for the launcher and the game. A second channel adds its own copy.
Network: An internet connection to install and update; the installed build also starts offline. If the Windows firewall asks, Allow access.
Input: A mouse. It is a fast shooter.

Something broke?

In the launcher, press SEND LOGS (the small text in its footer). It packs the last game logs into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Machbreak\logs\send-to-chris.zip and opens that folder. After a crash the launcher packs it on its own and says so at the next start.
Send that zip to Chris, the way he sent you this link, with a line on what you were doing when it went wrong.
Nothing is uploaded by itself: the zip is yours until you attach it.

For the careful

Hashes of what this page serves, and the game zip on its own for anyone who would rather not run the launcher (unzip anywhere; the launcher is still the way to stay current).

Game: Machbreak-windows.zip (89 MB) · sha256 73c82eb0917602238204cffd29f1d25682453e78f99070cc930c425658370ddc (.sha256)
Launcher: MachbreakLauncher.exe 1.1.0 · sha256 e853415c5cea57ddd6cc868b92612a26096b29f7061ff18e6cec7e5814551ad2 (.sha256)
Manifest: latest.json: what the launcher reads (build, zip, size, hashes).
PTR: ptr/Machbreak-windows.zip · ptr/latest.json · the PTR page