Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.

13.09.2024

A fast-paced arcade-style treasure hunt set in a deep, mysterious pit full of shiny loot, deadly traps and vicious enemies. Take control of a goblin equipped with a magical satchel and grab as much treasure as you can before running out of light.

22.10.2023

A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.

14.04.2021

PiColumns is a port of the classic puzzle game Columns to Pico-8.

12.05.2024

Infinimoes is a space filling puzzle game (like tangrams) involving a variety of polyominoes and sometimes an infinitely repeating space.

02.07.2023

Kalikan is a vertically scrolling bullet hell 'shmup inspired by Dodonpachi- pushing the limits of ~virtual~ hardware . Control one of 3 1 ship(s) featuring two varied attack modes . Maintain your chain to compete for the highest scores.

13.12.2020

A gardening roguelike made in PICO-8 for PROCJAM 2020. The player takes the role of a gardener trapped within Father Time's watchtower, who must both tend the plants on each floor and escape the tower before illness claims their life.

22.12.2020

Journey from the Upper Atmosphere through futuristic dystopian cyberscapes, as a Rain Drop.

08.01.2023

Harvest fish daily to keep the baby penguins fed. Be careful, the fish won’t go without a fight! Move toward a fish while adjacent to it to attack it. Mola Molas (the large fish) take two hits to capture, while everything else only needs one. Carefully plan your route in this turn-based dungeon crawler to out-maneuver the fish- how many fish can you harvest?

07.08.2015

A retro futuristic anti-gravity racing game!

23.01.2018

A tiny metroidvania platformer where you play as a cube. You gain more and more abilities as you progress. There are multiple environments, some collectibles, and you can find a boss fight at the end.

24.05.2020

Mortal Cards challenges you with the ultimate card playing experience… On a secluded island, six elite fighters have gathered to test their deadly skills. Each competes with a deck of 15 cards, 5 cards each round, as they battle each other and finally, the 4-armed mutant warrior Goro.

26.09.2015

Cyclo 8 is a physics bike game, similar to the Trials series.

08.09.2020

Cute retro racer. Go loop and loop in this relaxing animal racing game!

28.08.2023

They say it started in a lab, but no one knows for sure. It doesn't matter anyway, you just need to survive another 10 minutes!

04.11.2022

What's at the bottom of the pit? Could be anything! Could be everything! I have to find out!

19.05.2016

This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.

04.07.2017

Picopolis is a SimCity demake / idle game in which you place roads, residental/industrial/commercial zoning, schools, police departments, hospitals, and various other things. The city will grow depending on housing, jobs, pollution, and crime ratings, and the bigger it gets the more money you make.

10.03.2023

In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.

30.06.2016

A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.

23.09.2024

Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!

29.10.2016

Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!

15.01.2020

A simple endless game that made during SGDQ 2020.

11.12.2020

Alpine Ascent is a little chill climbing platformer made for PICO-8. The green bar represents your stamina. When it reaches zero, you cannot climb or jump. You can replenish stamina by landing, or using a green stamina coin. Collecting gold coins will increase your maximum stamina. You will slip down when climbing on ice blocks. You cannot climb on obsidian blocks, and magma blocks will quickly drain your stamina while you climb them. For an extra challenge, try to get to the top of the mountain without letting your stamina reach zero, or collect all the coins!