Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

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

A Nuclear Throne demake for the PICO-8. You play as Suzie and Bob who are trapped in a merciless world and have to fight your way out!

A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.

Gather resources and build a cosy little town!

A one level PICO-8 demake of Rez for the Dreamcast by Morgan Quirk.

A turn-based asteroids / snake / roguelike for LD41. VYPERSPACE is an asteroids game, you shoot asteroids to break them into smaller chunks before you can destroy them. Sometimes there is ore inside. VYPERSPACE is a snake game, you eat ore to grow longer and need to avoid running into your own tail. VYPERSPACE is a roguelike, it is a keyboard-driven turn-based tile-grid game of delaying permadeath by emergent hazards that only move when you do.

A Top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup.

A PICO-8 demake of the classic Konami arcade game Time Pilot (1982).

A SHMUP-Survivor-Roguelike mash where you must dodge, shoot, and upgrade in order to beat the final boss. Created along the LazyDevs academy basic shmup tutorial with its own twists on the theme.

This is a pico-8 port of Klax, mainly based on the Atari Lynx version, featuring: -100 levels -5 different backgrounds -warps -full klax combos and scoring system.

The classic 16-bit-era action puzzle game returns again - enhanced and remastered. Pico de Pon brings favorite characters from across the PICO-8 library together for intense block-swapping battle.

In 2021, the last time I taught the class, I didn’t want to hide the homework in the games. Instead I used the games as ways of presenting ideas. I made several, but I like this one, a reinterpretation of the fortune-telling minigame from Ultima IV.

A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.

PicoCross is a nonogram puzzle game for the Pico-8 Fantasy Console.

Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.

try to get some rest, don't miss your stop

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

Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and uncover its secrets.

Cipher-8 is a brain-twisting minimalist arcade puzzler where you push numbers into a grid and manipulate them with randomly drawn special abilities. Blitz mode is all about frantic combo streaks. In puzzle mode you can analyze every move. Both modes scale infinitely in their difficulty.

Scale ancient castle walls and dash over deadly pits. Every leap, wall jump, and dash costs you precious health. Navigate 16 challenging levels, find the key, and reach the exit before your health runs out.

Open the ancient portal and defend the crystal from waves of mysterious enemies! As an apprentice witch your magic is quite random so you have to come up with some strategy to make the best out of your luck.

This is a small game, that asks the important question... Are you a pro enough gamer to defeat the God of rock paper scissors?