Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Tutankham is a combination of the maze, action and shoot 'em up genres. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all that kill the player on contact. The explorer can fight back by firing lasers at the creatures, but he can only cover the left and right directions. The player is also endowed with a single screen-clearing "flash bomb" per level or life. Finally, each level has warp zones that teleport the player around the level, which enemies cannot use. To progress, the player collects keys open locked doors throughout the levels, searching for the large exit door. Optional treasures can be picked-up for bonus points. Each level has a timer; when it reaches zero the explorer can no longer fire lasers, and once a level is cleared the remaining time is converted to bonus points.
Time Thief is an action adventure game where leaving your village makes the clock tick. Manage your time to stay alive, stealing seconds from creatures around its overworld with you sword.
"In Dino Sort, there are, uh, dinosaurs, and, well, you have to, you know, sort them out." A puzzle game about arranging dinosaurs around a grid. Each dinosaur has a specific ruleset that must be followed.
Explore a research station in this short platformer.
Help Atom Girl defeat waves of enemies trying to stop her as she races through space. Use her ability to change into a ship and back to blast her foes into stardust.
Experience a nostalgic throwback with this Pico-8 demake of the classic iOS game Birds and Saws. Dive into the retro charm and challenge yourself as you guide a bird, skillfully avoiding menacing circular saws to rack up high scores.
Help Willo save the graveyard from pesky skelliwags in this stealthy spook-em-up
Inspired by the true-life events of my good friend Ryan. My first game ever; I am not a programmer and taught myself what I could of PICO-8, making this whole thing up as I went along, so I'm sure the code is very inefficient and a mess, sorry! It's a simple game and is mostly a lifetime of inside jokes, but to the general public: I hope you enjoy it anyway!
Help Old Ryan travel back to the past in this challenging puzzle game!
Massive open world pirate adventures!
The Networked Empathy Bank (tm) is a space where they upload and de-fragment the world's jumbled consciousness. Remna-Bot-2k finds and collates remnants and fragments of memory from across TNEBs archive zones, recreating person specific empathy archives. Its subject today is AG1970TQQ+. What does AG1970TQQ+ have to say about the different spaces and communities they occupy in their life and why are other Remna-bots trying to subvert this project?
This is a one button dueling game. Hold to run, let go before passing to attack. Whoever hits hardest wins.
A bread-and-butter platformer where Bread Man must save his home from Dr. Yogurt. Bread Man can collect sticks of butter and then shoot them out to defeat enemies or boost through the air!
To a Starling is an indie fantasy platformer. Use your teleportation abilities to whirl through the rocky wastes and to find brighter stars.
Fly your Arwing to victory in this PICO-8 demake of Star Fox. Features 3 levels: Cornerea, Venom and Fortuna.
Fight your way through up to nine levels, firing and collecting your projectile. Can you find all three endings? Defeat the enemies, seal the breach, repeat!
A simple shmup reminiscent of the arcade era. Your mission is to fly into enemy space and destroy the aliens that pose a threat to all life on Earth!
De-make of "No Man's Sky"... in PICO-8
A Physics Puzzler where you build gooey structures to reach pneumatic pipes.
A demake of Donkey Kong in PICO-8 starring Minio and Dinky Kong.
Survive being chased by a rolling snowball with a crafty penguin. Pickup, combine, and throw objects to delay the snowball’s inevitable descent! Throwing objects at the snowball chips away at its continually growing volume, while throwing them at other objects can craft tools to better suit your survival.
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!
Take off and explore the mountains and lakes of Picotopia! A flight simulator made for PICO-8. Flight model should be "somewhat realistic" in that it models thrust, lift, drag and weight--Of course all the numbers are made up, and things are grossly simplified.