Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

22.10.2018

Explore tide pools and consult the cards as you pick which rumors about yourself to spread.

25.03.2021

In this game you play as a monkey who LOVES BANANAS! As all monkeys he's willing to solve outrageous puzzles to get some bananas.

08.03.2024

A roguelike action-platformer where you use upgradeable weapons to combo powerful enemies to their doom! Overcome tough fights, platforming challenges, puzzles, and more in your effort to free the titan who is incarcerated in the shifting prison's depths.

05.09.2017

This is a little experiment Bennett Foddy made in Pico-8 a while ago on a flight. It uses a control method they hadn’t seen before, where the movement is damped according to the rate of change in the acceleration (the ‘jerk’) which creates a strange oscillating movement.

19.07.2020

Gather resources and build a cosy little town!

27.10.2018

A short horror game developed for DarkTober Game Jam 2018 using the Pico-8 fantasy console. This game is not suited for children or those who are easily disturbed. The objective of this game is to find the old mirror, locate the dark path and get the orbs of light. This will require navigating 3 different worlds of increasing tension and horror.

08.05.2018

A two-player competitive pong rpg! In addition to playing pong, both players also gain XP/gold that can be used to level up, spawn units, make buildings, cast spells, etc.

24.02.2022

A low-res 4 key rhythm game inspired by games such as Stepmania & DDR.

27.01.2022

A collection of picross puzzles for PICO-8.

17.09.2021

A demake of Frostpunk for PICO-8. Welcome to the frigid wastes of Northern England. The world is cooling, London is in disarray, and there is no end in sight. You are charged with helping your group of refugees survive the cold. This task will be daunting and dangerous, but you are not without hope.

02.02.2023

Survive against hordes of relentless creatures by using your arcane powers to defeat them. Gather their essence and use it to increase your magical prowess! Use the beacons lure them and defeat them, but be warned, the more time passes, the stronger they get. Your mission? Survive until "It" arrives. When "it" arrives, destroy it.

10.12.2020

A PICO-8 demake of Trigonarium, a top down twin stick shooter with an everchanging map. Fight your way through an arena of 12 enemy types through 4 different gamemodes while the map changes shape around you.

20.03.2017

Will you enter the dungeon? Will you survive? Will you make fat stacks of $? Will you transform Gar's Den into Player's Den???

05.08.2015

Spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made.

30.06.2016

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

20.09.2016

A mod of the PICO-8 platformer Celeste (now known as Celeste Classic) with new levels and sliding block mechanics.

04.01.2021

In Super Mumtaz Bros. you join the titular plumbing brothers on their mission to rescue Princess Sana from... chickens?

16.11.2020

Artemis' Minesweeper is the a hardcore version of minesweeper, a mashup of minesweeper and a bullet hell shoot 'em up. It features Artemis of the Blue Fan-Game by VTuber Numachi Tamanegi.

24.03.2025

In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.

11.03.2023

CrossGunr: Infinite is a caravan shooter, and sequel to CrossGunr, developed for PICO-8.

31.10.2017

In Ghost in the Garden, play as a little cat witch and help the princess catch all the ghosts!

25.06.2016

R.I.P. Curl is a scientifically accurate surfing simulator featuring four different playable characters, four rounded corners, and many many many waves, sharks and bombs.

03.10.2020

Swim under the sea with this hungry cephalopod and meet the other marine dwellers in this straight forward arcade adventure.