Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
An open-world rpg for Pico-8, where you can catch, train, and battle with over 100 varieties of monsters! Gameplay is performed by navigating the overworld until you encounter either a wild Eidolon or an opposing trainer, which transitions the game to battle mode. Battle mode uses turn-based mechanics across a grid to allow you to fight - until all foes are defeated!
What's at the bottom of the pit? Could be anything! Could be everything! I have to find out!
Explore rooms in the ever-expanding deimos hotel.
A mod of the PICO-8 platformer Celeste (now known as Celeste Classic) with new levels and sliding block mechanics.
Sybil's Tail is a tiny, 15-30 minute long platformer made for PICO-8. Run, jump, slide, grab, and toss your way through 6 bite-sized areas as you search for a mysterious meteorite that fell nearby!
Blood of Vladula Jr. is a 2D platformer inspired by the platformers on the Nintendo Game Boy system. Jump, run, bonk monsters on the head, and turn into a bat, through 8 different levels, including a final boss stage. Help Count Vladula jr. regain the respect of the monster community and defeat his arch-nemesis.
Hug those monster until They become your friend.
An action-adventure platformer where you play as a human that must get to the safety of the underground bunker. There are multiple endings depending on the path you take.
The Land of Miskatonia needs a hero to save it from the evil Faxon and its minions. Can you be that hero? Explore Miskatonia and its settlements, talk to its residents, build up your skills, and finally challenge Faxon in its secret lair. Minima is an adventure RPG in the style of the older Ultima games (Ultima I, Ultima II, Ultima III, Ultima IV, & Ultima V) as played on the Commodore 64 and 128 computers. Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. It also features graphics, sound effects, and music that should help one recollect those classics. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.
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!
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.
A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.
Astra is the smallest star in Constellation Station. Tired of being picked on, she sets off an adventure to build a new constellation of her own! Run, jump, slide, and float across the galaxy while collecting stardust to build your new home in this retro-inspired Pico-8 platformer.
A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.
This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.
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.
In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.
A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.
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.
Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!
Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!
This is a small game, that asks the important question... Are you a pro enough gamer to defeat the God of rock paper scissors?