Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.
Yep, just a normal day. Nothing weird is going to happen at all.
Porklike is a classic, turn-based Roguelike with minimalist lo-fi aesthetic. Enter the tower of Wurstlord. Can you make it to the top and steal his legendary Kielbasa? 9 floors of dangerous traps and enemies await you. Only if you move carefully and master your character's abilities will you become the champion of Porklike.
Steve Johanson has disappeared and his girlfriend Sally Franklin has hired your detective agency to locate him. Even before you get on the scene there are signs that maybe this isn't just a simple missing persons case. Can you crack it? Explore Anteform Valley and its settlements, talk to its residents, search desks and files, and build up your skills as you collect clues to figure out what really happened to Steve and maybe even prevent it from happening again. Anteform is a horror / sci-fi detective story 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 (although thematically it fits in better with the Worlds of Ultima games). Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.
These busy birds will eat almost anything that falls into their gullet -- what will you feed them? They have their preferences, but people food beats bird food any day of the week! A difficult, chaotic arcade game with local multiplayer support!
A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.
It's your virtual pet Blobby's adventure! Guide him through the virtual world until he reaches the castle in the sky. Defeat the castle boss to win the game. Collect hearts to refill your health.
This is 2018’s assignment, a diabolical puzzle. You’re a monk who has forgotten where his cell is in the monastery, and who must walk the labyrinth in order to remember it. If you can find his room, you’ll find out what the assignment prompt is. I was a bit worried the students would be unable to find the prompt hidden in this one, but about half of them got there eventually. (The rest were expelled from the university.) 2018’s class was 100% Pico-8 so it seemed appropriate that the prompt game should be in Pico-8 too. Pico-8 is so great for prototyping — as a case in point, it builds to a single JS and HTML file which loads quite happily in the browser from a local file, so you don’t get annoying permissions or crossdomain problems.
Try to get the frogs to the top of the screen to fed, by playing cards
try to get some rest, don't miss your stop
Grab all 30 time pieces in this short platformer, based on the game A Hat in Time!
Reach the finish if you can, there's a lot of gold before it!
2018 7DRL You are an elven hunter on quest to defeat whatever beast has been terrorising the forest, armed with you bow and a couple of arrows you set out.
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.
An aquatic action game. Swim sword first into the deep to destroy the evil at the heart of the ocean.
A Metroidvania without an interconnected world or character upgrades.
A shoot’em up game with bite-size levels.
Move the dice to destroy all other dice in every level if your value is higher.
You are a worm. Worms love eating fruit, even though it makes them poop. But this is a good thing: poop becomes flowers and flowers bring much joy to the world. Eat fruit, avoid poop, flowers increase the score multiplier, eating flowers makes the multiplier smaller.
Ever wonder what Devil May Cry would be like if the entire game was in the air? Climb as high as you can while making sure to be stylish! Rack up kills and altitude while avoiding falling to your death!
A simple tennis game for PICO-8. Play against AI or with up to 4 players in local multiplayer.
You’re a sky-island delivery worker delivering mail to all the nearby islands. Everything runs smoothly until the letters suddenly aren’t being delivered. Find all of the letters and deliver them to their recipients. Maybe they’ll give you something as a thank you.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.