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.
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.
Cherry Bomb is a basic arcade Shoot 'em up game (Shmup) reminiscent of Space Invaders or Galaga. Pilot your red spaceship to blast your way through 9 waves of attacking aliens.
Enter the catacombs of the Cantina of Eight (that's the name of the community) and search for the Achtefakt! While you're at it save the Cantina residents who have been kidnapped by the zoo (which doesn't actually exist).
CrossGunr: Infinite is a caravan shooter, and sequel to CrossGunr, developed for PICO-8.
An homage to Katamari Damacy for Pico8 in 1021 bytes for the #PICO1k jam. Collect enough things with your Katamari ball to reach 64cm as fast as possible to please the King of all Cosmos.
In Bandit Accountancy, you sort gems using a gamepad or the arrow keys.
Help Willo save the graveyard from pesky skelliwags in this stealthy spook-em-up
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.
Train Journey is a 16-cartridge PICO-8 game (the maximum size) about a mysterious train to which the player is seemingly bound. Travel between stops, meet unique characters, and learn their stories. Can you free yourself and return home? Or will you ride the train forever...?
In Sebastian's Quest, you have to shove gems and find the cheese.
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!
Harvest fish daily to keep the baby penguins fed. Be careful, the fish won’t go without a fight! Move toward a fish while adjacent to it to attack it. Mola Molas (the large fish) take two hits to capture, while everything else only needs one. Carefully plan your route in this turn-based dungeon crawler to out-maneuver the fish- how many fish can you harvest?
Pixel Session Vol.1 is a collection of 5 extra-polished eye-candy arcadey jam-style games, exploring experimental and minimalist gameplay and graphics! The Games GET DEEP INTO DESCENT GET LIGHTNING IN LIGHTNER GET WATCHED BY B1G BR0TH3R GET CLONES IN CHARGING PANIC GET BURSTING WITH CHROMA CANNON Each game is based on one simple but special gameplay mechanic and built around this mechanic. With a focus on visual feedback, the five games are fine examples of colorful video game juiciness. The results are five eye-candy arcadey games that will have you say "ok just one more time" a lot of times.
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.
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!
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 top-down, fast-paced shooter where you pilot a plane and use it to dogfight against those that seek to bring you down. Easy to understand but hard to master, the balance of risk-reward for score maximization while trying to not get overwhelmed is what this game is about! Try to reach to the highest score!
A juicy remake of Breakout/Arkanoid with 15 levels and a high-score list.