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.

make shaved ice for animals at the festival! (there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)

A Pico-8 platformer about hiking around a mountain, made in three days for Celeste's third anniversary.

Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.

Gather resources and build a cosy little town!

A PICO-8 demake of the classic Konami arcade game Time Pilot (1982).

A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.

What's at the bottom of the pit? Could be anything! Could be everything! I have to find out!

For 2019 I ran two prototyping classes – one in Pico-8 for the undergraduates and a graduate version with no platform constraint (which generally means they work in Unity). So this year I hid the same prompt in two different interpretations of the same idea. I tuned the Pico-8 game for the youthful reflexes of the undergraduate class, but I did not count on the fact that none of them would have ever played a bullet-hell game, and as a result, only one of them was able to reach the end and find out what the assignment was. I instructed that person that they could keep it a secret if they wanted to.

Partake in what seems like a normal golf tournament. But watch out! Your competitors will stop at nothing to win.

Picross game with 12 easy (10x10) puzzles and 15 normal (15x15) puzzles.

This is a pico-8 port of Klax, mainly based on the Atari Lynx version, featuring: -100 levels -5 different backgrounds -warps -full klax combos and scoring system.

"From Rust To Ash" is roguelike auto battler where your items are your build. Fight, Loot, Scavenge. Arrange your items to benefit from each other, store items in your backpack for future synergies, scrap what you don't need to increase your health. Do all that you need to survive the encounters before you.

You are a blob bunny. Your goal? Touch every tile! Enjoy 60 bite sized puzzles across 5 different worlds in this casual puzzle game.

A turn-based asteroids / snake / roguelike for LD41. VYPERSPACE is an asteroids game, you shoot asteroids to break them into smaller chunks before you can destroy them. Sometimes there is ore inside. VYPERSPACE is a snake game, you eat ore to grow longer and need to avoid running into your own tail. VYPERSPACE is a roguelike, it is a keyboard-driven turn-based tile-grid game of delaying permadeath by emergent hazards that only move when you do.

A minimalist clicker-toy, where you press the button a million times.

In Knight of the Dead, the apocalypse is upon us. To run from the inevitable horde, one must consider their moves wisely, lest time, and the undead, catch up to them.

This is a small game, that asks the important question... Are you a pro enough gamer to defeat the God of rock paper scissors?

A noisy, pixellated vampire platformer set in the Nevada desert. When Ysabel, a vampire living in Reno, finds her brother dead with a strange crucifix-like structure attached to him, she finds herself compelled to take revenge on the humans that murdered him.

A clone of PakuPaku — built using PICO-8, with no external sprites or assets. It’s basically a one-button game: Press any arrow key to flip your direction. Eat pellets. Dodge the ghost — unless you're powered up. Fast, focused, and minimal. Just pixels, logic, and a bit of chaos. Made as a small learning project.

A "One Level Concept" Demake of Contra for PICO-8!

Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!