Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

20.07.2021

Snacks and spikes are falling from the sky! You, Aspen, must run around dodging the falling spike balls and scoffing the delectable foodstuffs.

29.11.2021

A precision puzzle-platformer aimed at speedrunners that turns one of the oldest videogame tropes on its head. In other games, dying is bad, and your remaining lives are just chances to try again... right? No, not on Harold's Bad Day. Finish as quickly as possible, while trying to save as many Harolds as you can for a perfect run.

30.01.2021

Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land. Transport passengers to their destination. Watch the world go by. Listen to chilled out chiptune music.

02.07.2023

Kalikan is a vertically scrolling bullet hell 'shmup inspired by Dodonpachi- pushing the limits of ~virtual~ hardware . Control one of 3 1 ship(s) featuring two varied attack modes . Maintain your chain to compete for the highest scores.

13.12.2020

A gardening roguelike made in PICO-8 for PROCJAM 2020. The player takes the role of a gardener trapped within Father Time's watchtower, who must both tend the plants on each floor and escape the tower before illness claims their life.

22.12.2020

Journey from the Upper Atmosphere through futuristic dystopian cyberscapes, as a Rain Drop.

15.03.2025

In Bandit Accountancy, you sort gems using a gamepad or the arrow keys.

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30.07.2025

Play solo or together in a mashup of tennis, volleyball, squash, and wallball where the only rule is: two bounces on one side is a point for the other.

12.03.2022

Take off and explore the mountains and lakes of Picotopia! A flight simulator made for PICO-8. Flight model should be "somewhat realistic" in that it models thrust, lift, drag and weight--Of course all the numbers are made up, and things are grossly simplified.

02.10.2020

Help Willo save the graveyard from pesky skelliwags in this stealthy spook-em-up

03.05.2021

Fight your way through up to nine levels, firing and collecting your projectile. Can you find all three endings? Defeat the enemies, seal the breach, repeat!

05.09.2022

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!

24.08.2018

De-make of "No Man's Sky"... in PICO-8

15.09.2019

PICO-8 port of the iconic SEGA title

08.07.2018

Brutal Pico Race futurist racing game on Pico8 by Yourykiki - The Lurking Engine

27.05.2016

Combo Pool is a game made using PICO-8, and the winning entry to p8jam2. It's a game where you throw colored marbles against each other. If two marbles of the same color make contact, they merge and upgrade to the next color. Your lifebar diminish with the number of balls on the field. If you lifebar is empty, you enter in a sudden death mode, and your last ball must save you by removing some balls.

09.07.2017

Inspired by the true-life events of my good friend Ryan. My first game ever; I am not a programmer and taught myself what I could of PICO-8, making this whole thing up as I went along, so I'm sure the code is very inefficient and a mess, sorry! It's a simple game and is mostly a lifetime of inside jokes, but to the general public: I hope you enjoy it anyway!

18.02.2018

Help Old Ryan travel back to the past in this challenging puzzle game!

07.09.2019

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?

10.08.2016

This is a one button dueling game. Hold to run, let go before passing to attack. Whoever hits hardest wins.

05.02.2021

Wander the Cosmos is a space exploration game in which you, the pilot of a spacecraft called The Discovery, have been sent on a mission by the Galactic Federation to gather data on any & all celestial objects you come across during your travels.

25.12.2021

You are one big monster with an appetite for destruction. This turn-based rogue-like PICO-8 game is all about that stomping, smashing, grabbing, and chomping your way through a procedurally generated hapless city and its tiny citizens.

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.