Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

01.09.2019

VVVVV but in all directions

16.02.2024

Driftmania is an arcade time trial racing game. Your goal is to get the fastest possible time on each of the 15 challenging tracks

01.05.2020

Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.

05.11.2019

Defeat the boss! Melt his heart... with your sword!

28.10.2021

A game in which one is tasked to control a body.

11.12.2020

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!

17.06.2019

Slimey, Jump! Is a tiny one-button platformer game with 28 levels and 4 bosses. It's meant to be a simple but challenging game that everyone can enjoy, regardless of their skill level!

31.10.2025

In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.

14.03.2021

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.

09.01.2021

An explosive homage to the old-time multiplayer classic made with PICO-8! In this game, your goal is to drop bombs on the battlefield to eliminate all other players in time and be the last manbomber standing. The game can be played with up to 4 players battling each other. While in the 2-player mode, both players can use the same keyboard to control their manbomber, a controller for each player is required for all other modes. Any Controller which can be connected to your device will do!

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.

07.04.2020

The classic 16-bit-era action puzzle game returns again - enhanced and remastered. Pico de Pon brings favorite characters from across the PICO-8 library together for intense block-swapping battle.

31.12.2021

In 2021, the last time I taught the class, I didn’t want to hide the homework in the games. Instead I used the games as ways of presenting ideas. I made several, but I like this one, a reinterpretation of the fortune-telling minigame from Ultima IV.

19.02.2022

Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!

16.07.2016

Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.

01.05.2022

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.

30.04.2015

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

25.07.2017

Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.

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05.07.2025

27.03.2023

Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through various short levels, and challenge yourself to keep up the combo's.

21.05.2020

When hordes of Youkai threaten the world, the Tanukis send a messenger to choose human girls to receive magical powers to defend humanity. They are known as SAKURA STARS. This is a horizontal shmup made on Pico-8, a retro fantasy console with purposeful limitations to simulate an 8-bit era console.

10.05.2024

Select numbers that add to ten, to remove them from the board. How high can you score in just 2 minutes?

24.08.2018

Enter the caves and try to find as much gold as you can before you perish to the dangers of the depth. Use your trusty whip in combination with bombs, ropes, and whatever you scavenge to get as far as you can.