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.
A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.
Mars base, Union Aerospace Corporation experiments opened a portal to Hell. You appear to be the last human, fight your way out! Beaming up the virtual feed from Mars takes about 20s, be patient while loading the battle simulator soldier. If experiencing slowdowns, prefer desktop browser or beefy mobile.
A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.
A tiny challenging arcade shoot’em up where you shoot down quirky aliens to save your planet. Evade bullets, shoot enemies, get upgrades, survive through challenging waves to defeat the final boss, "The Monke".
What do an excitable asexual pirate, a cultured genderqueer vampire, and a lesbian bird who may be at an important decision point in her life all have in common? They're all your friends, and they're all counting on you to make an absolute banger of a flag for them! In Flags for Friends, you play as a queer artist in a post-scarcity era and make custom pride flags for -- wait for it -- friends!
A rabbit and carrot puzzle-platformer! Stretch your ears to grab the carrots!
Enjoy a sunny day at the golf course. Improve your putting skills and take the cart for a spin.
Stay alive in the arctic while climate change destroys your habitat! Eat fish to keep your hunger down or you will starve! Stay away from trash and don't fall into the water.
Survive being chased by a rolling snowball with a crafty penguin. Pickup, combine, and throw objects to delay the snowball’s inevitable descent! Throwing objects at the snowball chips away at its continually growing volume, while throwing them at other objects can craft tools to better suit your survival.
Steps is a small Minit-like game where instead of dying from time, you die after a certain amount of steps. Explore the cursed island, solve puzzles, and find the hidden coins. Try to run away from the island by finding the Icarus wings as it is the only way to escape the cursed island.
A simple Marble Madness clone with three levels.
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map!
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.
A dungeon-crawler game built around a deck of 54 cards. This is a demake of Donsol by John Eternal and Hundred Rabbits in PICO-8.
Pico World Race is a fast-paced racing game for PICO-8. Get in your supercar and take a trip around the world, testing your driving skills on challenging circuits against a host of opponents.
A port of Another World game engine & assets to PICO-8.
Help Mr. Swop find stars by swapping tiles around.
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.
Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.
A Doukutsu Demake, made in Pico8 by us at DoubtfulGames.
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.
Infinimoes is a space filling puzzle game (like tangrams) involving a variety of polyominoes and sometimes an infinitely repeating space.