Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

13.07.2023

An action puzzle game with the concept of "recording and replaying movements."

31.10.2017

A difficult platform game, prove you are a Pumpking!

29.10.2023

Everyone's favorite Watermelon Game for PICO-8. Drop fruits and merge fruits that are alike.

12.09.2023

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.

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05.07.2025

15.09.2023

The Shadow King has invaded the castle belonging to the Knights of Valor and they need your help to get it back! Explore the massive castle in this metroidvania and help the fallen knights back to their former glory! Upgrade your moves and weapons along the way as you fight minions, defeat bosses, find secrets, and unravel what has happened.

23.01.2026

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.

13.05.2025

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.

25.01.2021

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

13.05.2020

An 8-bit homage to the original Superhot game created by three members of the Superhot Team.

13.12.2018

Hit the slopes, turn by turn! Play cards, clear gates, and don't crash!

04.03.2018

2018 7DRL You are an elven hunter on quest to defeat whatever beast has been terrorising the forest, armed with you bow and a couple of arrows you set out.

11.11.2021

Yep, just a normal day. Nothing weird is going to happen at all.

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28.02.2026

Put a golf ball in your vagina and kegel it out! Neo Pussy Masters is a golfing game about transfemininity. Only on the PICO-8!

18.04.2018

An aquatic action game. Swim sword first into the deep to destroy the evil at the heart of the ocean.

02.09.2018

A Metroidvania without an interconnected world or character upgrades.

01.11.2020

A shoot’em up game with bite-size levels.

17.07.2022

Move the dice to destroy all other dice in every level if your value is higher.

14.12.2021

A browser based holiday themed bowling game.

11.10.2019

Reach the exit avoiding enemies chasing you in turn based system!

26.10.2020

A PICO-8 demake of Street Fighter II.

23.11.2024

Use your solitaire skills to assemble powerful combos and defeat the dungeon's monsters. Grab treasure and spend it to build a set of powerful, synergistic abilities to help you. Manage both your own resources and the demon's patience to hopefully survive the ordeal.

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.