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.
The 2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar is here! Busy little devs elves have been hard at work these past couple of months crafting you some holiday cheer. Please enjoy a new game, toy, or demo each day.
In Mole Mole, you have to blow stuff up and take a nap.
A port of Another World game engine & assets to PICO-8.
A fan-made, fun-sized version of Samurai GUNN 2.
Welcome To BulletHeck is a small rougelike game focused on randomized items and conserving energy. Energy is consumed by both shooting and sprinting and running out will cause the player to slow down for a short time. New guns and items can be discovered as you progress as well as stat upgrades that can be bought from shops. The only objective is to reach floor 10 and fight the boss.
Penny the Pumpkin: Directors Cut takes you on a delightful platforming open-world metroidvania with light puzzles to solve. Guide Penny, our lovable pumpkin, as she collects 18 precious coins! Your progress is saved every time she grabs a coin or enters a new area.
Pico Dino is a reimagination of Google Chrome's offline dinosaur game made in PICO-8.
This is a PICO-8 port of Stealthscape, a top-down momentum based speed game that has you pitted against a wide variety of enemies and obstacles while you try to quickly make your way to the portal at the end of each stage.
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map! There is no time constraint, no danger, there's no gameover. Instead, this game proposes a calming experience of exploration and encounters. You can just stop playing when you feel satisfied. A play session will usually last 15 to 30 minutes.
Pilot an adorable, customizable biplane! Explore the world! Deliver mail from the skies!
Use your solitaire skills to assemble sweet combos and defeat the dungeon's monsters. Grab treasure and spend it on powerful, synergistic abilities. Manage both your own resources and the demon's patience to hopefully survive the ordeal.
A fast-paced arcade-style treasure hunt set in a deep, mysterious pit full of shiny loot, deadly traps and vicious enemies. Take control of a goblin equipped with a magical satchel and grab as much treasure as you can before running out of light.
To a Starling is an indie fantasy platformer. Use your teleportation abilities to whirl through the rocky wastes and to find brighter stars.
A Physics Puzzler where you build gooey structures to reach pneumatic pipes.
The Earth is under attack from the invading alien war machine! Take control of the Solar Blaster fighter ship and strike back! An action packed space shooter where you’ve got 2 minutes to get the high score.
A demake of Donkey Kong in PICO-8 starring Minio and Dinky Kong.
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.
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?
This is a one button dueling game. Hold to run, let go before passing to attack. Whoever hits hardest wins.
The Land of Miskatonia needs a hero to save it from the evil Faxon and its minions. Can you be that hero? Explore Miskatonia and its settlements, talk to its residents, build up your skills, and finally challenge Faxon in its secret lair. Minima is an adventure RPG in the style of the older Ultima games (Ultima I, Ultima II, Ultima III, Ultima IV, & Ultima V) as played on the Commodore 64 and 128 computers. Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. It also features graphics, sound effects, and music that should help one recollect those classics. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.