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.
In Cave of Cards, you clear dungeons by making poker hands.
Artemis' Minesweeper is the a hardcore version of minesweeper, a mashup of minesweeper and a bullet hell shoot 'em up. It features Artemis of the Blue Fan-Game by VTuber Numachi Tamanegi.
A puzzle PICO-8 game by benjamin_soule in which the player must group blocks of the same pattern and/or color and clear the screen.
This game is a demake of and an homage to Hollow Knight, a game by Team Cherry. Made for the 2018 Demake Jam. Explore an insect underworld, find the six charms and beat all the bosses.
Play Moss Moss to moss the world and find secrets.
A short atmospheric platformer with metroidvania elements made in 10 days as a game jam entry for RNDGAME 2020.
The door is locked. You'll have to explore a dangerous dungeon full of traps and monsters and find 6 lost gems to open the door and Get Out!
Enter the catacombs of the Cantina of Eight (that's the name of the community) and search for the Achtefakt! While you're at it save the Cantina residents who have been kidnapped by the zoo (which doesn't actually exist).
Scale ancient castle walls and dash over deadly pits. Every leap, wall jump, and dash costs you precious health. Navigate 16 challenging levels, find the key, and reach the exit before your health runs out.
Defeat the boss! Melt his heart... with your sword!
Mess with the Flock, you get the Glock. An Owl-some Roguelike Twin-Stick Shooter.
Foreverred is a mod of Celeste Classic developed in over a year. Starting as an update to the developer's first mod, Everred, it grew into a full sequel, and eventually into the biggest CELESTE Classic mod ever released (and possibly one of the biggest PICO-8 projects). The mod is over three times the size of the original game, and features brand new levels, mechanics, sprites, and music.
This is a little experiment Bennett Foddy made in Pico-8 a while ago on a flight. It uses a control method they hadn’t seen before, where the movement is damped according to the rate of change in the acceleration (the ‘jerk’) which creates a strange oscillating movement.
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!
Explore a mysterious and exciting dungeon filled with exciting mysteries without ever leaving the same room! Why would you change rooms when clearly this one has all the danger and excitement and danger that one could possibly need?!
Speedcat is a tiny 2D platformer where you play as a cat trying to pick up all 32 Speedcoins! Run, jump, and use the environment to navigate your way through the map as quickly as possible. Developed on PICO-8 by Fletch, the game is delightfully small and easy to pick up, with an estimated completion time in under an hour.
This is a series of works that came out of a residency carried out in early 2018 in Tokyo, with the Creator Ikusei project, which is supported by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. I adopted research techniques from ethnography and history, such as open-ended interviews and participant observation, and developed a method of representing the results of this research in a playful and interactive form that draws heavily from familiar interaction design patterns such as the tamagotchi-style virtual pet and role-playing game multiple-choice dialogue systems.
The battle for Eternia is in your hands! A Masters of the Universe themed Barbarian remake for Pico-8. Side with He-Man and his allies or Skeletor and his minions in this new take on the classic Barbarian sword fighting game. Battle 8 levels against increasingly difficult foes or play against a friend. You have the power!
A remake of the first Five Nights At Freddy's game in PICO-8.
Be a Space Spelunker!
Slide, spin and snap to solve puzzles with your claw.