Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

31.12.2022

A demake of Japan's best selling action game Thexder in PICO-8.

30.06.2016

A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.

01.10.2021

A PICO-8 port of Irem’s R-Type, featuring the 4 stages in a 32kb cart! (Similar to the PC-Engine port, with 4 in a 256kb hu-card.)

05.09.2017

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.

19.07.2020

Gather resources and build a cosy little town!

27.10.2018

A short horror game developed for DarkTober Game Jam 2018 using the Pico-8 fantasy console. This game is not suited for children or those who are easily disturbed. The objective of this game is to find the old mirror, locate the dark path and get the orbs of light. This will require navigating 3 different worlds of increasing tension and horror.

08.05.2018

A two-player competitive pong rpg! In addition to playing pong, both players also gain XP/gold that can be used to level up, spawn units, make buildings, cast spells, etc.

27.01.2022

A collection of picross puzzles for PICO-8.

17.09.2021

A demake of Frostpunk for PICO-8. Welcome to the frigid wastes of Northern England. The world is cooling, London is in disarray, and there is no end in sight. You are charged with helping your group of refugees survive the cold. This task will be daunting and dangerous, but you are not without hope.

02.02.2023

Survive against hordes of relentless creatures by using your arcane powers to defeat them. Gather their essence and use it to increase your magical prowess! Use the beacons lure them and defeat them, but be warned, the more time passes, the stronger they get. Your mission? Survive until "It" arrives. When "it" arrives, destroy it.

10.12.2020

A PICO-8 demake of Trigonarium, a top down twin stick shooter with an everchanging map. Fight your way through an arena of 12 enemy types through 4 different gamemodes while the map changes shape around you.

20.03.2017

Will you enter the dungeon? Will you survive? Will you make fat stacks of $? Will you transform Gar's Den into Player's Den???

25.03.2021

In this game you play as a monkey who LOVES BANANAS! As all monkeys he's willing to solve outrageous puzzles to get some bananas.

12.11.2020

Pushamo is an arcade push-em-up that challenges you to organize different shapes into squares to clear blocks and earn points! It's no easy task, though - as you push on, shapes will come faster and more frequently until you find yourself as overwhelmed as you are engrossed.

04.01.2021

In Super Mumtaz Bros. you join the titular plumbing brothers on their mission to rescue Princess Sana from... chickens?

16.11.2020

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.

24.03.2025

In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.

11.03.2023

CrossGunr: Infinite is a caravan shooter, and sequel to CrossGunr, developed for PICO-8.

31.10.2017

In Ghost in the Garden, play as a little cat witch and help the princess catch all the ghosts!

25.06.2016

R.I.P. Curl is a scientifically accurate surfing simulator featuring four different playable characters, four rounded corners, and many many many waves, sharks and bombs.

16.12.2022

A light co-op turn-based RPG. Take control of two knights and try to reach the end of the perilous snowy mountain paths​ by avoiding enemy attacks and powering-up your characters.

27.08.2022

Ricochet around an alien world in this Pico-8 pinball table.

11.03.2018

A two-player juggle fiesta!