Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

01.01.1982

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.

29.11.2019

Collect power-ups as you clear out the infested base in this action platformer.

29.01.2024

Guide the twin cats to their childhood friend Mii-chan. A two-player cooperative game created in PICO-8.

02.09.2018

You play as a bird with a baseball cap on a search to find a new floating island after their first one crumbles. Instead of jumping off platforms, you flap your wings in mid air to propel yourself in the direction you're aiming.

19.02.2022

Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!

09.07.2017

Inspired by the true-life events of my good friend Ryan. My first game ever; I am not a programmer and taught myself what I could of PICO-8, making this whole thing up as I went along, so I'm sure the code is very inefficient and a mess, sorry! It's a simple game and is mostly a lifetime of inside jokes, but to the general public: I hope you enjoy it anyway!

15.06.2024

Move a worm to carve the object across 17 thrilling levels!!

18.02.2018

Help Old Ryan travel back to the past in this challenging puzzle game!

13.07.2018

Massive open world pirate adventures!

07.09.2019

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?

10.08.2016

This is a one button dueling game. Hold to run, let go before passing to attack. Whoever hits hardest wins.

09.08.2022

A top-down, fast-paced shooter where you pilot a plane and use it to dogfight against those that seek to bring you down. Easy to understand but hard to master, the balance of risk-reward for score maximization while trying to not get overwhelmed is what this game is about! Try to reach to the highest score!

06.07.2018

A juicy remake of Breakout/Arkanoid with 15 levels and a high-score list.

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.

02.11.2017

Following the events of 2016's genre-defining "Ryan Ward's Lunch-Out!!", this sequel doubles down on the "Nutritional Food Action" formula in a competition against a mysterious new challenger! Play against a friend in/solve minor disputes with this 2-player game from joseph3000!

28.09.2018

Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.

01.04.2021

A demake of the first world of the original Plants vs. Zombies. 10 levels, 8 different plants, 5 different zombies, 3 complete songs!

17.07.2022

Climb an impossible tower.

30.01.2022

A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.

12.09.2023

A small metroidvania in which you delve deeper into a planet, until you reach it's bottom...

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.

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.)

09.04.2019

Rotate the stage and collect all the green pickups to open up the exit. Features 20 stages and 4 bosses and includes a new game plus with reshuffled procedurally generated levels.