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.
Inspired by the release of CorgiSpace and SEBI16, the author wanted to try out PICO-8. Here is the result! His first PICO-8 game, made between January 18th-22nd of 2026.
A difficult platform game, prove you are a Pumpking!
These busy birds will eat almost anything that falls into their gullet -- what will you feed them? They have their preferences, but people food beats bird food any day of the week! A difficult, chaotic arcade game with local multiplayer support!
Try to get the frogs to the top of the screen to fed, by playing cards
A faithful tribute that captures every little detail of the original game developed by Nintendo in 1984. Test your reflexes in this PICO-8 demake of the NES classic!
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.
You’re a sky-island delivery worker delivering mail to all the nearby islands. Everything runs smoothly until the letters suddenly aren’t being delivered. Find all of the letters and deliver them to their recipients. Maybe they’ll give you something as a thank you.
In Space Corgi 2: Snowhound Protocol, you solve puzzles using the power of teamwork. Created for CorgiJam!
P.Craft is a crafting game made using Pico 8. You wake up on a deserted island, and you have to survive. Gather materials and build your tools. Explore the area and find a cave. Will you find a way to escape the island ?
Pico Valley is a Stardew Valley demake for PICO-8.
Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns is a puzzle game about pastries. The goal is to help Mai-Chan serve her sweet buns to customers at her bakery.
Kalikan is a vertically scrolling bullet hell 'shmup inspired by Dodonpachi- pushing the limits of ~virtual~ hardware . Control one of 3 1 ship(s) featuring two varied attack modes . Maintain your chain to compete for the highest scores.
Pico Life is a demake of Half-Life in PICO-8.
Steve Johanson has disappeared and his girlfriend Sally Franklin has hired your detective agency to locate him. Even before you get on the scene there are signs that maybe this isn't just a simple missing persons case. Can you crack it? Explore Anteform Valley and its settlements, talk to its residents, search desks and files, and build up your skills as you collect clues to figure out what really happened to Steve and maybe even prevent it from happening again. Anteform is a horror / sci-fi detective story 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 (although thematically it fits in better with the Worlds of Ultima games). Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.
Help Mr. Swop find stars by swapping tiles around.
Pico Dino is a reimagination of Google Chrome's offline dinosaur game made in PICO-8.
Bake bread and draw cards as you talk to your body and learn a little more about it.
A pico-8 voxel shmup in which you must survive as long as possible to an increasing number of enemies.
Pico Racer is a new and exciting racing game for your Pico-8 console. Overtake opponents and avoid obstacles! Drive through the night! Race your way through three continents! Enjoy geography that makes no sense!
Take the cursed dagger, use its power to dispatch the horrors from this hellish place, score the best time! A fan game based on Devils Daggers for PICO-8.
In this 2D platformer with golf controls, you must aim, charge, then launch yourself around a dangerous abandoned power plant in order to save the worms!
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.