Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
In Knight of the Dead, the apocalypse is upon us. To run from the inevitable horde, one must consider their moves wisely, lest time, and the undead, catch up to them.
A shoot’em up game with bite-size levels.
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.
Zebulon the cat is lost in a strange place, but he has a lot of courage and curiosity quickly replaces fear as he explores and unravels the world around him. It also helps that smelly green food is everywhere to grab!
A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.
Grab all 30 time pieces in this short platformer, based on the game A Hat in Time!
A PICO-8 demake of iii, a little "catroidvania" about a one-eyed cat leaving his comfort zone. Explore underground caverns, gain vision of other dimensions, help the inhabitants, and expand your horizons.
Do you love WarioWare? And do you love PICO-8? What we if we combine them into one game that you can play in your browser, right now? Includes 68 microgames made by 50+ developers.
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.
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!
An aquatic action game. Swim sword first into the deep to destroy the evil at the heart of the ocean.
A Metroidvania without an interconnected world or character upgrades.
A Pizza Tower Demake for PICO-8.
A browser based holiday themed bowling game.
You are a worm. Worms love eating fruit, even though it makes them poop. But this is a good thing: poop becomes flowers and flowers bring much joy to the world. Eat fruit, avoid poop, flowers increase the score multiplier, eating flowers makes the multiplier smaller.
Ever wonder what Devil May Cry would be like if the entire game was in the air? Climb as high as you can while making sure to be stylish! Rack up kills and altitude while avoiding falling to your death!
A simple tennis game for PICO-8. Play against AI or with up to 4 players in local multiplayer.
A PICO-8 demake of Street Fighter II.
A SHMUP-Survivor-Roguelike mash where you must dodge, shoot, and upgrade in order to beat the final boss. Created along the LazyDevs academy basic shmup tutorial with its own twists on the theme.
My version of the Atari's arcade game Night Driver and Dr. Reiner Foerst's Nürburgring 1.
A tiny challenging arcade shoot’em up where you shoot down quirky aliens to save your planet. Evade bullets, shoot enemies, get upgrades, survive through challenging waves to defeat the final boss, "The Monke".
In 2021, the last time I taught the class, I didn’t want to hide the homework in the games. Instead I used the games as ways of presenting ideas. I made several, but I like this one, a reinterpretation of the fortune-telling minigame from Ultima IV.