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.

26.08.2025

"From Rust To Ash" is roguelike auto battler where your items are your build. Fight, Loot, Scavenge. Arrange your items to benefit from each other, store items in your backpack for future synergies, scrap what you don't need to increase your health. Do all that you need to survive the encounters before you.

03.04.2022

Picopicotron is a toy desktop environment built with PICO-8. Use the mouse to control it like a standard computer from the nineties. Includes a Pyramid card game and a version of minesweeper.

22.04.2023

Pico Valley is a Stardew Valley demake for PICO-8.

11.04.2022

The world is overflowing with Poop! You are summoned to help and collect it all! This game has 32 levels, each one has a countdown of only few seconds to clear and collect all of the scat laying around. A simple platformer made with PICO-8 where all you need to do is move left and right and jump from the start point to the exit door after everything is collected.

09.09.2021

Portal Golf is a physics puzzle game with portals. Place portals around the level in order to get the ball to collect every gold bar. You have no control over the movement of the ball and can only place portals before you start the run. Try to use as few portals as possible to earn medals, or just fill the whole level with portals and have fun!

15.08.2015

Dusk Child is an adventure-platformer about a young archaeologist looking for her home.

28.03.2016

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!

10.03.2023

In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.

19.05.2016

This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.

01.07.2025

Colette the mouse runs her own fromagerie after working years as an affineur for other restaurants. But it's a big world for a small mouse, and she's got to make a name for herself. She wants to curate the best cheese in the world. Will her cheese be CHEDDAR than the rest? Or will it BRIE no GOUDA?

21.03.2017

A fan game heavily inspired by the early Mega Man series.

01.01.1970

Intense and minimalistic Beat'em up made for Pico-8.

02.04.2024

How far will you go? Take a roadtrip along peaceful country roads, as you fly through an ever changing sky, in this cosy, atmospheric, arcade game, with a retro aesthetic and soundtrack to match.

11.11.2023

Experience a nostalgic throwback with this Pico-8 demake of the classic iOS game Birds and Saws. Dive into the retro charm and challenge yourself as you guide a bird, skillfully avoiding menacing circular saws to rack up high scores.

01.06.2023

In Porter, you play as Yug who may teleport and jump. If Yug teleports into a wall, Yug dies. If Yug jumps into spikes, Yug dies. The goal is to use Yugs teleportation and jump to get to the yellow coin in each level.

22.10.2023

A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.

22.11.2023

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.

24.04.2022

PicoCross is a nonogram puzzle game for the Pico-8 Fantasy Console.

08.03.2017

A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.

13.10.2020

Pico Snail is a Pico-8 game inspired by the musician Snail's House You play as Snail-Chan, and are tasked with defending the Dream castle! You can run, jump, thwack enemies, and use stars you collect for special powers!

31.12.2018

This is 2018’s assignment, a diabolical puzzle. You’re a monk who has forgotten where his cell is in the monastery, and who must walk the labyrinth in order to remember it. If you can find his room, you’ll find out what the assignment prompt is. I was a bit worried the students would be unable to find the prompt hidden in this one, but about half of them got there eventually. (The rest were expelled from the university.) 2018’s class was 100% Pico-8 so it seemed appropriate that the prompt game should be in Pico-8 too. Pico-8 is so great for prototyping — as a case in point, it builds to a single JS and HTML file which loads quite happily in the browser from a local file, so you don’t get annoying permissions or crossdomain problems.

07.04.2020

The classic 16-bit-era action puzzle game returns again - enhanced and remastered. Pico de Pon brings favorite characters from across the PICO-8 library together for intense block-swapping battle.