Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
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.
In Super Mumtaz Bros. you join the titular plumbing brothers on their mission to rescue Princess Sana from... chickens?
A puzzle PICO-8 game by benjamin_soule in which the player must group blocks of the same pattern and/or color and clear the screen.
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map! There is no time constraint, no danger, there's no gameover. Instead, this game proposes a calming experience of exploration and encounters. You can just stop playing when you feel satisfied. A play session will usually last 15 to 30 minutes.
A Pico-8 Sized Adventure. Join Link as he fights through 3 dangerous dungeons, solves dastardly puzzles and fights deadly bosses all packed into a bite sized PNG. Bring peace to the world!
A collection of picross puzzles for PICO-8.
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.
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.
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.
Foreverred is a mod of Celeste Classic developed in over a year. Starting as an update to the developer's first mod, Everred, it grew into a full sequel, and eventually into the biggest CELESTE Classic mod ever released (and possibly one of the biggest PICO-8 projects). The mod is over three times the size of the original game, and features brand new levels, mechanics, sprites, and music.
Will you enter the dungeon? Will you survive? Will you make fat stacks of $? Will you transform Gar's Den into Player's Den???
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.
A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.
Gather resources and build a cosy little town!
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.
In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.
CrossGunr: Infinite is a caravan shooter, and sequel to CrossGunr, developed for PICO-8.
In Ghost in the Garden, play as a little cat witch and help the princess catch all the ghosts!
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.
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.
Ricochet around an alien world in this Pico-8 pinball table.
An X-Com like game with procedurally generated maps for PICO-8. The game has 16 levels, and you need to beat level 16 to win.
Remember Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Sega Master System? Now it's crunched down to 64x64 for the Pico-8 Fantasy Console! This miniaturised version of the game features everything from the original game - recreated in the limitations of Pico-8!