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.

20.07.2021

Snacks and spikes are falling from the sky! You, Aspen, must run around dodging the falling spike balls and scoffing the delectable foodstuffs.

07.01.2022

To a Starling is an indie fantasy platformer. Use your teleportation abilities to whirl through the rocky wastes and to find brighter stars.

26.12.2022

Train Journey is a 16-cartridge PICO-8 game (the maximum size) about a mysterious train to which the player is seemingly bound. Travel between stops, meet unique characters, and learn their stories. Can you free yourself and return home? Or will you ride the train forever...?

28.08.2023

They say it started in a lab, but no one knows for sure. It doesn't matter anyway, you just need to survive another 10 minutes!

10.08.2016

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

11.03.2020

Porklike is a classic, turn-based Roguelike with minimalist lo-fi aesthetic. Enter the tower of Wurstlord. Can you make it to the top and steal his legendary Kielbasa? 9 floors of dangerous traps and enemies await you. Only if you move carefully and master your character's abilities will you become the champion of Porklike.

25.12.2021

You are one big monster with an appetite for destruction. This turn-based rogue-like PICO-8 game is all about that stomping, smashing, grabbing, and chomping your way through a procedurally generated hapless city and its tiny citizens.

17.07.2022

Climb an impossible tower.

02.10.2020

Fight enemies and dodge hazards to find the exit!

30.12.2016

A museum slated for demolition has a ghost problem, and you have been asked to address it.

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!

06.08.2018

Welcome to Matchy Matchy, the puzzle game of animal love. Connect pairs (or more) of matching animals to solve puzzles, get points, and make love not war.

03.05.2024

Penny the Pumpkin: Directors Cut takes you on a delightful platforming open-world metroidvania with light puzzles to solve. Guide Penny, our lovable pumpkin, as she collects 18 precious coins! Your progress is saved every time she grabs a coin or enters a new area.

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?

04.11.2019

Time slows down drastically when not moving, use that strategically against the enemy. A mashup of Contra and SuperHot.

13.05.2020

An 8-bit homage to the original Superhot game created by three members of the Superhot Team.

24.02.2024

Soar to freedom in Feathered Escape, a platformer where you, as a trapped bird, navigate challenging environments, overcoming obstacles and adversaries to reclaim the open skies.

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?

15.09.2019

PICO-8 port of the iconic SEGA title

15.08.2015

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

18.07.2018

Jump, Roll, Hop and Dive your way through sharp caves to rescue your friends.

08.05.2018

A two-player competitive pong rpg! In addition to playing pong, both players also gain XP/gold that can be used to level up, spawn units, make buildings, cast spells, etc.