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.
Get back to your nest and finish your nap in this retro-inspired platformer! Pip is a baby pelican that is startled from its sleep during a storm and must find its way back home. Collect the feathers scattered around the island until you have enough strength to flap back to your nest
You signed up for the biggest martial-arts challenge in history! In a gauntlet beyond example, contestants from all around the world face myriads of artificial monstrosities to find out who can deal with them performing the most stylish and efficient combos. There’s a twist though - you can only move in accordance with the hand of cards you’re holding. Ah, there’s nothing like the beautiful arbitrariness of game rules...
A fast-paced arcade-style treasure hunt set in a deep, mysterious pit full of shiny loot, deadly traps and vicious enemies. Take control of a goblin equipped with a magical satchel and grab as much treasure as you can before running out of light.
An homage to Katamari Damacy for Pico8 in 1021 bytes for the #PICO1k jam. Collect enough things with your Katamari ball to reach 64cm as fast as possible to please the King of all Cosmos.
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.
Scale ancient castle walls and dash over deadly pits. Every leap, wall jump, and dash costs you precious health. Navigate 16 challenging levels, find the key, and reach the exit before your health runs out.
A Physics Puzzler where you build gooey structures to reach pneumatic pipes.
Pixel Session Vol.1 is a collection of 5 extra-polished eye-candy arcadey jam-style games, exploring experimental and minimalist gameplay and graphics! The Games GET DEEP INTO DESCENT GET LIGHTNING IN LIGHTNER GET WATCHED BY B1G BR0TH3R GET CLONES IN CHARGING PANIC GET BURSTING WITH CHROMA CANNON Each game is based on one simple but special gameplay mechanic and built around this mechanic. With a focus on visual feedback, the five games are fine examples of colorful video game juiciness. The results are five eye-candy arcadey games that will have you say "ok just one more time" a lot of times.
Inspired by the true-life events of my good friend Ryan. My first game ever; I am not a programmer and taught myself what I could of PICO-8, making this whole thing up as I went along, so I'm sure the code is very inefficient and a mess, sorry! It's a simple game and is mostly a lifetime of inside jokes, but to the general public: I hope you enjoy it anyway!
Help Old Ryan travel back to the past in this challenging puzzle game!
A demake of the first world of the original Plants vs. Zombies. 10 levels, 8 different plants, 5 different zombies, 3 complete songs!
A break-neck taxi driving game. Welcome to the Whiplash Taxi Company, where our motto is "The slower you're there, the lower the fare!" As a valued employee and taxi driver, your job is to pick up passengers and deliver them to their destination as fast as possible, by any means necessary. Passengers are easy to spot, just look for the big red arrows over their heads.
Cactus blocks are falling for some reason. You, a little frog named frog, have to jump and dodge out of their way. Set them up in lines (Tetris style) in order to clear them off of your land.
A short, challenging soulslike with metroidvania elements. Made in PICO 8 by Abhi Sundu. Olden Peak is a melee combat-focused metroidvania with some soulslike elements like limited healing flasks and stamina.
A bog standard minigolf game with 4-player pass-and-play multiplayer
A fan game heavily inspired by the early Mega Man series.
Send your worker ants to gather resources… amass an army of bugs to defend your queen... build your ant empire and conquer the lawn! A PICO-8 demake of Age of Empires II.
Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.
A Pico-8 Celeste mod featuring a lovable pink character who can fly and inhale items!
Cipher-8 is a brain-twisting minimalist arcade puzzler where you push numbers into a grid and manipulate them with randomly drawn special abilities. Blitz mode is all about frantic combo streaks. In puzzle mode you can analyze every move. Both modes scale infinitely in their difficulty.
Play solo or together in a mashup of tennis, volleyball, squash, and wallball where the only rule is: two bounces on one side is a point for the other.
Help the magical bunny girl to survive for 10 minutes against hordes of evil. Collect gems to get new skills, find bunnies to heal, carrots to recharge. This is tiny roguelike bullet heaven with a bunny girl made for Pico-8 fantasy console.