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.
Mars base, Union Aerospace Corporation experiments opened a portal to Hell. You appear to be the last human, fight your way out! Beaming up the virtual feed from Mars takes about 20s, be patient while loading the battle simulator soldier. If experiencing slowdowns, prefer desktop browser or beefy mobile.
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.
Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.
What do an excitable asexual pirate, a cultured genderqueer vampire, and a lesbian bird who may be at an important decision point in her life all have in common? They're all your friends, and they're all counting on you to make an absolute banger of a flag for them! In Flags for Friends, you play as a queer artist in a post-scarcity era and make custom pride flags for -- wait for it -- friends!
Enter the caves and try to find as much gold as you can before you perish to the dangers of the depth. Use your trusty whip in combination with bombs, ropes, and whatever you scavenge to get as far as you can.
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.
A top-down, fast-paced shooter where you pilot a plane and use it to dogfight against those that seek to bring you down. Easy to understand but hard to master, the balance of risk-reward for score maximization while trying to not get overwhelmed is what this game is about! Try to reach to the highest score!
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!
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.
Move a worm to carve the object across 17 thrilling levels!!
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 casual game where it's time to tidy up the solar system. Shove planets into each other to make bigger planets. No stress, take your time. Play strategically to trigger insane combos. Earn missiles to get out of tricky situations. A totally accurate simulation of celestial bodies.
A port of Another World game engine & assets to PICO-8.
In this falling block puzzle game, position your pieces wisely to make clusters of 4+ blocks of the same color. The bigger the cluster, the more points you'll get. Most importantly, if you manage to chain cluster destructions with the fall of the blocks, you'll multiply your points. Three different modes are available (after being unlocked), each one having a different rhythm.
Picross game with 12 easy (10x10) puzzles and 15 normal (15x15) puzzles.
Goobers have invaded Neo-earth turning all automated robots against their creators. Stop the horde of panic bots, keep the generator safe! Keep yourself safe? No you are expendable.
Astra is the smallest star in Constellation Station. Tired of being picked on, she sets off an adventure to build a new constellation of her own! Run, jump, slide, and float across the galaxy while collecting stardust to build your new home in this retro-inspired Pico-8 platformer.
This game is a demake of and an homage to Hollow Knight, a game by Team Cherry. Made for the 2018 Demake Jam. Explore an insect underworld, find the six charms and beat all the bosses.
Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns is a puzzle game about pastries. The goal is to help Mai-Chan serve her sweet buns to customers at her bakery.
Combo Pool is a game made using PICO-8, and the winning entry to p8jam2. It's a game where you throw colored marbles against each other. If two marbles of the same color make contact, they merge and upgrade to the next color. Your lifebar diminish with the number of balls on the field. If you lifebar is empty, you enter in a sudden death mode, and your last ball must save you by removing some balls.
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