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.
Can you bring the wolf, the goat, the cabbage, the hunter, the gun, the monkey and the washing machine on the other side!?
Step back in time to an era when folk were real folk and race car steering wheels were real steering wheels. Mot's Grand Prix is a pseudo 3D Formula 1 racer inspired by Grand Prix Circuit, Continental Circus and a bunch of other 80s/90s racers. The game has 4 difficulty levels plus a practice mode to learn the courses without the pressure of racing.
Mama Cabra is a goat space shooter. Shoot space foes, save sheepies and smell the flowers. Made with Pico-8 for the I, Rebel game jam 2025. Powered by Atari
After Marsho lent his game to a friend awhile back, Mo won't give it back now! It's up to you find the Warp Stars and take it back even if force is needed.
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.
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.
Slimey, Jump! Is a tiny one-button platformer game with 28 levels and 4 bosses. It's meant to be a simple but challenging game that everyone can enjoy, regardless of their skill level!
Explore rooms in the ever-expanding deimos hotel.
A Tetris demake for PICO-8 that adheres to the 2009 Tetris guidelines.
This project is an entry for Krystman's Basic Shmup Showcase event, which revolves around the amazing shmup tutorial series for the fantasy console: PICO-8.
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.
Steel Surge: Revolution is a short caravan shmup.
An 8-bit homage to the original Superhot game created by three members of the Superhot Team.
A low-res demake of Friday Night Funkin' made in PICO-8
A retro style pseudo-3d bike racing game
Play Moss Moss to moss the world and find secrets.
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!
Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.
The Land of Miskatonia needs a hero to save it from the evil Faxon and its minions. Can you be that hero? Explore Miskatonia and its settlements, talk to its residents, build up your skills, and finally challenge Faxon in its secret lair. Minima is an adventure RPG in the style of the older Ultima games (Ultima I, Ultima II, Ultima III, Ultima IV, & Ultima V) as played on the Commodore 64 and 128 computers. Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. It also features graphics, sound effects, and music that should help one recollect those classics. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.
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 pico-8 voxel shmup in which you must survive as long as possible to an increasing number of enemies.