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.
Pico World Race is a fast-paced racing game for PICO-8. Get in your supercar and take a trip around the world, testing your driving skills on challenging circuits against a host of opponents.
Gather resources, build rails, drive the train, earn coins and unlock new areas!
This is a one button dueling game. Hold to run, let go before passing to attack. Whoever hits hardest wins.
Old Site is a mod of Celeste Classic using ideas from the chapter "Old Site" from the game's full release, Celeste.
Build a big automated factory on an isolated asteroid, sell your products and send rockets into space.
A tiny challenging arcade shoot’em up where you shoot down quirky aliens to save your planet. Evade bullets, shoot enemies, get upgrades, survive through challenging waves to defeat the final boss, "The Monke".
A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.
Sunrose.p8 is a demake of Sunrose featuring little sunroses. Z + left and right arrow keys.
Transform your enemies into cake with your electric beams. Eat cake to gain back lost health. Maximize you health and beam power by eating golden cakes dropped by demons Hover while shooting electric beams
Jump down holes, fight monsters, and collect orbs as you make your way through cave formations and crumbling dungeons in this chaotic pico8 roguelike.
In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.
A short puzzle game where you mimic animals to take their form.
Snekburd is a Pico-8 demake of Snakebird, by Noumenon Games, with new puzzles and mechanics! Navigate the snakebirds to eat all the fruit and head through the portal to complete the levels on each island. The first island's levels should serve as a quick tutorial to new players or a refresher for returning ones. The full game has about 70 levels in it, ranging from a little tricky to absurdly hard, and is available for free (donations enabled with Noumenon Games' permission).
Create combo chaos & face the consequences
You have nine lives. Make them count. Ninja Cat Remewstered is a challenging fast-paced platformer where a lone cat seeks to prove himself to the big bosses of the world. Starting with only shuriken on hand, he will find tools throughout his journey, laying claim to gold while he's at it! ...But stay aware! There are a variety of relentless enemies and hazards that will stand between him and his goals.
A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.
You play as a bird with a baseball cap on a search to find a new floating island after their first one crumbles. Instead of jumping off platforms, you flap your wings in mid air to propel yourself in the direction you're aiming.
A turn-based asteroids / snake / roguelike for LD41. VYPERSPACE is an asteroids game, you shoot asteroids to break them into smaller chunks before you can destroy them. Sometimes there is ore inside. VYPERSPACE is a snake game, you eat ore to grow longer and need to avoid running into your own tail. VYPERSPACE is a roguelike, it is a keyboard-driven turn-based tile-grid game of delaying permadeath by emergent hazards that only move when you do.
A clone of PakuPaku — built using PICO-8, with no external sprites or assets. It’s basically a one-button game: Press any arrow key to flip your direction. Eat pellets. Dodge the ghost — unless you're powered up. Fast, focused, and minimal. Just pixels, logic, and a bit of chaos. Made as a small learning project.