Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Explore tide pools and consult the cards as you pick which rumors about yourself to spread.
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.
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map!
Survive waves of enemies on a hostile alien world and contend with random modifiers every 10 seconds. Find new weapons scattered across the map. Watch your stats and try to use the most optimal damage type. How many waves will you survive?
A two-player juggle fiesta!
A demake of Japan's best selling action game Thexder in PICO-8.
Pushamo is an arcade push-em-up that challenges you to organize different shapes into squares to clear blocks and earn points! It's no easy task, though - as you push on, shapes will come faster and more frequently until you find yourself as overwhelmed as you are engrossed.
A PICO-8 port of Irem’s R-Type, featuring the 4 stages in a 32kb cart! (Similar to the PC-Engine port, with 4 in a 256kb hu-card.)
A port of Another World game engine & assets to 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.
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!
A port of Kian Bashiri's flash game of the same name.
A port of Omega Race for PICO-8. Kill all enemies to advance to the next level. Use the shield to avoid enemy fire and the rotating lasers. Collect yellow coins for the bonus level.
Spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made.
Provide the service of decorating and cleaning spaces so they spark joy!
A strategy-based resource management simulation, where three houses fight for control of the planet Dune - the land of sand and home of the spice. It is a demake of the classic (and original) RTS game Dune II, re-created from scratch in PICO-8.
CrossGunr is a bullet hell inspired caravan shmup for the pico-8, made for the Lazy Devs Basic Shmup Game Jam, and with the help of Lazy Devs Academy Tutorials.
A challenging puzzle game in which the player manipulates gravity in order to reach magical, green portals. Place colored boxes on buttons to open gates, avoid spikes, and more!
A retro fan-game and unofficial prequel to Nintendo's Advance Wars series made in the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Will you enter the dungeon? Will you survive? Will you make fat stacks of $? Will you transform Gar's Den into Player's Den???
In this game you play as a monkey who LOVES BANANAS! As all monkeys he's willing to solve outrageous puzzles to get some bananas.
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.
A PICO-8 demake of Tetris Effect.