Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
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.
Stab your friends! Evade, fish for counterhits, and chip away at your opponent in head to head combat. Inspired by Nidhogg and footsies.
Survive being chased by a rolling snowball with a crafty penguin. Pickup, combine, and throw objects to delay the snowball’s inevitable descent! Throwing objects at the snowball chips away at its continually growing volume, while throwing them at other objects can craft tools to better suit your survival.
Picopolis is a SimCity demake / idle game in which you place roads, residental/industrial/commercial zoning, schools, police departments, hospitals, and various other things. The city will grow depending on housing, jobs, pollution, and crime ratings, and the bigger it gets the more money you make.
Sybil's Tail is a tiny, 15-30 minute long platformer made for PICO-8. Run, jump, slide, grab, and toss your way through 6 bite-sized areas as you search for a mysterious meteorite that fell nearby!
Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.
This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.
Pilot an adorable, customizable biplane! Explore the world! Deliver mail from the skies!
More picross puzzles for PICO-8.
A demake of the X68000 Attack of the Deathstar game, complete with space/ground/trench missions. This version departs from the original with a less arcade/grinding gameplay.
A PICO-8 demake of iii, a little "catroidvania" about a one-eyed cat leaving his comfort zone. Explore underground caverns, gain vision of other dimensions, help the inhabitants, and expand your horizons.
This is a tiny adventure based directly on Fez, by Polytron Corporation. It is a fan work, and was not made in collaboration with or endorsed by them. Fuz features a total of 8 distinct areas. Its visuals, mechanics, and puzzles are all based off those in the original.
Dodge, evolve, survive in this survival shmup. Help vampire hunter Liz Belmont to survive until dawn. Except dawn will never come.
To a Starling is an indie fantasy platformer. Use your teleportation abilities to whirl through the rocky wastes and to find brighter stars.
A bite-sized pico8 roguelike.
A port of Another World game engine & assets to PICO-8.
It's winter. Let's go sledding. Ride the slope until you stop or crash.
You wake up in the middle of a spooky town trying to find your way back home. Help the citizens of this weird town and they will open paths for you.
A tower climbing challenge taking influence from classic game romhacks- 32 screens of tightly packed high-stakes precision platforming, where any fall could result in a devastating domino effect that erases your progress.
A metroidvania with a unique perspective mechanic. Find your missing clothes and confront your tiny brother...
A dungeon-crawler game built around a deck of 54 cards. This is a demake of Donsol by John Eternal and Hundred Rabbits in PICO-8.
A retro style pseudo-3d bike racing game