Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Explore rooms in the ever-expanding deimos hotel.
Pilot an adorable, customizable biplane! Explore the world! Deliver mail from the skies!
This is 2018’s assignment, a diabolical puzzle. You’re a monk who has forgotten where his cell is in the monastery, and who must walk the labyrinth in order to remember it. If you can find his room, you’ll find out what the assignment prompt is. I was a bit worried the students would be unable to find the prompt hidden in this one, but about half of them got there eventually. (The rest were expelled from the university.) 2018’s class was 100% Pico-8 so it seemed appropriate that the prompt game should be in Pico-8 too. Pico-8 is so great for prototyping — as a case in point, it builds to a single JS and HTML file which loads quite happily in the browser from a local file, so you don’t get annoying permissions or crossdomain problems.
Hug those monster until They become your friend.
A PICO-8 demake of of the PSP game Every Extend Extra, an arcade game about detonating your ship, causing colourful chain reactions in the enemies, granting you points.
Totally original RTS about bossing around plant people
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!
Driftmania is an arcade time trial racing game. Your goal is to get the fastest possible time on each of the 15 challenging tracks
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.
Stab your friends! Evade, fish for counterhits, and chip away at your opponent in head to head combat. Inspired by Nidhogg and footsies.
This is a PICO-8 port of Stealthscape, a top-down momentum based speed game that has you pitted against a wide variety of enemies and obstacles while you try to quickly make your way to the portal at the end of each stage.
Uchu Mega Fight has three styles for each character. Choose a system that is close to your taste and the game you are familiar with .
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map! There is no time constraint, no danger, there's no gameover. Instead, this game proposes a calming experience of exploration and encounters. You can just stop playing when you feel satisfied. A play session will usually last 15 to 30 minutes.
A mod of the PICO-8 platformer Celeste (now known as Celeste Classic) with new levels and sliding block mechanics.
Use your solitaire skills to assemble sweet combos and defeat the dungeon's monsters. Grab treasure and spend it on powerful, synergistic abilities. Manage both your own resources and the demon's patience to hopefully survive the ordeal.
Welcome To BulletHeck is a small rougelike game focused on randomized items and conserving energy. Energy is consumed by both shooting and sprinting and running out will cause the player to slow down for a short time. New guns and items can be discovered as you progress as well as stat upgrades that can be bought from shops. The only objective is to reach floor 10 and fight the boss.
Take off and explore the mountains and lakes of Picotopia! A flight simulator made for PICO-8. Flight model should be "somewhat realistic" in that it models thrust, lift, drag and weight--Of course all the numbers are made up, and things are grossly simplified.
"In Dino Sort, there are, uh, dinosaurs, and, well, you have to, you know, sort them out." A puzzle game about arranging dinosaurs around a grid. Each dinosaur has a specific ruleset that must be followed.
Explore a research station in this short platformer.
Help Atom Girl defeat waves of enemies trying to stop her as she races through space. Use her ability to change into a ship and back to blast her foes into stardust.
A runner/platformer where play as a samurai trying to save your cat from demons. Your character runs automatically while you control your jumps and attacks.
Fly your Arwing to victory in this PICO-8 demake of Star Fox. Features 3 levels: Cornerea, Venom and Fortuna.
An open-world rpg for Pico-8, where you can catch, train, and battle with over 100 varieties of monsters! Gameplay is performed by navigating the overworld until you encounter either a wild Eidolon or an opposing trainer, which transitions the game to battle mode. Battle mode uses turn-based mechanics across a grid to allow you to fight - until all foes are defeated!