Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
The Earth is under attack from the invading alien war machine! Take control of the Solar Blaster fighter ship and strike back! An action packed space shooter where you’ve got 2 minutes to get the high score.
The picket line swells as factory after factory walk out on strike. For the exploited and the oppressed of the world, this is the moment -- but time is short. The arms of the state are mobilizing to halt your advance. Can you lead the workers to victory? A unique snake and sokoban puzzler with lots of clever mechanics in the mix.
A demake of Donkey Kong in PICO-8 starring Minio and Dinky Kong.
Mars base, Union Aerospace Corporation experiments opened a portal to Hell. You appear to be the last human, fight your way out! Beaming up the virtual feed from Mars takes about 20s, be patient while loading the battle simulator soldier. If experiencing slowdowns, prefer desktop browser or beefy mobile.
Train Journey is a 16-cartridge PICO-8 game (the maximum size) about a mysterious train to which the player is seemingly bound. Travel between stops, meet unique characters, and learn their stories. Can you free yourself and return home? Or will you ride the train forever...?
A precision puzzle-platformer aimed at speedrunners that turns one of the oldest videogame tropes on its head. In other games, dying is bad, and your remaining lives are just chances to try again... right? No, not on Harold's Bad Day. Finish as quickly as possible, while trying to save as many Harolds as you can for a perfect run.
Brutal Pico Race futurist racing game on Pico8 by Yourykiki - The Lurking Engine
Combo Pool is a game made using PICO-8, and the winning entry to p8jam2. It's a game where you throw colored marbles against each other. If two marbles of the same color make contact, they merge and upgrade to the next color. Your lifebar diminish with the number of balls on the field. If you lifebar is empty, you enter in a sudden death mode, and your last ball must save you by removing some balls.
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.
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!
Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!
Will you enter the dungeon? Will you survive? Will you make fat stacks of $? Will you transform Gar's Den into Player's Den???
You are a star that jumps.
This game is a demake of and an homage to Hollow Knight, a game by Team Cherry. Made for the 2018 Demake Jam. Explore an insect underworld, find the six charms and beat all the bosses.
Your goal is to reach the green gem in each level. Use the arrow keys to move and push red blocks out of your way. Find keys to open locked passages.
Soar to freedom in Feathered Escape, a platformer where you, as a trapped bird, navigate challenging environments, overcoming obstacles and adversaries to reclaim the open skies.
Reach the finish if you can, there's a lot of gold before it!
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 juicy remake of Breakout/Arkanoid with 15 levels and a high-score list.
Explore planets, collect alien eggs, survive.
Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.
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.
A Physics Puzzler where you build gooey structures to reach pneumatic pipes.