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.
Remember Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Sega Master System? Now it's crunched down to 64x64 for the Pico-8 Fantasy Console! This miniaturised version of the game features everything from the original game - recreated in the limitations of Pico-8!
A Pico-8 Sized Adventure. Join Link as he fights through 3 dangerous dungeons, solves dastardly puzzles and fights deadly bosses all packed into a bite sized PNG. Bring peace to the world!
You are a star that jumps.
In Space Corgi 2: Snowhound Protocol, you solve puzzles using the power of teamwork. Created for CorgiJam!
In Ghost in the Garden, play as a little cat witch and help the princess catch all the ghosts!
Ricochet around an alien world in this Pico-8 pinball table.
Discover the secrets to your brother's disappearance. Learn more about yourself and gain insights. A low rez adventure inspired by Zelda and Undertale.
A 1v1 blizzard standoff! Bring you friend (or your rival) for a showdown in the snow.
Pizza Panda is a fast-paced pizza-delivery platformer for the PICO-8 fantasy console. Players take on the role of a panda who drives a cartoonishly agile car, jumping around small vertically oriented cityscape-style levels in order to collect pizza and deliver it directly into the mouths of various animals who are sticking their heads out of the windows of buildings. Each level presents the photographs of one or more animals to which the player must deliver the pizza, some of them wearing hats which the player must correctly place upon the animals' heads in order to make a valid delivery. There are also baby rats crawling on the roofs of some buildings which must be collected and delivered to their papa without letting them be eaten by cats. In order to accomplish these things, the player stacks pizzas, hats, and baby rats on the roof of the car and traverses the level, either touching or avoiding certain NPCs. Finding an efficient route through each level is encouraged through the use of a target time; if the player completes all the objectives of a level within the target time, a star is awarded for that level.
A remake of the first Five Nights At Freddy's game in PICO-8.
A not-entirely-canon demake of the game 'Zeewolf' by Binary Asylum. Pilot your Zedwolf chopper across 6.5 km^2 of 3d open world environment, rescue hostages and repel the enemy force's attack!
It's based off a "sleepcast" by the app HeadSpace called "Midnight Launderette".
Micro Murder is a game of ballistic extermination for 1 or 2 tactical modules, organic or otherwise. Assert your domination over four pictoresque and extremely resource-rich celestial bodies using a flexible arsenal designed to fit any situation.
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.
An isometric bird-based demake of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series.
Send your worker ants to gather resources… amass an army of bugs to defend your queen... build your ant empire and conquer the lawn! A PICO-8 demake of Age of Empires II.
Take fotos of the bunnies in your garden.
In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.
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.
A compilation of different Roc Studios games made in PICO-8.
This is a little experiment Bennett Foddy made in Pico-8 a while ago on a flight. It uses a control method they hadn’t seen before, where the movement is damped according to the rate of change in the acceleration (the ‘jerk’) which creates a strange oscillating movement.