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.
You are one big monster with an appetite for destruction. This turn-based rogue-like PICO-8 game is all about that stomping, smashing, grabbing, and chomping your way through a procedurally generated hapless city and its tiny citizens.
Petal Quest is a short PICO-8 game of discovery with light puzzles.
A two-player competitive pong rpg! In addition to playing pong, both players also gain XP/gold that can be used to level up, spawn units, make buildings, cast spells, etc.
A tiny metroidvania platformer where you play as a cube. You gain more and more abilities as you progress. There are multiple environments, some collectibles, and you can find a boss fight at the end.
Drill as deep as you can, but don't get crushed!
In Dust Bunny, you are a little bunny with a big job - sweep up the dust!
A simple shmup reminiscent of the arcade era. Your mission is to fly into enemy space and destroy the aliens that pose a threat to all life on Earth!
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 8bit Space shooter in Pico 8
Fly your Arwing to victory in this PICO-8 demake of Star Fox. Features 3 levels: Cornerea, Venom and Fortuna.
A port of Kian Bashiri's flash game of the same name.
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.
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.
In Bandit Accountancy, you sort gems using a gamepad or the arrow keys.
An homage to Katamari Damacy for Pico8 in 1021 bytes for the #PICO1k jam. Collect enough things with your Katamari ball to reach 64cm as fast as possible to please the King of all Cosmos.
You’re a sky-island delivery worker delivering mail to all the nearby islands. Everything runs smoothly until the letters suddenly aren’t being delivered. Find all of the letters and deliver them to their recipients. Maybe they’ll give you something as a thank you.
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.
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.
Scale ancient castle walls and dash over deadly pits. Every leap, wall jump, and dash costs you precious health. Navigate 16 challenging levels, find the key, and reach the exit before your health runs out.
"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.
De-make of "No Man's Sky"... in PICO-8
A short atmospheric platformer with metroidvania elements made in 10 days as a game jam entry for RNDGAME 2020.