Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.

This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.

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.

In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.

A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.

Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!

Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!

A simple endless game that made during SGDQ 2020.

Pico Racer is a new and exciting racing game for your Pico-8 console. Overtake opponents and avoid obstacles! Drive through the night! Race your way through three continents! Enjoy geography that makes no sense!

Fight enemies and dodge hazards to find the exit!

A clone of PakuPaku — built using PICO-8, with no external sprites or assets. It’s basically a one-button game: Press any arrow key to flip your direction. Eat pellets. Dodge the ghost — unless you're powered up. Fast, focused, and minimal. Just pixels, logic, and a bit of chaos. Made as a small learning project.

A demake of Mixolumia for the PICO-8. The goal is to reach level 15 by clearing 450 blocks. If the board fills up you lose.

A first-person grid-based oldschool mini dungeon crawler inspired by Wizardry/Ultima, created in PICO-8.

Nobody knows why - it's just always been this way. Our chance of survival is to absorb all the Green Orbs floating around, while avoiding certain death by touching the Lava - all before the time runs out!

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.

In Sebastian's Quest, you have to shove gems and find the cheese.

A fan-made, fun-sized version of Samurai GUNN 2.

In Mole Mole, you have to blow stuff up and take a nap.

Penny the Pumpkin: Directors Cut takes you on a delightful platforming open-world metroidvania with light puzzles to solve. Guide Penny, our lovable pumpkin, as she collects 18 precious coins! Your progress is saved every time she grabs a coin or enters a new area.

Foreverred is a mod of Celeste Classic developed in over a year. Starting as an update to the developer's first mod, Everred, it grew into a full sequel, and eventually into the biggest CELESTE Classic mod ever released (and possibly one of the biggest PICO-8 projects). The mod is over three times the size of the original game, and features brand new levels, mechanics, sprites, and music.

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.

Time Thief is an action adventure game where leaving your village makes the clock tick. Manage your time to stay alive, stealing seconds from creatures around its overworld with you sword.

What's at the bottom of the pit? Could be anything! Could be everything! I have to find out!