Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

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

A boss fight against a charming opponent!

Spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made.

Steps is a small Minit-like game where instead of dying from time, you die after a certain amount of steps. Explore the cursed island, solve puzzles, and find the hidden coins. Try to run away from the island by finding the Icarus wings as it is the only way to escape the cursed island.

A low-res 4 key rhythm game inspired by games such as Stepmania & DDR.

Play the blues like a duck!

dont play this game. it is too spooky :o

Brutal Pico Race futurist racing game on Pico8 by Yourykiki - The Lurking Engine

Feed the Ducks is a short casual platformer game with pixel graphics.

make shaved ice for animals at the festival! (there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)

A rhythm-based game in the style of Dance Dance Revolution for PICO-8.

Driftmania is an arcade time trial racing game. Your goal is to get the fastest possible time on each of the 15 challenging tracks

This is a short but sweet game about trekking through the woods to make a special delivery.

Porklike is a classic, turn-based Roguelike with minimalist lo-fi aesthetic. Enter the tower of Wurstlord. Can you make it to the top and steal his legendary Kielbasa? 9 floors of dangerous traps and enemies await you. Only if you move carefully and master your character's abilities will you become the champion of Porklike.

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

Pushamo is an arcade push-em-up that challenges you to organize different shapes into squares to clear blocks and earn points! It's no easy task, though - as you push on, shapes will come faster and more frequently until you find yourself as overwhelmed as you are engrossed.

A PICO-8 port of Irem’s R-Type, featuring the 4 stages in a 32kb cart! (Similar to the PC-Engine port, with 4 in a 256kb hu-card.)

A puzzle PICO-8 game by benjamin_soule in which the player must group blocks of the same pattern and/or color and clear the screen.

Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and uncover its secrets.

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.

A compilation of different Roc Studios games made in PICO-8.

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.

A short atmospheric platformer with metroidvania elements made in 10 days as a game jam entry for RNDGAME 2020.