Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Explore rooms in the ever-expanding deimos hotel.
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.
The Land of Miskatonia needs a hero to save it from the evil Faxon and its minions. Can you be that hero? Explore Miskatonia and its settlements, talk to its residents, build up your skills, and finally challenge Faxon in its secret lair. Minima is an adventure RPG in the style of the older Ultima games (Ultima I, Ultima II, Ultima III, Ultima IV, & Ultima V) as played on the Commodore 64 and 128 computers. Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. It also features graphics, sound effects, and music that should help one recollect those classics. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.
Alpine Ascent is a little chill climbing platformer made for PICO-8. The green bar represents your stamina. When it reaches zero, you cannot climb or jump. You can replenish stamina by landing, or using a green stamina coin. Collecting gold coins will increase your maximum stamina. You will slip down when climbing on ice blocks. You cannot climb on obsidian blocks, and magma blocks will quickly drain your stamina while you climb them. For an extra challenge, try to get to the top of the mountain without letting your stamina reach zero, or collect all the coins!
Harvest fish daily to keep the baby penguins fed. Be careful, the fish won’t go without a fight! Move toward a fish while adjacent to it to attack it. Mola Molas (the large fish) take two hits to capture, while everything else only needs one. Carefully plan your route in this turn-based dungeon crawler to out-maneuver the fish- how many fish can you harvest?
A retro futuristic anti-gravity racing game!
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.
Mortal Cards challenges you with the ultimate card playing experience… On a secluded island, six elite fighters have gathered to test their deadly skills. Each competes with a deck of 15 cards, 5 cards each round, as they battle each other and finally, the 4-armed mutant warrior Goro.
Cyclo 8 is a physics bike game, similar to the Trials series.
Cute retro racer. Go loop and loop in this relaxing animal racing game!
A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.
What's at the bottom of the pit? Could be anything! Could be everything! I have to find out!
This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.
Hug those monster until They become your friend.
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.
Made for local game jam under 48h hours. Platformer about bending space and connecting it in your mind. Have fun.