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.
This is a short but sweet game about trekking through the woods to make a special delivery.
A retro fan-game and unofficial prequel to Nintendo's Advance Wars series made in the PICO-8 fantasy console.
How long will you last? How many demons can you banish back to hell? Fight enemies, gather gems dropping from them to level up, don't let the enemies catch you, upgrade your character by choosing a card and survive!
Revenge is a dish best served... Pixelated!
A Tetris demake for PICO-8 that adheres to the 2009 Tetris guidelines.
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.
A compilation of different Roc Studios games made in PICO-8.
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.
Brutal Pico Race futurist racing game on Pico8 by Yourykiki - The Lurking Engine
Explore tide pools and consult the cards as you pick which rumors about yourself to spread.
R.I.P. Curl is a scientifically accurate surfing simulator featuring four different playable characters, four rounded corners, and many many many waves, sharks and bombs.
Slimey, Jump! Is a tiny one-button platformer game with 28 levels and 4 bosses. It's meant to be a simple but challenging game that everyone can enjoy, regardless of their skill level!
Hug those monster until They become your friend.
Steer your car, avoiding obstacles to gain score. "Grazing" an obstacle will increase your score multiplier. Try to beat your hi-score!
CrossGunr is a bullet hell inspired caravan shmup for the pico-8, made for the Lazy Devs Basic Shmup Game Jam, and with the help of Lazy Devs Academy Tutorials.
Cipher-8 is a brain-twisting minimalist arcade puzzler where you push numbers into a grid and manipulate them with randomly drawn special abilities. Blitz mode is all about frantic combo streaks. In puzzle mode you can analyze every move. Both modes scale infinitely in their difficulty.
Get back to your nest and finish your nap in this retro-inspired platformer! Pip is a baby pelican that is startled from its sleep during a storm and must find its way back home. Collect the feathers scattered around the island until you have enough strength to flap back to your nest
The 2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar is here! Busy little devs elves have been hard at work these past couple of months crafting you some holiday cheer. Please enjoy a new game, toy, or demo each day.
Enter the catacombs of the Cantina of Eight (that's the name of the community) and search for the Achtefakt! While you're at it save the Cantina residents who have been kidnapped by the zoo (which doesn't actually exist).
A port of Kian Bashiri's flash game of the same name.
A first-person grid-based oldschool mini dungeon crawler inspired by Wizardry/Ultima, created in PICO-8.
A fan-made, fun-sized version of Samurai GUNN 2.