Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

08.04.2020

Pacman and Snake! Two Arcade Classics Mashed together!

31.10.2025

In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.

24.04.2016

Fan game based on the movie "My Neighbor Totoro"

02.12.2020

In Yarn you control the character by using just a single button. Avoid the traps, collect the stars and stomp on the zombie cats to complete each level. This version of the game is a PICO-8 demake of the iOS game Yarn.

20.08.2015

A demake of the game Dark Echo (Steam, iOS, Android) for PICO-8. You are trapped in a world of absolute darkness and can only see via visualized echolocation.

22.12.2017

Light matches and read cards. Choose a card to burn & learn a little about yourself.

27.10.2022

Jump down holes, fight monsters, and collect orbs as you make your way through cave formations and crumbling dungeons in this chaotic pico8 roguelike.

24.08.2018

Enter the caves and try to find as much gold as you can before you perish to the dangers of the depth. Use your trusty whip in combination with bombs, ropes, and whatever you scavenge to get as far as you can.

01.09.2019

VVVVV but in all directions

19.02.2022

Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!

01.05.2020

Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.

05.11.2019

Defeat the boss! Melt his heart... with your sword!

28.10.2021

A game in which one is tasked to control a body.

09.08.2015

A simple Marble Madness clone with three levels.

04.08.2019

A short, Sokoban-style puzzle game with many doors, but only one key.

18.09.2022

When you shoot rock, gem fall out. Get gem. More gem got without shoot = more combo point. Get 10000 point to become master of shoot rock. This was an entry for PICO-1K Jam 2022. The whole game fits in exactly 1024 bytes of compressed PICO-8 code.

02.04.2024

How far will you go? Take a roadtrip along peaceful country roads, as you fly through an ever changing sky, in this cosy, atmospheric, arcade game, with a retro aesthetic and soundtrack to match.

13.09.2022

A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!

14.03.2021

This is a pico-8 port of Klax, mainly based on the Atari Lynx version, featuring: -100 levels -5 different backgrounds -warps -full klax combos and scoring system.

09.01.2021

An explosive homage to the old-time multiplayer classic made with PICO-8! In this game, your goal is to drop bombs on the battlefield to eliminate all other players in time and be the last manbomber standing. The game can be played with up to 4 players battling each other. While in the 2-player mode, both players can use the same keyboard to control their manbomber, a controller for each player is required for all other modes. Any Controller which can be connected to your device will do!

31.12.2021

For my very final prompt, I wanted to leave the students with one lasting idea: that I make games for enjoyment and want to do it as much as I can, even when I’m limited to a day or two’s work and 8192 Pico8 tokens. I hope that came across in this little game.

31.12.2021

In 2021, the last time I taught the class, I didn’t want to hide the homework in the games. Instead I used the games as ways of presenting ideas. I made several, but I like this one, a reinterpretation of the fortune-telling minigame from Ultima IV.

02.01.2023

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).