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.
A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.
A two-player juggle fiesta!
Take the cursed dagger, use its power to dispatch the horrors from this hellish place, score the best time! A fan game based on Devils Daggers for PICO-8.
The Shadow King has invaded the castle belonging to the Knights of Valor and they need your help to get it back! Explore the massive castle in this metroidvania and help the fallen knights back to their former glory! Upgrade your moves and weapons along the way as you fight minions, defeat bosses, find secrets, and unravel what has happened.
Survive waves of enemies on a hostile alien world and contend with random modifiers every 10 seconds. Find new weapons scattered across the map. Watch your stats and try to use the most optimal damage type. How many waves will you survive?
A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.
An aquatic action game. Swim sword first into the deep to destroy the evil at the heart of the ocean.
In Cave of Cards, you clear dungeons by making poker hands.
Hit the slopes, turn by turn! Play cards, clear gates, and don't crash!
Artemis' Minesweeper is the a hardcore version of minesweeper, a mashup of minesweeper and a bullet hell shoot 'em up. It features Artemis of the Blue Fan-Game by VTuber Numachi Tamanegi.
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.
A roguelike action-platformer where you use upgradeable weapons to combo powerful enemies to their doom! Overcome tough fights, platforming challenges, puzzles, and more in your effort to free the titan who is incarcerated in the shifting prison's depths.
A pico-8 voxel shmup in which you must survive as long as possible to an increasing number of enemies.
This is a little experiment Bennett Foddy made in Pico-8 a while ago on a flight. It uses a control method they hadn’t seen before, where the movement is damped according to the rate of change in the acceleration (the ‘jerk’) which creates a strange oscillating movement.
A Pico-8 Sized Adventure. Join Link as he fights through 3 dangerous dungeons, solves dastardly puzzles and fights deadly bosses all packed into a bite sized PNG. Bring peace to the world!
You are a star that jumps.
The battle for Eternia is in your hands! A Masters of the Universe themed Barbarian remake for Pico-8. Side with He-Man and his allies or Skeletor and his minions in this new take on the classic Barbarian sword fighting game. Battle 8 levels against increasingly difficult foes or play against a friend. You have the power!
Spin a web, catch bugs, eat 'em for points! The player controls a spider that spins a physics-y web to catch bugs that fly in from the background.
This sci-fi themed platformer is the fourth in the Laser Blast! series. Play as the advanced robot Atom Girl and progress through a platforming level, defeating enemy forces along the way. Destroy the end boss to complete Atom Girl's mission and help save her planet from evil invading forces.
In Cards with Personalities Classic, players take on the role of a humble hero trying to assemble a team of great personalities to defeat the weird bosses that roam the lands. Each turn, you will play cards from your hand to gain Gold, Attack or other effects (like converting monsters to your side). You can spend Gold to acquire new cards from your deck. Attack is used to slay monsters, which earns you Gold and other cool effects. The battlefield is always changing so you have to adapt and come up with new strategies to defeat all eight bosses!