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.
When hordes of Youkai threaten the world, the Tanukis send a messenger to choose human girls to receive magical powers to defend humanity. They are known as SAKURA STARS. This is a horizontal shmup made on Pico-8, a retro fantasy console with purposeful limitations to simulate an 8-bit era console.
Cactus blocks are falling for some reason. You, a little frog named frog, have to jump and dodge out of their way. Set them up in lines (Tetris style) in order to clear them off of your land.
You wake up in the middle of a spooky town trying to find your way back home. Help the citizens of this weird town and they will open paths for you.
A juicy remake of Breakout/Arkanoid with 15 levels and a high-score list.
Petal Quest is a short PICO-8 game of discovery with light puzzles.
A tower climbing challenge taking influence from classic game romhacks- 32 screens of tightly packed high-stakes precision platforming, where any fall could result in a devastating domino effect that erases your progress.
P.Craft is a crafting game made using Pico 8. You wake up on a deserted island, and you have to survive. Gather materials and build your tools. Explore the area and find a cave. Will you find a way to escape the island ?
It's a Pico-8 Battle Royale! Well sort of anyway... Thrown on to a big island chock full of weapons, it's every man/cat/alien for themselves! Play either you vs 19 others or watch as 20 AI controlled opponents duke it out amongst themselves.
Colette the mouse runs her own fromagerie after working years as an affineur for other restaurants. But it's a big world for a small mouse, and she's got to make a name for herself. She wants to curate the best cheese in the world. Will her cheese be CHEDDAR than the rest? Or will it BRIE no GOUDA?
Use your solitaire skills to assemble sweet combos and defeat the dungeon's monsters. Grab treasure and spend it on powerful, synergistic abilities. Manage both your own resources and the demon's patience to hopefully survive the ordeal.
A simple, cute retro version of classic Chess made in Pico-8. Full implementation of the Chess rules with a juicy interface and some basic AI to play against.
Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.
Sokocode is a programming sokoban "Zach-Like" where you take on the role of an intern at the newest box-centered enterprise, BoxTopic.
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.
Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land. Transport passengers to their destination. Watch the world go by. Listen to chilled out chiptune music.
A PICO-8 demake of the classic Konami arcade game Time Pilot (1982).
Dusk Child is an adventure-platformer about a young archaeologist looking for her home.
a 8bit Space shooter in Pico 8