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 fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.
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.
Help Old Ryan travel back to the past in this challenging puzzle game!
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.
A bread-and-butter platformer where Bread Man must save his home from Dr. Yogurt. Bread Man can collect sticks of butter and then shoot them out to defeat enemies or boost through the air!
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
Try to get the frogs to the top of the screen to fed, by playing cards
A sequel to Marballs, now with verticality, orbs and jump pads!
Soar to freedom in Feathered Escape, a platformer where you, as a trapped bird, navigate challenging environments, overcoming obstacles and adversaries to reclaim the open skies.
Steer your car, avoiding obstacles to gain score. "Grazing" an obstacle will increase your score multiplier. Try to beat your hi-score!
Explore a research station in this short platformer.
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.
Uchu Mega Fight has three styles for each character. Choose a system that is close to your taste and the game you are familiar with .
Inspired by the true-life events of my good friend Ryan. My first game ever; I am not a programmer and taught myself what I could of PICO-8, making this whole thing up as I went along, so I'm sure the code is very inefficient and a mess, sorry! It's a simple game and is mostly a lifetime of inside jokes, but to the general public: I hope you enjoy it anyway!
Reach the exit avoiding enemies chasing you in turn based system!
A difficult platform game, prove you are a Pumpking!
Train Journey is a 16-cartridge PICO-8 game (the maximum size) about a mysterious train to which the player is seemingly bound. Travel between stops, meet unique characters, and learn their stories. Can you free yourself and return home? Or will you ride the train forever...?
A port of Omega Race for PICO-8. Kill all enemies to advance to the next level. Use the shield to avoid enemy fire and the rotating lasers. Collect yellow coins for the bonus level.
In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.
Dodge is a fast paced reflex game. Survive as long as possible by avoiding enemies, patterns, and boost your score using various powerups to obtain the highest highscore. Customize your games by changing the game's color palette, or its gameplay settings, such as the difficulty, disabling powerups or patterns. Every gameplay setting combination has its own highscore.
Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.