PICO-8

npckc

make shaved ice for animals at the festival!
(there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)

Picogori 2025

BrightOstrich

Gravity Garden

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?

Bon Appecheese

Scale ancient castle walls and dash over deadly pits. Every leap, wall jump, and dash costs you precious health. Navigate 16 challenging levels, find the key, and reach the exit before your health runs out.

Health Ninja

Adam Saltsman

"In Dino Sort, there are, uh, dinosaurs, and, well, you have to, you know, sort them out."

A puzzle game about arranging dinosaurs around a grid. Each dinosaur has a specific ruleset that must be followed.

Dino Sort

hominum

A clone of PakuPaku — built using PICO-8, with no external sprites or assets.

It’s basically a one-button game:
Press any arrow key to flip your direction.

Eat pellets. Dodge the ghost — unless you're powered up.
Fast, focused, and minimal. Just pixels, logic, and a bit of chaos.

Made as a small learning project.

PikuPiku

Trailer

In Dust Bunny, you are a little bunny with a big job - sweep up the dust!

Dust Bunny

Pixel Rift Adventure is a fast‑paced Pico-8 roguelike dungeon crawler that blends the room‑by‑room exploration of classic Zelda titles with the procedural unpredictability and challenge of Binding of Isaac. Each floor is a freshly generated grid of interconnected rooms, packed with randomized enemies, destructible obstacles, and hidden treasures. Your hero starts modestly equipped—three hearts, basic sword reach, and no special powers—but every playthrough offers new opportunities to power up via treasure chests, vending machines, and a unique letter‑collecting mechanic.

The heart of the game lies in its letter system. Scattered throughout the dungeon are consumable letters that spell out SUBPIXEL and MATTA. Completing the former permanently extends your sword’s reach; completing the latter grants a limited‑use ranged projectile attack. Vending machines sprinkled on each level sell letters for coins you’ve hoarded, adding a strategic layer: do you spend now for a chance at a powerful upgrade, or save for health and keys?

Boss rooms punctuate your descent, each featuring a thematic “family” of bosses—wiggling slime overlords, spectral ghost generals, and subterranean plant tyrants—that grow tougher as you advance. Defeating a boss opens a portal to the next floor, and reaching level 10 without succumbing to traps or overwhelming odds crowns you the ultimate Pixel Rift champion. Tight controls, i‑frames after damage, and a reactive HUD keep you always in the action—dive in, adapt on the fly, and see how far you can go!

Pixel Rift Adventure

In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.

Prince of Prussia

In Bandit Accountancy, you sort gems using a gamepad or the arrow keys.

Bandit Accountancy

In Cave of Cards, you clear dungeons by making poker hands.

Cave of Cards

My version of the Atari's arcade game Night Driver and Dr. Reiner Foerst's Nürburgring 1.

Night Drive

In Sebastian's Quest, you have to shove gems and find the cheese.

Sebastian's Quest

A runner/platformer where play as a samurai trying to save your cat from demons. Your character runs automatically while you control your jumps and attacks.

Samurise

Jakub Wasilewski

Use your solitaire skills to assemble powerful combos and defeat the dungeon's monsters. Grab treasure and spend it to build a set of powerful, synergistic abilities to help you. Manage both your own resources and the demon's patience to hopefully survive the ordeal.

Solitomb

Rat Dreams

LokiStriker

Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!

Ex Terra

A Physics Puzzler where you build gooey structures to reach pneumatic pipes.

Super World of Goo

voidgazerBon

A fast-paced arcade-style treasure hunt set in a deep, mysterious pit full of shiny loot, deadly traps and vicious enemies.

Take control of a goblin equipped with a magical satchel and grab as much treasure as you can before running out of light.

Loot Loot Goblin

Goobers have invaded Neo-earth turning all automated robots against their creators. Stop the horde of panic bots, keep the generator safe! Keep yourself safe? No you are expendable.

Robo Panic

Samuel Pratt

Move a worm to carve the object across 17 thrilling levels!!

Woodworm

Gameplay Video

morganquirk

An isometric bird-based demake of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series.

Tiny Hawk: Pico Sk8r

Infinimoes is a space filling puzzle game (like tangrams) involving a variety of polyominoes and sometimes an infinitely repeating space.

Infinimoes

Pancelor

Select numbers that add to ten, to remove them from the board. How high can you score in just 2 minutes?

Make ten

Welcome To BulletHeck is a small rougelike game focused on randomized items and conserving energy. Energy is consumed by both shooting and sprinting and running out will cause the player to slow down for a short time. New guns and items can be discovered as you progress as well as stat upgrades that can be bought from shops.

The only objective is to reach floor 10 and fight the boss.

Welcome to Bulletheck

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.

The Bird and the Bicycle

The picket line swells as factory after factory walk out on strike. For the exploited and the oppressed of the world, this is the moment -- but time is short. The arms of the state are mobilizing to halt your advance. Can you lead the workers to victory?

A unique snake and sokoban puzzler with lots of clever mechanics in the mix.

Picket Puzzle

Discover the secrets to your brother's disappearance. Learn more about yourself and gain insights. A low rez adventure inspired by Zelda and Undertale.

Shallow End

This game was made in 2 weeks for the Acerola Jam 0. It's a puzzle game wher you have to make the withe with the rgb color in boxes and other forms.

Trichromat

SmartAlloc

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.

Oblivion Eve

Nerdy Teachers

A free sokoban-like game with RPG items and Monsters, inspired by the game Dungeon and Puzzles by Nekolyst, made in PICO-8.

Puzzles of the Paladin

YokoBoko

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.

Feathered Escape

Max Bize

Driftmania is an arcade time trial racing game. Your goal is to get the fastest possible time on each of the 15 challenging tracks

Driftmania

SPARSE//GameDev

Dodge bullets and fight off the militarized police force defending a corporate toxic sludge pipeline.

Praxis Fighter X

DonutsHunter

Uchuzine

Guide the twin cats to their childhood friend Mii-chan. A two-player cooperative game created in PICO-8.

Trust Me

spoike

This is a mouse controlled real-time inventory management game, think of it as Attache Case from Resident Evil but things are happening at the same time as you're trying organize it.

It is a demake of the original game by Alex Sian aka Shoutscion.

Jack and Casie Demake

Slumma

Blood of Vladula Jr. is a 2D platformer inspired by the platformers on the Nintendo Game Boy system. Jump, run, bonk monsters on the head, and turn into a bat, through 8 different levels, including a final boss stage. Help Count Vladula jr. regain the respect of the monster community and defeat his arch-nemesis.

Blood of Vladula Jr.

Davbo

In this 2D platformer with golf controls, you must aim, charge, then launch yourself around a dangerous abandoned power plant in order to save the worms!

Golf Escape

Barndles

Dona Vasa

A SHMUP-Survivor-Roguelike mash where you must dodge, shoot, and upgrade in order to beat the final boss. Created along the LazyDevs academy basic shmup tutorial with its own twists on the theme.

Stop to Explode

In this falling block puzzle game, position your pieces wisely to make clusters of 4+ blocks of the same color. The bigger the cluster, the more points you'll get. Most importantly, if you manage to chain cluster destructions with the fall of the blocks, you'll multiply your points.

Three different modes are available (after being unlocked), each one having a different rhythm.

Gravico

A remake of the first Five Nights At Freddy's game in PICO-8.

Phive Nights At Pico's

freds72

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.

Demi Daggers

Experience a nostalgic throwback with this Pico-8 demake of the classic iOS game Birds and Saws. Dive into the retro charm and challenge yourself as you guide a bird, skillfully avoiding menacing circular saws to rack up high scores.

Johan Peitz

Apskeppet

A casual game where it's time to tidy up the solar system. Shove planets into each other to make bigger planets. No stress, take your time. Play strategically to trigger insane combos. Earn missiles to get out of tricky situations. A totally accurate simulation of celestial bodies.

Cosmic Collapse

Gameplay Trailer

2DArray

A "Suika Game" clone for PICO-8. Drop marbles into the container - if two marbles of the same size touch each other, then they merge together to form a single larger marble, and you get some points (larger merges have larger value). If a marble comes to rest while going past the top of the container, you lose!

Marble Merger

Thomas Ricouard

A Vampire Survivors clone for PICO-8. You can level up, collect XP, increase your character stats, and more.

Grassland Survivors

Everyone's favorite Watermelon Game for PICO-8. Drop fruits and merge fruits that are alike.

Suika Game Demake

Steel Surge: Revolution is a short caravan shmup.

Steel Surge: Revolution

Lab Cat

A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.

Bun Bun Samurai

Pico Tower

After Marsho lent his game to a friend awhile back, Mo won't give it back now!
It's up to you find the Warp Stars and take it back even if force is needed.

Redash

Aktane

An update to CrossGunr:

- New Graphics and Adjusted Music
- Less slowdown, smoother gameplay
- New EX mechanic ( bubbles ) - no bar gained during EX's, will make it a bit harder but still tuned to perfection!
- Repair Locator
- Boss Healthbars
- Score differential
- 5 Scores saved on cart
- Restart Run in Menu (For when the run is forfeit..
- Reset Scores in Menu

CrossGunr D+

kittenm4ster

Pizza Panda is a fast-paced pizza-delivery platformer for the PICO-8 fantasy console. Players take on the role of a panda who drives a cartoonishly agile car, jumping around small vertically oriented cityscape-style levels in order to collect pizza and deliver it directly into the mouths of various animals who are sticking their heads out of the windows of buildings.

Each level presents the photographs of one or more animals to which the player must deliver the pizza, some of them wearing hats which the player must correctly place upon the animals' heads in order to make a valid delivery. There are also baby rats crawling on the roofs of some buildings which must be collected and delivered to their papa without letting them be eaten by cats. In order to accomplish these things, the player stacks pizzas, hats, and baby rats on the roof of the car and traverses the level, either touching or avoiding certain NPCs. Finding an efficient route through each level is encouraged through the use of a target time; if the player completes all the objectives of a level within the target time, a star is awarded for that level.

Pizza Panda

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.

Shadow King

A small metroidvania in which you delve deeper into a planet, until you reach it's bottom...

Subsurface

They say it started in a lab, but no one knows for sure. It doesn't matter anyway, you just need to survive another 10 minutes!

Outbreak

Sokocode is a programming sokoban "Zach-Like" where you take on the role of an intern at the newest box-centered enterprise, BoxTopic.

SokoCode

Tom Mulgrew

A break-neck taxi driving game. Welcome to the Whiplash Taxi Company, where our motto is "The slower you're there, the lower the fare!"

As a valued employee and taxi driver, your job is to pick up passengers and deliver them to their destination as fast as possible, by any means necessary.

Passengers are easy to spot, just look for the big red arrows over their heads.

Whiplash Taxi Co

An action puzzle game with the concept of "recording and replaying movements."

Motionrec

Kalikan is a vertically scrolling bullet hell 'shmup inspired by Dodonpachi- pushing the limits of ~virtual~ hardware . Control one of 3 1 ship(s) featuring two varied attack modes . Maintain your chain to compete for the highest scores.

Kalikan

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.

Pinfall

Alan Hazelden

30+ levels packed with cheese, what more could a mouse want?

Mouse Wants Cheese

In Porter, you play as Yug who may teleport and jump. If Yug teleports into a wall, Yug dies. If Yug jumps into spikes, Yug dies. The goal is to use Yugs teleportation and jump to get to the yellow coin in each level.

Porter

pianoman373

You’re a sky-island delivery worker delivering mail to all the nearby islands. Everything runs smoothly until the letters suddenly aren’t being delivered. Find all of the letters and deliver them to their recipients. Maybe they’ll give you something as a thank you.

Air Delivery

taxicomics

Pico Valley is a Stardew Valley demake for PICO-8.

Pico Valley

Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through various short levels, and challenge yourself to keep up the combo's.

Fallen Star

CrossGunr: Infinite is a caravan shooter, and sequel to CrossGunr, developed for PICO-8.

CrossGunr: Infinite

A short, caravan shmup. Reach for higher scores, unlock new pallets, unveil the eye!

Defender X

In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.

Re: Dream

Heracleum

A demake of Donkey Kong in PICO-8 starring Minio and Dinky Kong.

Dinky Kong

abhimonk

A short, challenging soulslike with metroidvania elements. Made in PICO 8 by Abhi Sundu. Olden Peak is a melee combat-focused metroidvania with some soulslike elements like limited healing flasks and stamina.

Olden Peak

Sokoblox is a hybrid of two classic puzzle games: Sokoban (the push puzzle) and Bloxorz (the rolling block puzzle).

Sokoblox

Send your worker ants to gather resources… amass an army of bugs to defend your queen... build your ant empire and conquer the lawn!

A PICO-8 demake of Age of Empires II.

Age of Ants

Survive against hordes of relentless creatures by using your arcane powers to defeat them. Gather their essence and use it to increase your magical prowess! Use the beacons lure them and defeat them, but be warned, the more time passes, the stronger they get.

Your mission? Survive until "It" arrives. When "it" arrives, destroy it.

Beckon the Hellspawn

MorningToast

You must find 3 magic relics to help rid the land of evil. Use the Find-O-Meter and your trusty shovel to search the forest. But if you dig up the dead you'll need to fight them off to stay alive, so pay attention to everything you unearth...it might just save your life.

Don't Dig Up the Dead

Somin

To take root Among the Stars is a short narrative platformer.

Play as Mei Hashimoto, one of the colonists send to an exoplanet to prepare it for the arrival of the rest of humanity.

Explore the colony and its surrounding flora and fauna. Talk to your fellow colonists and send a message to earth via the relay station at the top of the nearby mountain.

To Take Root Among the Stars

An open-world rpg for Pico-8, where you can catch, train, and battle with over 100 varieties of monsters!

Gameplay is performed by navigating the overworld until you encounter either a wild Eidolon or an opposing trainer, which transitions the game to battle mode. Battle mode uses turn-based mechanics across a grid to allow you to fight - until all foes are defeated!

Little Eidolons

Meep

Harvest fish daily to keep the baby penguins fed. Be careful, the fish won’t go without a fight!

Move toward a fish while adjacent to it to attack it. Mola Molas (the large fish) take two hits to capture, while everything else only needs one. Carefully plan your route in this turn-based dungeon crawler to out-maneuver the fish- how many fish can you harvest?

Adelie: Water Under the Bridge

AndiDev

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).

Shazabi and the Cantina Catacombs

Hijong Park

A demake of Japan's best selling action game Thexder in PICO-8.

Browser Games on PICO-8