Johan Peitz

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

Gameplay Trailer

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

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

Trailer

Fletch

Speedcat is a tiny 2D platformer where you play as a cat trying to pick up all 32 Speedcoins! Run, jump, and use the environment to navigate your way through the map as quickly as possible. Developed on PICO-8 by Fletch, the game is delightfully small and easy to pick up, with an estimated completion time in under an hour.

Speedcat

PAK-9

Pico World Race is a fast-paced racing game for PICO-8. Get in your supercar and take a trip around the world, testing your driving skills on challenging circuits against a host of opponents.

Pico World Race

Gameplay Video

To a Starling is an indie fantasy platformer. Use your teleportation abilities to whirl through the rocky wastes and to find brighter stars.

To a Starling

Extar

In Sub-Uber-Marine you are a sub-aquatic taxi driver. Deep-sea divers need your help getting around the ocean!
•Three different game modes: Arcade, Day Shift and Night Shift. In Arcade mode, complete as many fares as you can, each fare adds more time, like a certain taxi-based game by a very litigious company. In Day Shift, complete as many fares as you can in 8 minutes. In Night Shift, there are 20 divers scattered about the ocean, complete the fares as fast as possible.

Sub-Uber-Marine

FlyingSmog

A demake of the first world of the original Plants vs. Zombies. 10 levels, 8 different plants, 5 different zombies, 3 complete songs!

Pico Zombie Garden

In this game you play as a monkey who LOVES BANANAS! As all monkeys he's willing to solve outrageous puzzles to get some bananas.

Monkey Bananza

Maddy Thorson

Noel Berry

Lena Raine

A Pico-8 platformer about hiking around a mountain, made in three days for Celeste's third anniversary.

Celeste Classic 2: Lani's Trek

Mass Industries

Journey from the Upper Atmosphere through futuristic dystopian cyberscapes, as a Rain Drop.

Rain Drop

Paranoid Cactus

freds72

Mars base, Union Aerospace Corporation experiments opened a portal to Hell. You appear to be the last human, fight your way out!

Beaming up the virtual feed from Mars takes about 20s, be patient while loading the battle simulator soldier.
If experiencing slowdowns, prefer desktop browser or beefy mobile.

Poom

Josiah Winslow

A port of Kian Bashiri's flash game of the same name.

You Have to Burn the Rope

A short atmospheric platformer with metroidvania elements made in 10 days as a game jam entry for RNDGAME 2020.

UFO Swamp Odyssey

A simple tennis game for PICO-8. Play against AI or with up to 4 players in local multiplayer.

Pico Tennis

tesselode

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

Sarah and the Lonely Key

Krystian Majewski

Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns is a puzzle game about pastries. The goal is to help Mai-Chan serve her sweet buns to customers at her bakery.

Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns

Matthew Watson

A Metroidvania without an interconnected world or character upgrades.

Allocation

Jay Cobs

The door is locked. You'll have to explore a dangerous dungeon full of traps and monsters and find 6 lost gems to open the door and Get Out!

Get Out of this Dungeon

Haunt Pun

An aquatic action game. Swim sword first into the deep to destroy the evil at the heart of the ocean.

Swordfish

Flytrap Studios

A tiny metroidvania platformer where you play as a cube. You gain more and more abilities as you progress. There are multiple environments, some collectibles, and you can find a boss fight at the end.

Metrocubevania

NuSan

Combo Pool is a game made using PICO-8, and the winning entry to p8jam2. It's a game where you throw colored marbles against each other. If two marbles of the same color make contact, they merge and upgrade to the next color. Your lifebar diminish with the number of balls on the field. If you lifebar is empty, you enter in a sudden death mode, and your last ball must save you by removing some balls.

Combo Pool

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

Celeste Classic

Josh Millard

Lexaloffle Games

Spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made.

Pico 8 Browser Games