Choose one - Best PICO-8 Games / Curated / my itch.io

# By Game Design ⮺

# 2-Button Movement ⮺ ✌️

• BAS

# Featured Cartridges ⮺

• 25 Pico-8 Games You Need to Play
• 10 Killer Games!
• Pico Playtime
• PICO-8 Recomendations Thread
• itch.io - Top games
  • hardtail_strat collections
  • Top Strategy Games
• a nice collection (2021)
• Pico Playtime: Best of 2022
  • Downstream Dream by Ridgekuhn
  • Witchcraft TD by Unikotoast
• Top Game made with PICO-8
  • UFO Swamp odyssey - Your UFO has been knocked out of the sky by scavengers and you’re now trapped in their swampy junk yard. / Paranoid Cactus - poom - doom
  • Dank Tomb - Delve down into the dimly lit corridors of Dank Tomb and see if you can solve all its puzzles / Jakub Wasilewski
  • Zepton - a 2d voxel shmup
  • Low Mem Sky: L A S T / Paul Nicholas (Liquidream)
• Masters of the Universe
• Terra Australis
• Elite Velocity v1.0
• Solais (LD46 Compo)
• Picokaiju - You are one big monster with a thirst for destruction.
• To a Starling - platform

• Wolfenstein 3D

• Hellgineers - good music!

• Johan Peitz
  • Ascent
  • Polar-panic
• hijongpark
  • Warrior of cayuse
  • ZERKYBOT
  • Sphere Buster
  • vector games

# By Genre

# Infinite Jump

• Abysmal Ascent / r/pico8
• The Merciless Deep

# Donjon

• Porklike - a minimalistic, classic Roguelike
• Beckon the Hellspawn - Survive against hordes of relentless creatures by using your arcane powers to defeat them.
• Into Ruins - Interview with game developper on lexaloffle.
• Little Dragon Adventure
• Callisto - style Monster Hunter en 2D avec des éléments de metroidvania et de plates-formes d’action.
• Sundered Hope / r/pico8 - Can you save the world from eternal darkness? What is hope other than willingness to try?
• Mars Rescue / itchio / r/pico8 - find and rescue Martian colonists under attack by hostile alien lifeforms. / Gauntlet style

# Classic/Remake

• Duck Hunt / itch.io / r/pico8
• Galagamu
• Dinky Kong
• Pico-Man
• Nebulus - use hi-res mode - work on 0.2.4c (some texture issue on 0.2.5)
• Burgertime
• Lunar Lander: Rescue / r/pico8 - lunar lander + you need to save astronauts
• Wizards Rule - remake of Wizard of Wor
• Lemmings / itch.io / r/pico8
• Spy vs spy demake / Editor
• Detris !

# Vector Game

• Sphere - asteroid clone
• Pico Fury
• Pic Off 1.2
• Armor
• Pico Castle
• Defender

# Puzzle

• Matchy Matchy - Connect pairs ( or more ) of matching animals to solve puzzles
• MOTION●REC - puzzle with the concept of “recording and replaying movements.”
• Trichromat - RGB Sokoban like

# Cute

• Polar Panic
• I Just Wanna Land! - help this bird
• Rainmaker - walk on clouds

# Arcade

• Loot Loot Goblin / blog / r/pico8 - How much can you loot before greed becomes your downfall?
• Mini GUNN / r/pico8 - demake of our platform fighter, Samurai Gunn 2
• Nuklear Klone
• Snow! - Enjoy going down the slope, trying to beat your previous track record or freeriding skills!
• StarsWars - Be an X-Wing pilot!
• Super Contra Hot - B&W gameboy theme
• The Lair
• Lunar Lander: Rescue

# 3D

• Virtua Racing
  • Squeezing PICO-8 CPU! / From bytes to 3d

# Platformer

• Field Jump / r/pico8 - sidescrolling platformer
• LootSlime - Bounce around, explore, find loot, and uncover secrets in LootSlime!

# Shooter ⮺

Why ?

• Storming The Grandmothership
• shmups Pico 8
• Kalikan
• Steel Surge: Revolution

• # Misc

• Moonrace - Micro Machines on the moon
• X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter: Attack on the Deathstar
• Cab Ride 🚆 - drive the train
• Walker / lexaloffle / r/pico8 - A SIDE-SCROLLING BLAST FROM THE PAST Based on the original Amiga classic

# 1 vs 1

• frontline

# Adventure

• Dead Service - made using a SCUMM-8 framework by Liquidream.

# Arithmetic

• Dungeon of Numeromancy - a dungeon crawler with math-based combat.

# Cat Games ⮺ 🐱

• Two Hiking Cats Have An In Depth Discussion About Life The Universe And Everything
• Pet the cat
• Zebulon a lost cat