PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.

A curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more

• UpdatedMar 6, 2025

The quadplay✜ fantasy console

• UpdatedApr 19, 2025
• JavaScript

PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D. Chat:https://discord.gg/jGEMUse6RM

• UpdatedOct 24, 2024
• Lua

A Pico-8 player/emulator for console homebrew

• UpdatedMar 6, 2025
• C++

A PICO-8 demake of the SCUMM engine that powered most of the classic LucasArts adventure games, such as Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion.

• UpdatedAug 26, 2024
• Lua

A Pico8 clone in Rust.

• UpdatedJun 4, 2024
• Rust

tac08 is an an emulation of the runtime part of the Pico-8 fantasy console. It takes a .p8 (text format) pico-8 cart file and runs it as closely posible

• UpdatedJan 12, 2024
• C

Pico-8 Reimplementation in Love2D

• UpdatedAug 31, 2018
• Lua

A programming tool that replaces the lua code in pico-8 cartridges (p8) with the code you write in P8Coder.

• UpdatedJul 27, 2021
• C#

Minima is an homage to the 8-bit Ultima games (especially Ultima II - Ultima V) written in the PICO-8 environment.

• UpdatedFeb 19, 2022
• Lua

A small library of tweening/easing functions for use in the PICO-8 fantasy console, inspired by Robert Penner's easing functions.

• UpdatedMar 25, 2020
• Lua

🧩 A Lua fork that supports PICO-8 syntax extensions and zero-based tables, part of ZEPTO-8

• UpdatedNov 14, 2024
• C

Midi to PICO-8 converter

• UpdatedJan 17, 2020
• Lua

PICO-8 Wrapper for the TIC-80

• UpdatedMay 7, 2020
• Lua

A tiny scene-entity-component library created for the PICO-8 fantasty console.

• UpdatedJan 5, 2019
• Lua

🕹️ A game starter template for Pico-8 developers!

• UpdatedOct 21, 2018
• Lua

A platformer sample written for Pico-8, includes slopes and jump buffering

• UpdatedNov 1, 2019
• Lua

pico8 powered os for the pex console

• UpdatedApr 16, 2025
• Lua

Custom HTML template for PICO-8 and mobile devices.

• UpdatedOct 23, 2020
• JavaScript

The retro game development engine for Go, inspired by Pico-8 and powered by Ebitengine.

• UpdatedApr 1, 2024
• Go