Controls

• left/right: spin and drift
• z/x: float
• enter: open the pause menu (toggle clock, etc)

Land on your stem to bounce. Escape the cave to win.

Shout Outs

Shout out to Pogostuck for it's torturous movement, Abnormal Grass for its attention to surface normals, and Moss Moss for its depiction of a comfy grotto.

Tips and Tricks

Leaderboards are available in the itch build.

platformer precision pogo

A recreation of OXO (1952) — the earliest known computer game to display visuals on a video monitor.

puzzle strategy

64x64-mode, sprite sketch with some procedural snow

art sketch animation

Made this in ~2 hours to learn how to use pico 8

I think it turned out pretty well.

Try to get to the flag!

My entry for the 1k jam! Zap stuff, get points, you know the drill. Thanks to my love Bekah for coming up with a great title. Inspired by https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=195760#p

1023 compressed bytes without the cartridge tags!

1024 bytes game for pico-1k jam 2026

← ↑ ↓ → - move

Z - start

Collect items and avoid your shadows

play on itch.io

This is my first foray into development using Pico-8, I enjoyed it a lot!
I tried to give the game a couple Easter eggs and oddities, to give it a slightly different flavour from other minesweeper clones.

Controls:

Arrow Keys - movement
C - Reveal a square // Chording // Confirm
X - Toggle flag

The mouse controls are as you'd expect.
(Player 2's controls are Pico-8's defaults)

For the Name menu, you can change letters using the Up and Down keys, and move between character positions using Right and Left.

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Features:

Click on Yeller (the smiley face) in the upper right of the board, he'll give you a hint that might be useful.

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minesweeper puzzle

I made a PICO-8 adaptation of "The Sumerian Game (1964)" — one of the earliest computer strategy games, designed by Mabel Addis.

retro strategy simulation resource-management historical remake adaptation

a little ball physics/particles toy with a bit of customizability

you can open the menu with the mouse scroll wheel, where you can toggle things like the white ball (i call it the ship lol), friction, ball respawning (endless), ball respawning with velocity (auto)

there are also some visuals you can adjust, those being the screen scale, screen shake, particles, and whether or not the game unfocuses when you click off of it

since the screenshake shakes the entire window instead of just the screen inside it, there is some jank when it comes to window positioning. if the program ends up in a different spot in your tooltray than you left it, try pressing r/middle mouse to reset the balls and it should save its current position for the future

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tiny pool tinypool billiards

a 4-in-1 block game bundle including tetris, panel de pon, puyo puyo, and dr mario

controls :

overall:
1/2/3/4 - select game
scrollwheel - change screen size
m - toggle sfx
r - restart game

tetris, puyo puyo, dr mario:
ad/left&right arrowkey - move
w/up arrowkey - hard drop
s/down arrowkey - soft drop
fg/zx - rotate

panel de pon:
wasd/arrowkeys - move cursor
f/z - swap
g/x - raise

tiny blocks tinyblocks tetris panepon panel de pon puyo dr mario drmario

"press ❎ to start"
"❎ to shoot"
"⬅️⬆️➡️⬇️ to move"

shooter

survival1k

hello!

this is the game where you fight enemies, level up and uhhh.. that's it?

CONTROLS:

• LUDR - move
• Z - drink water
• X - attack

QUICK MANUAL:

• you need to drink water or you'll start to lose hp
• there's 2 types of enemies - passive ( just wander around ), and aggressive ( chase you and damage )
• as you kill more and more enemies, you'll level up, dealing even more damage
• this game is in-dev right now, i plan to add more features if i can ( 1k is not a joke :| )

TRIVIA:

• i used shrinko8 to compress the game, deobfuscated is ~2.2k. now its 1024 bytes ( PHEW... )
• you can give ideas on how could i improve the game, perhaps even do less bytes

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pico1k rpg-ish

copy of pancelor's wonderful "make ten" for my tooltray (https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=142209)

controls:

hold lmb + drag - select digits
r - reset board (or lmb on bottom screen wavy text after time's up)

m - toggle sfx

scrollwheel/arrowkeys - change screen size

maketen make ten make10 10

A recreation of Marienbad — an early Polish computer game from 1962, based on a variant of Nim.

nim puzzle board-game retro classic

Did not expect to spend so long on this.

Waveform visualizer by Colin The Newmaker:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=149602

Original track by Toby Fox all rights reserved uhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah

music deltarune cover

Just a bullet hell prototype. O-spiral, X-Barrage, Arrows-move around

Made this in 999 compressed bytes for PICO-1K Jam 2026.

Arrow keys move, X and O slow time. Get close to red circles to mine points, but don't get hit!

pico1k jam

A recreation of the original 1997 Snake cell phone game. I tried to get as close to the original as I could, right down to the menus. The only addition is adjustable speed settings. For the most authentic experience, Speed 1 closely matches the pace of the original game.

I hope you enjoy!

1997 97 snake arcade