Top rated free games not in game jams tagged 8-Bit

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Just One Boss

A boss fight against a charming opponent!

ayla~nonsense

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(508 total ratings)

Action

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Morris❤️

❤️EARLY DOVE GETS MORE LOVE❤️

CatTrigger

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(370 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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GIF

Combo Pool

A game about colliding and merging balls

NuSan

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(471 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Starboy Adventures

Your dog has been kidnapped, and that's reason enough to kill everyone.

guselect

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(169 total ratings)

Platformer

GIF

Sequence8

A music sequencing toy in PICO-8

billiam

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(152 total ratings)

Rhythm

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i had another dream about you last night

a short pixel adventure about dreams, crushes, and moving on.

caanti

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(126 total ratings)

Adventure

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Halo: Combat Devolved

A demake of the original Halo for Game Boy Color

SofaSwordsman

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(94 total ratings)

Shooter

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GIF

Mimic

Mimic animals to take their form!

sourencho

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(310 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Lily's Well

Who is calling for you at the bottom of the well?

Pureiceblue

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(143 total ratings)

Adventure

KAIMA

the world is getting eaten up... will you survive?

NomnomNami

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(373 total ratings)

Role Playing

Ghost Hospital

(A game about Anxiety)

SpitBlaze

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(144 total ratings)

Role Playing

GIF

Special Delivery

Move the box through the sorting factory.

Ismael Rodriguez

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(118 total ratings)

Platformer

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Böbl (NES)

A water-based platformer developed for the NES. Bobl ROM included

Morphcat Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(97 total ratings)

Platformer

GIF

OVERGAME ★

Funny Meta Game with Plot Twists. "The Game is a Liar"

OVERBOY ツ

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(204 total ratings)

Adventure

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Pico Driller

Drill as deep as you can, but don't get crushed!

Canari Games

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(246 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Mothkeeper

Raise a nursery of moths by farming herbs

Moth House

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(110 total ratings)

Simulation

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Shy Guy Surfing

Are you a bad enough dude to surf across the world?

LucasPucas

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(75 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

Nonsense at Nightfall

One night you can't sleep and decide to take a sleeping pill. What happens next is unexpected...

Siegfried Croes

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(221 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

The Year After

A game about life, love, loss and time

Hadrian Lin

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(130 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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The Third Shift - Demo

A Game Boy horror unlike any other

Teebowah Games

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(47 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

The Machine

A micro-society by Ben Jelter

BenJelter

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(83 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

★FROG SMASHERS★

Local Multiplayer Brawler about hitting frogs with baseball bats

raithza

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(84 total ratings)

Platformer

Mega Man X Innocent Impulse

An open world Mega Man X fangame

Solren

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(44 total ratings)

Action

UnDUNE II

A demake of "Dune 2" - in PICO-8

Paul Nicholas (Liquidream)

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(64 total ratings)

Strategy

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Pygmalion Lied

What hides in the marble when one hides from their own heart?

Isa

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(37 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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GIF

The Lair

A retro scrolling beat'em up with a dark fantasy theme.

Jakub Wasilewski

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(147 total ratings)

Action

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Lester (C64)

A brand new C64 metroidvania platform game set in a space station where security drones have gone rogue.

knifegrinder

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(34 total ratings)

Platformer

FROM BELOW - A Real NES Game!

A brand new NES game!

Matt Hughson (NES Dev)

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Pico World Race

A PICO-8 Racing Game

PAK-9

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(121 total ratings)

Racing

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Riko

Hardcore Handcrafted Puzzle Game

Spyr

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(88 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Rxcovery

Battle your way through a nightmare hospital to get enough money to pay your bill!

L.O.V.E. games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(39 total ratings)

Role Playing

EMUUROM

Nonviolent creature-scanning metroidvania

borbware

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(103 total ratings)

Platformer

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Fearsome Five (Darkwing Duck Fangame)

VillagerWerman

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Action

Kero Kero Cowboy (Demo)

A western platformer currently in development for the Game Boy Color!

MetagameMike

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(70 total ratings)

Platformer

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Tristam Island

An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers

Hugo Labrande

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Indivisible on NES

An actual NES ROM demaking Lab Zero's Indivisible

Kasumi

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Platformer

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