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PICO-8

PICO-8 is a fantasy console powered by Lua. Games are distributed as cartridges which double as PNG  images. 

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Side Scroller

Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or jumping from left to right. Often includes platforming elements and side-view perspectives.

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Top ratedmade with PICO-8 tagged Side Scroller (37 results)

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A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(112 total ratings)
Action
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Years after the horde have claimed Earth's surface, they find their way into Bunker 4103.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(70 total ratings)
Platformer
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Parkour platforming as a shinobi tortoise
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Platformer
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Collect stardust to build your own constellation!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
1980s-style arcade shooter. It's like a turbo-speed Defender with a shield.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Action
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Help Max the Sax make his way in the cutthroat world of underground jazz.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Action
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the more you have, the worse it is
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
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An 8-bit Viking Rampage!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Action
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A "de-make" of Alex Kidd in 64x64! Created within Pico-8's limitations.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Platformer
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Climb the tower to shut down the signal! A short platformer with simple combat.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Platformer
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Explore a lush alien world on foot or by spaceship.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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I recreated the Google Dinosaur game in pico-8.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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You can only go up from here
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Action
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299 characters of source code
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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PICO-8 platformer with heavy focus on using gliding to your advantage
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Platformer
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2D Endless runner
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
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A silly platformer where you have to adapt to some crazy penalties.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Platformer
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Side-scrolling bullet-time bullet-hell action
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
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A PICO-8 side scrolling hack n' slash inspired by Rastan.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Platformer
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Battle on the shores of the Styx to pay the ferryman's toll
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Action
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Save Tokyo from an onslaught of baddies as Sailor V
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Action
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A platformer about joining blocks together
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Platformer
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Pump the coin into the stratosphere and beyond!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
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Inspired by the worlds of Roger Dean
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
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Jump, run, etc.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
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singing in space
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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You wake up on an empty train. None of its stops are your own. How will you get home...?
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Platformer
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Rescue All Hostages!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Shooter
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Spreading kindness in a withered world
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
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Bend gravity, shoot to kill
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
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銈€偗銈枫儳銉炽偛銉笺儬
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
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A space shooter where you control two ships at once.
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
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A Pico-8 demake of Eggware.xyz's Nova Zone
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Shooter
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Save your brother from the Doppelganger!
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
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An accurate depiction of what the world will be like in the year 3150
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Action
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