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Wacky Painter by Rajcsányi László is a retro action game made with GB Studio.

In this game, you are a paintbrush and must paint around all the boxes to complete the grid. To stop you, there are 1-3 monsters which will make their way around the grid. If you hit the monster you will lose one of your lives and you only have three lives. As the game continues, it speeds up, making it more difficult. A presentation can be opened from the game, in which the basic elements are explained. It is an addictive game for wacky players.​

Dimmet by punkweight is an endless first-person dungeon-crawler made with PICO-8.

In this game, you find yourself in a seemingly endless dungeon. You are lost and have an urge to just keep going deeper. As you go deeper, you start to encounter ghosts, skeletons, and other monsters. You can collect gold as it can be used to buy health, weapon upgrades, and special items. When you are in a combat you must choose to block or attack. After your turn, the enemy will attack. The enemies’ health and hit chance will increase after every shop. You can also use special items. The special items list includes:

• ‘Run’ allows you to escape an encounter.

• ‘Defence’ gives you an armour and will protect you from the next hit.

• ‘Bomb’ will harm the enemy.

• ‘Full heal’ will give you full health.

When you die, your run will be over and you must start again from room 1.​

Thinblood by Diamond_Blast_XL is a spooky puzzle game made with PICO-8.

In this game, you play as a Vampire who pushes other Vampire Hunters into spikes in small puzzle-like levels. However, you must be careful as the Hunter’s blood is deadly to you. When you push the vampires, you should be careful that you don’t push them too far off the wall or they’ll get stuck in the croner and you’ll have to reboot the game again.

Glof by stadam is a survival horror game made with PICO-8.

Your spaceship has crash-landed on a dark and mysterious world where you have no other choice and are forced to bail. You have been stranded many miles from the crash-site. The thing is, you are clearly not alone. You need to get to the downed ship and repair it before IT gets to you! ​

Fishing in the Forest by LihzardMan is a survival action game made with PICO-8.

The story of the game follows a fisherman who is you. You are alone, fishing in the woods, but are you truly alone? Watch out for the lake monsters who will instantly attack you from nowhere. You have a gun, so shoot them whenever they try to attack you. Cover your main goal, retrieve 10 fish to win!

Hand Repair Shop by Martin Cirice is a cyberpunk puzzle game made with PICO-8. The status of the game is still in development and we may get to see further process work in the game.

Are you ready to repair some hands? In this game you will try to find the broken chip in cyberarms’ circuits and to find the chip, you have two tools: a voltmeter and a clamp. The voltmeter have two probes.

• The red one delivers electricity in the circuit.
• The black one detects the electricity.
• Normal chips conduct electricity. Broken chips don’t.

You can use the voltmeter to check if chips conduct electricity to determine if they are broken or not. When you have identified the broken chip, use the clamp to pick it. The author has planted a ‘debug mode’ in the pause menu, where you can cheat a bit and see if the electricity is flowing in the cables. This mode is only designed to see how the game works better.​

Outer Space by Bitware is an action indie game made with PICO-8.

Your main goal in the game is to navigate across enemy alien lines in order to reach and defeat the enemy overlord. Explore the screen and shoot enemies to defeat them and earn points. Collect the green hearts. Five of them will grant you an extra life. While you have green hearts, you can use your ships’ special ability by pressing the (X) special power button. So better hurry up hero, humanity depends on you!​

Pikobones by luistoledo is a puzzle board game made with PICO-8. It is a remake of the Knucklebones’s Cult of the lamb dice minigame. The game is still in its last stages of futher development.

This game focuses on dice rolling and you can push your luck in a turn-base dice game against spooky opponents. With chilling theme, versus mode, pratice and watch mode makes it all more interesting. You will never get bored in the nightly woods again. So up for a challenge?​

Tonic Solace by Alex Roe is an arcade shooter game made with PICO-8.

The goal of the game is to shoot and shoot till you can. It’s a fast-paced game and hard to control sometimes, but if you are an expert, it’s a piece of cake. On the screen, you’ll witness loads of enemy ships shooting and crawling at you. Avoid their bullets as much as you can or else you’ll fail your mission and die from the third bullet. Your weapon 1 is a standard shot, weapon 2 is a flamethrower and weapon 3 is a homing shot.​

Pico-Chicken by Bonbon08 is an adventure game made with PICO-8.

The goal of the game is to carry about your little chicken because if you don’t do this your chicken will die after 1 minute and when the chicken dies your game will be over. So better keep your focus on the chicken.