
Platform, puzzle, crafting, or base building, this compilation of 20 modern retro games will provide hours of various experiences and challenges
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PicoMix by NuSan features games made by creator NuSan over a 8 years period of time. It’s a compilation of works in multiple genres, like platform, puzzle, crafting, or base building for a total of about 20 fun games and experiments, some will provide hours of interesting challenges while others can be completed in a few minutes.
All of the games were made using “fantasy console” Pico 8 with its recognizable 16-color palette, crunchy sweet 128x128 resolution pixel art and 4-channel chiptune
Thanks to the use of Zepto 8 emulator, an optional wide mode is included in some of the games to go beyond Pico 8’s usual square screen, as well as visual filters to tweak your experience (scanlines, CRT, toon, minit...)

The included games are :
P.Craft is a crafting game in which you wake up on a deserted island, and need to survive. Gather materials and build your tools. Explore the area and find a cave. Will you find a way to escape the island ?
Combo Pool is an arcade puzzle game where you throw colored marbles against each other.
If two marbles of the same color make contact, they merge and upgrade to the next color. Your lifebar diminishes with the number of balls on the field. If you lifebar is empty, you enter in a sudden death mode, and your last ball must save you by removing some balls from the field.
Combo Pool was made for Lexaloffle’s second Pico 8 game jam in 2016 in seven days and won first place, the jam theme was “Chain Reaction”
Cyclo 8 is a physics bike game, carefully drive your tiny bike to avoid falling
7 levels of increasing difficulty, 15 optional collectibles per levels, Time clock for speedruns
Deathless is possible
Cyclo 8 was NuSan's first Pico 8 game, released in 2015
Variation: regular, wide, reversed regular, reversed wide
Dig caves to redirect an inevitable rising water until you can save everyone
It's flood season, dig caves to redirect an inevitable rising water until you can save everyone
Your digging power is limited, it recharges over time, so be careful where and when you dig. At regular interval, you can save someone by sending your rescue team
This game has been made in 2022 for game jam Ludum Dare 50 in 48h, the jam theme was “Delay the Inevitable”
Organize your delivery train to provide requested products at each station
Dami and Flo are two workers on a delivery train. At each station, their job is to take input packages at the bottom and store them somewhere in the wagon so they can be easily delivered at a future train stop.
You can play with a friend in a local splitscreen mode
Dami and Flo was a gift made for two friends in 2021 during a tiny "secret santa” gamejam amongst friends
You are a cute cat! Jump around, explore and collect food
Zebulon the cat is lost in a strange place, but he has a lot of courage and curiosity quickly replaces fear as he explores and unravels the world around him.
It also helps that smelly green food is everywhere to grab!
No matter the traps and falls, Zebulon can always get back up, he will learn new tricks and reach higher and deeper places. Even death is not the end but only a slight set back and an invitation to wander further
Zebulon is a tiny 2D platformer with metroidvania mechanics where you will have to use skills and observation to awaken Zebulon's powers in a world filled with surprises and tricky environments.
Control a little demon to solve puzzles using esoteric programming
In Path of Aratron, you can send a little demon to visit Dreams. You can control the demon by placing stones on Glyphs
Each stone is part of a path and will trigger one after the other once you start the summoning ritual
Solve 25 puzzles of increasing difficulty, you will need to carefully plan ahead and reuse part of your stones, as you only have a small number of them

Build a large, automated factory chain on an isolated asteroid, sell your products and send rockets into space.
You must install miners to collect raw resources, transport them toward furnaces, and combine them in factories
The final goal is to send rockets full of robots and by doing so continue to explore the galaxy.
And many more games and experiments you can discover !
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Languages: English
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A cool compilation of projects made on Pico 8, the animation ones are ok, not much to say about them, some jam games are a bit barebones, but the rest? absolutely worth playing, very enjoyable and different from each other. Loved Zebulon (small metroidvania), P.Craft (easy to get into survival) and Flooded caves (puzzle of redirecting water), and the rest are also really good and worth checking out, very recommended. Esp: Una muy buena recopilación de proyectos hechos en Pico 8. Los que son de animaciones están bien, no hay mucho que decir de ellas, algunos juegos de jam son un poco básicos, pero el resto? tremendos, re valen la pena jugarlos, muy entretenidos y diferentes entre sí. Me encantaron Zebulon (un metroidvania chiquito), P.Craft (supervivencia facilito de entender) y Flooded caves (puzzles de redirigir el agua), y el resto también son muy buenos y vale la pena checkearlos, muy recomendados.
a ufolike!? worth it for combo pool alone
The games are all really unique and fun! Standouts for me include De-facto, P.Craft, and Path of Aratron.
J'adore PicoMix! Depuis que j'y ai joué, j'arrête pas de le relancer pour une petite partie de ceci, une run de cela, un try sur ça... Quel plaisir! Y en a pour tout le monde, avec des difficultés variées, donc on peut chill a fond ou avoir un peu plus de challenge si on le souhaite. La musique REND ZINZIN (bravo pour ça) Vraiment un plaisir, bravo NuSan !
Une compilation de jeux et d'expérimentations visuelles à explorer. Testé sur Steamdeck. Fonctionne parfaitement. Après quelques heures de jeu, un avis sur ceux qui m'ont occupé pour l'instant. Appréciant principalement les jeux basés sur l'adresse, Combo Pool et Cyclo-8 justifient à eux seuls l'achat. Cyclo-8 retranscrit les sensations de Trials (Redlynx) de manière convaincante. En y ajoutant un aspect collection de bonus qui motive à (rererere)tenter des passages épineux. Combo Pool parait simple et sous la pression on se surprend à planifier ses coups pour optimiser les placements et effectuer de belles actions. Zébulon, (disponible à la vente en séparé) m'a plu aussi, les contrôles sont agréables, et bien que le jeu soit basé sur la précision, ce n'est pas non plus trop stressant. La démo visuelle non réalisée avec Pico-8 la démo party est franchement très cool, c'est beau et impressionnant techniquement. Comme la cartouche contenant une collection de FXs. La stratégie ou les puzzles ne sont pas vraiment mon domaine de prédilection mais le format réduit des jeux me donne envie de les tester.
Ah... Smol pico8 games, full of big pixels that look good... And so many different genres! Favorites: Zebulon, P.Craft
Very well done collection of a bunch of awesome games!
Honestly a great mix of games, works great on steam deck!
Really good collection of tiny games with some interesting mechanics. At first, it's an opportunity to see in action this clever game engine which Pico-8 is, and what it is able to do (I am very surprised). The retro pixel aesthetic is unusual - and neat. The games themselves are very good, playing with physics and originality. For some of them, they had been created during the LudumDare events of these last years. Of course, there are no AAA games here with astonishing graphics and FX, but some experimental gameplay which gives us some good time. I recommend them - as all other games from this Indie Dev - NuSan. PS : Zebulon the cat is one of my best friends. For me, it's the best cartridge of this entire collection. Хорошая коллекция маленьких видеоигр с интересной механикой. Во-первых, это возможность увидеть в действии этот умный игровой движок, которым является Pico-8, и посмотрев то, что он способен сделать (я очень удивлен). Ретро-пиксельная эстетика необычна - и красива. Сами игры очень хороши, играют с физикой и оригинальностью. Некоторые из них были созданы во время событий LudumDare последних лет. Конечно, здесь нет видеоигр ААА с потрясающей графикой и эффектами, но есть экспериментальный геймплей, который дает нам возможность хорошо провести время. Я рекомендую их - как и все другие видеоигры от этого инди-разработчика - НуСан (NuSan). ПС: Кот Зебулон - один из моих самых лучших друзей. По-моему мнению, это лучший картридж из всей этой коллекции. Très bonne collection de petits jeux avec des mécaniques intéressantes. C'est d'abord l'occasion de voir en action ce moteur de jeu astucieux qu'est Pico-8, et ce qu'il est capable de faire (j'en suis très surpris). L'esthétique rétro des pixels est inhabituelle - et soignée. Les jeux en eux-mêmes sont très bons, jouant avec la physique et l'originalité. Pour certains d'entre eux, ils avaient été créés lors des événements LudumDare de ces dernières années. Bien sûr, il n'y a pas de jeux AAA ici avec des graphismes et des effets spéciaux époustouflants, mais un gameplay expérimental qui nous fait passer un bon moment. Je les recommande - comme tous les autres jeux de ce développeur indépendant - NuSan. PS : Zebulon le chat est l'un de mes meilleurs amis. Pour moi, c'est la meilleure cartouche de toute cette collection.
It's a great little collection of minigames made in the Pico-8 engine. Many different genres, many strange experiments, and some bonafide classics in here like Combo Pool. Anyone who's spent more than a little time in retro worlds like UFO 50 will feel right at home in PicoMix.
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