Changelog

NEW

• New games: Boba, Rolly, and seven from Krystman — Porklike, Breakout Hero, Pico Checkmate, Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns, Cattle Crisis, Cherry Bomb and High Stakes.
• Bluetooth controllers on the watch (experimental). Pair a game controller right from the watch, then navigate the launcher and menus with the d-pad and play with real buttons. Whether input works depends on your watch allowing controllers — confirmed on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, others may vary.

FIXED

• (Watch) Deleting a game from your library now jumps to a neighbouring game instead of leaving an empty space.
• (Watch) The "Receiving…" animation while games arrive now plays once for the whole batch — and stays up long enough to see — instead of flickering for each file.
• (Watch) Settings now fit the smallest round screens — labels and controls are no longer clipped, and the text scales to stay readable at large system font sizes.
• Fixed a game where the player's sprite could get stuck flashing solid red after taking damage.

NEW

• New games: Spaceman 8 and Worm Nom Nom.
• Pixl8 on your watch. Full Wear OS support — your PICO-8 library on Samsung Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch and other Wear OS watches.
• Send games to your watch. Pick carts on the phone and send them over Bluetooth — multi-cart games pull their extra parts on demand.
• Browse on your wrist. A coverflow launcher — spin through your games with the rotating bezel or crown and tap the front one to play.
• Tilt or tap to pause, and resize the square game to sit comfortably inside the round screen.
• Quick-launch Tile. Your recently played games, one tap from the watch face.
• Pro on the watch. Unlock right on the watch, or a purchase you already made on the phone carries over automatically.

CHANGED

• Auto-save on exit now also saves when you pick Quit from the pause menu — not only when the app is backgrounded — so quitting keeps your progress (phone and watch).

FIXED

• (Watch) Featured games that load extra level data now start promptly instead of stalling on a black screen.
• (Watch) Lower battery use — a game stops running while the screen is off, and motion sensing is lighter.

NEW

• New games: Cryomancer, Oblivion Eve, No-No, No-No, YES! and Callisto.
• Gift-wrapped games. New games arrive wrapped up in your library. Tap once to unwrap them — ribbon, jingle and all — then play.
• Remap your controller. Put any action on the button you want, including moving the pause menu wherever feels natural.
• Rename games. Give any cart your own title — it shows up and sorts that way everywhere, and you can switch back any time.
• Move & resize the screen. Reposition and zoom the game screen and the on-screen buttons to fit your device, per orientation.
• App sound toggle. Turn the launcher sounds (like the unwrap jingle) on or off. Never affects in-game audio.
• POOM now runs — the PICO-8 first-person shooter, with its keyboard and two-player controls.
• Twin-stick controls. The right stick acts as a second player, for games that use both at once.

CHANGED

• Your library now sorts by the title you actually see, not the hidden file name.

FIXED

• Music no longer restarts when lots of sound effects fire at once (like the explosions in Birds with Guns).
• Sound now follows your output device — plug in a Bluetooth headset or USB adapter mid-game and the audio keeps playing.
• Games with their own pause menu (like POOM) behave correctly: the first press opens the game's menu, the second opens Pixl8's.
• Tidied up a batch of game-specific quirks, including From Rust to Ash, snekburd, void_protocol and Linecraft.

• A native PICO-8 player for Android, tuned to match the real console.
• A library with curated featured games plus your own carts, favourites, recents and search.
• Customizable touch controls and gamepad support, at any screen size.
• Low-latency audio.
• Pro extras: save states, a step-by-step debugger, and an input recorder.
• Back up and restore your saves, screenshots and recordings.
• Open PICO-8 game links from the Lexaloffle community straight into Pixl8.