Chrono Raiders

A time-travel rescue roguelite for PICO‑8.

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How to play

  • Raiders are your lives. Send them in one at a time.
  • Clear a level: get everyone standing through the door, or beat every enemy.
  • Grow your team: free a caged raider and keep them with you until the level clears.
  • Lead one at a time. Walk into another to trade.
  • Fallen raiders turn to stone. Carry them home or lose them.
  • Every raider has a job. Pick the right one.
  • Beat Bigfoot at level 10 to win, then chase a high score: every level after gets longer and faster.

Controls

ArrowsMove · ← → browse team
XSend in · attack
ZSwap with your follower
P / EnterPause

Nine eras

A Jurassic level
Jurassic
A Egypt level
Egypt
A Medieval level
Medieval
A Wild West level
Wild West
A Ice Age level
Ice Age
A Moon level
Moon
A Pirate Ship level
Pirate Ship
A Japan level
Japan
A Future level
Future

Twelve raiders

Start with the Scout and the Hiker. Rescue the rest across history: a knight whose sweep beats shields, a ninja who outruns everything, an astronaut whose rocket flies over walls, and more.

Lose one and you lose what they could do. Choose who goes first.

All twelve raiders with their abilities

Take it with you

The whole game is one PICO-8 cartridge image. It runs in PICO-8, on handhelds with Fake-08, in Pocket8 on iPhone, and in Pixl8 on Android.

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