Chrono Raiders

A time-travel rescue roguelite for PICO‑8.

Play full screen (best on phones, with touch controls)

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How to play

  • Your raiders are your lives. Send them in one at a time.
  • Clear a level: get everyone still standing through the glowing door, or beat every enemy.
  • Grow your team: free the caged raider and walk them out the door.
  • A fallen raider can be carried home. Otherwise they're gone for the run.
  • Every raider has a job. Pick the right one for the room.
  • Reach level 10 to restore the timeline, then keep going for a high score.

Controls

ArrowsMove. Between raiders, left and right browse your team
XSend a ready raider in, attack
ZSwap with the raider you're rescuing
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 through 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, and in Pocket8 on iPhone.

Download the cart

Move it to your phone with AirDrop or Files, not Photos or Messages: those recompress images and break the cart.