I've read a lot about different clones, ports and sequels of DOS original-themed Lemmings games, of course with their patches and editor tools. But somehow I wonder why, for me personally anyway, that the DOS port compatibility is still only what excites me the most. Namely, how excited I was with Namida's LemSet and LemMain DOS-compatible editors as opposed to NeoLemmix or DOS 3D Lemmings Editor. So I came up with a breakdown:


NeoLemmix/Lix:

[y] 1 - Original gameplay with addictive graphics
[y] 2 - Highest customization amount
[n] 3 - Original antique scent
[n] 4 - Requires computer knowledge to run


AMIGA Lemmings:

[y] 1 - Original gameplay with addictive graphics
[n] 2 - Highest customization amount
[y] 3 - Original antique scent
[y] 4 - Requires computer knowledge to run


DOS Lemmings:

[y] 1 - Original gameplay with addictive graphics
[y] 2 - Highest customization amount
[y] 3 - Original antique scent
[y] 4 - Requires computer knowledge to run


DOS 3D Lemmings/Lemmings 3/Lemmings 2:

[n] 1 - Original gameplay with addictive graphics
[y] 2 - Highest customization amount
[y] 3 - Original antique scent
[y] 4 - Requires computer knowledge to run

The most obscure thing on the iceberg that I recognize is the japanese lemming nudity, which isn't nearly as scandalous as it sounds!

I don't recognize anything past the 6 layer. I'm really curious what so many of these could be referring to.

Thank you for the reply! I'm less familiar with PICO-8 so I wasn't aware (though I have friends who are big nerds about it).

I'll definitely take my time running through the levels in this port. Good food for my Lemmings cravings, lol.

Thanks so much for the kind words! Really fun to read your comments and see what stood out to you
As for the player 2 controls: those are basically the built-in PICO-8 keyboard controls itself, so there isn't any extra meaning behind them in this case.

This is such a cute project! Giving it a try myself, I see some of the level solutions have been altered a bit (tried my favorite level, It's Hero Time, and was caught off guard by things being different), but it's fun and refreshing. I also see a lot of levels I don't quite recognize, but considering a lot of the lemmings ports have unique levels, I assume that these levels are from ports I'm unfamiliar with. If they're fully original, then that's super cool!

Speaking of ports, I see that this project takes a lot of cues from the SNES port of lemmings. I grew up playing that a lot, so that put a big smile on my face. The music conversions are all very cute and the minimalistic pixel art works real nice. I also appreciate the way the game tracks your progress while on the level select, it's very effective while taking up very little UI space. Well done!

Not being able to select or assign skills while paused also makes this very hard--you really have to act fast!


I noticed that there are both player 1 and player 2 controls in this release, yet no 2 player levels. What's the purpose of player 2?

I don't personally find it very necessary. The replay feature already lightens the weight of most execution-based mistakes. It's really slow on longer levels, yeah, but I'd rather have a faster speed up button than a rewind.

I've put a full longplay of my PICO-8 version of Lemmings online, showing all 100 levels and their solutions.
I'd still encourage everyone to try figuring the levels out themselves first, or just move on to another level and come back later if you get stuck. But since I've had quite a few questions from people who got stuck, or even wondered whether certain levels were possible, I thought it would be useful to have a complete longplay available.


Have fun, and good luck saving those lemmings!

Hi all! 👋
I've put a full longplay of my PICO-8 version of Lemmings online, showing all 100 levels and their solutions.
I'd still encourage everyone to try figuring the levels out themselves first, or just move on to another level and come back later if you get stuck. But since I've had quite a few questions from people who got stuck, or even wondered whether certain levels were possible, I thought it would be useful to have a complete longplay available.


If you haven't tried the game yet, you can find it here on itch :
https://buzzard1337.itch.io/lemmings

Have fun, and good luck saving those lemmings!

Good job you had viewers watching your stream to say "actually you had to save 20/20" 

IIRC isn't there a jingle that plays in level when you reach the goal save requirement? Shouldn't that suffice?

Quote from: WillLem on August 24, 2026, 02:27:44 AMDid I miss something? We're not talking about timed bombers here, we're talking about framestepping. The original point stands: a lot of L1 levels feature challenges related to general timing and crowd control, which are rendered trivial by the ability to framestep.

Right. I mentioned timed bombers specifically because those are the clearest example where the entire level is trivialised. Other than that, I can think of specific activities in levels that become not an issue any more (such as precisely placing a miner so that it outputs where the crowd can climb into the tunnel), but those levels still have puzzle aspects. I guess there are levels like "The Crossroads" that are are entirely an execution challenge, but still a small minority of the levels in the game.