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3 Free Pixel Tile Packs for 2D Games (16 16, 8-Color Palettes)

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3 Free Pixel Tile Packs for 2D Games (16×16, 8-Color Palettes)

Forest, Dungeon, and Winter Forest — ready to drop into your engine.

I spent the last few weeks building a small catalog of pixel art tools and assets for 2D game developers. Three of the most useful things I made are tile packs — small, focused 16×16 pixel sets that you can import directly into Godot, Unity, Phaser, Pygame, or any engine that handles PNG sprites.

They're free. Here's what's in each one.

🌲 Forest Tile Pack

The most-downloaded pack so far (5 downloads, 12 page views — real people actually using these).

What's in it:

  • Ground tiles: grass, dirt, path, moss, packed earth
  • Water: still pond, flowing stream, shallow bank
  • Vegetation: bushes, tall grass, low shrubbery
  • Paths & terrain: dirt road, stone path, transition tiles
  • Night variant palette for dark scenes

Specs: 256×192 px sheet, 16×16 tiles, 8-color palette + 8-color night variant, PNG with transparent background.

Download: https://launchtower.itch.io/forest-tile-pack

🏰 Dungeon Tile Pack

For roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, and dark-fantasy games.

What's in it:

  • Floor: stone, cracked stone, mossy stone, blood-stained
  • Walls: rough stone, brick, rubble (4 directional variants)
  • Props: torches, barrels, crates, bones, debris
  • Hazards: lava, spikes, poison pools
  • Torchlit warm variant for lit scenes

Specs: 256×192 px sheet, 16×16 tiles, 8-color palette + 8-color torchlit variant, PNG with transparent background.

Download: https://launchtower.itch.io/dungeon-tile-pack

❄️ Winter Forest Tile Pack

Cold, atmospheric winter scenes.

What's in it:

  • Snow ground: fresh snow, packed snow, snow-covered dirt
  • Ice & water: frozen lake, cracked ice, frozen stream
  • Evergreens: pine, spruce, snow-laden branches
  • Props: snowdrifts, frozen logs, bare winter trees
  • Twilight variant for dusk/night scenes

Specs: 256×192 px sheet, 16×16 tiles, 8-color palette + 8-color twilight variant, PNG with transparent background.

Download: https://launchtower.itch.io/winter-forest-tile-pack

How to Use Them

  1. Download the PNG sheet
  2. Import into your engine
  3. Slice at 16×16 to get individual tiles
  4. Swap to the variant palette for alternate lighting

That's it. No plugin, no conversion, no fuss.

Live Preview

See all three packs side-by-side at 1× and 4× zoom:
https://pennypenguinapp-beep.github.io/launchtower-tile-variations/

License

Free for personal and commercial use. No attribution required, though it's appreciated.

More from LaunchTower

I've built 60+ free browser tools for pixel artists and game developers — palette extractors, sprite sheet slicers, tilemap editors, dither generators, and more. Browse the full catalog:
https://pennypenguinapp-beep.github.io/

Built by LaunchTower. All assets are original work. If you use these in a game, I'd love to hear about it.

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