{"id":52745,"date":"2025-10-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=52745"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:04:55","slug":"japanese-indie-hit-pico-park-classic-edition-accidentally-becomes-permanently-free-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-indie-hit-pico-park-classic-edition-accidentally-becomes-permanently-free-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese indie hit Pico Park: Classic Edition accidentally becomes permanently free on Steam\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pico Park<\/strong> creator and Tecopark CEO Shunsuke Miyake announced that Pico Park: Classic Edition (the game&#8217;s original <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/461040\/PICO_PARKClassic_Edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a> version that launched in 2016) is free to play and keep forever. The base edition, simply titled \u201cPico Park,\u201d for Steam and Nintendo Switch is still available for purchase.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PICO PARK: Classic Edition (2016) is permanently free!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MVs2BKQPeP\">https:\/\/t.co\/MVs2BKQPeP<\/a><br><br>I forgot that once you switch from paid to free, I can never go back to paid!<br><br>If you enjoy playing this free version, be sure to try the series too.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PICOPARK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PICOPARK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7oonKtRL6\">pic.twitter.com\/A7oonKtRL6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; PICO PARK \/ \u30d4\u30b3\u30d1\u30fc\u30af (@picoparkgame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/picoparkgame\/status\/1974689547046072471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Miyake\u2019s decision to make Pico Park: Classic Edition wasn\u2019t an intentional one. He wanted to make the game free for a limited time, but forgot that switching a title\u2019s status from \u201cpaid\u201d to free\u201d on Steam is irreversible.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">Steam\u304b\u3089\u300c\u304a\u524d\u4e00\u5ea62021\u5e74\u306b\u7121\u6599\u3057\u3066\u308b\u3084\u3093\u3002\u6709\u6599\u623b\u3059\u306e\u7121\u7406\u3084\u3067\u3002\u7121\u6599\u3059\u308b\u6642\u540c\u610f\u3057\u3066\u308b\u3067\u300d\u3063\u3066\u9023\u7d61\u6765\u305f\u6642\u306f\u3082\u3046\u7b11\u3046\u3057\u304b\u306a\u3044\u3088\u306d\ud83d\ude02<br><br>\u3068\u3044\u3046\u3053\u3068\u3067\u7121\u6599\u7248PICO PARK\u3068\u3057\u3066\u3088\u308d\u3057\u304f\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3057\u307e\u3059\uff01\u51f9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wDAdpR30SZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/wDAdpR30SZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shunsuke Miyake | TECO | TECOPARK Inc. (@teco_park) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teco_park\/status\/1974686893934870679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> When I got a message from Steam saying, &#8220;Hey, you already made it free once in 2021. You can&#8217;t go back to paid. You agreed to it when you made it free,&#8221; all I could do was laugh. So, please enjoy the free version of Pico Park!<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the developer, Pico Park: Classic Edition\u2019s status as a free game on Steam cannot be reversed since this is the second time it was made free (the first was in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20211011-3784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when the base Pico Park was released<\/a> on the platform).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miyake doesn\u2019t seem too distressed by the incident and is happy that more people will get to play his game. Pico Park: Classic Edition continues to receive free updates alongside Pico Park and Pico Park 2. Tecopark highly encourages those who enjoy the free version to try out the other Pico Park games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After forgetting about Valve&#8217;s platform rules, Shunsuke Miyake has accidentally made Pico Park: Classic Edition permanently free on Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":52748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-52745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Japanese indie hit Pico Park: Classic Edition accidentally becomes permanently free on Steam\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After forgetting about Valve&#039;s platform rules, Shunsuke Miyake has accidentally made Pico Park: Classic Edition permanently free on Steam.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-indie-hit-pico-park-classic-edition-accidentally-becomes-permanently-free-on-steam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Japanese indie hit Pico Park: Classic Edition accidentally becomes permanently free on Steam\u00a0 - 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