Did you know that once you’ve made your game free on Steam twice, it stays that way forever? Tecopark CEO Shunsuke Miyake apparently forgot, and now the company’s indie hit PICO PARK: Classic Edition is free forever on Valve’s digital distribution platform.
According to Miyake, his original intention was to make the game free for a limited time. What he had forgotten was that Steam only allows games to do this once. The company had previously offered the game for free for a limited time back in 2021 to promote the release of its Base Edition on the platform. Since Miyake had now made the Classic Edition free for a second time, the platform would not allow him to change it back.
When Steam contacted me and said, “You made it free once in 2021. We can’t make it paid again. You agreed to it when you made it free,” I could only laugh So please enjoy the free version of PICO PARK!
It’s a silly mistake, but one that Miyake has pivoted into an opportunity to promote the rest of the games in the series, which, barring a similar snafu, still cost money to own and keep. The Pico Pico Park: Base Edition is also notably not free on both Steam and the Nintendo Switch.
Pico Park is a multiplayer puzzle game for two to ten people in which players must work together to complete various puzzles. The game looks like it would be fun at a party, if you’re lucky enough to be able to scrounge together 2–10 friends (I can’t).
