After 10 long years of Pico Park using colourful little guys to rip apart friendship groups, the developer TecoPark has accidentally turned off monetisation on the classic edition, making it permanently free-to-play.

"I was planning to switch to a paid plan after updating the online support, but I forgot that once you switch from paid to free, I can never go back to paid," TecoPark says in a Steam blog post (via GamesRadar ). "If you enjoy playing this free version, be sure to try the series (Pico Park, Pico Park 2)."

It's quite the unfortunate blunder, and my heart goes out to the dev for accidentally backing themself into this corner. Although the good news is that the more recent version of Pico Park is still $5 (£49), and Pico Park 2 is $9 (£7.49), so there is still some monetisation

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