Sources & Editorial Policy
An independent fan resource. Sources were checked on 2026-11-12; pages are updated when official material changes.
Four kinds of evidence
The official portal (picoparkgame.com, English and Japanese) and official Sega announcement pages are primary sources for the games' identity, rosters and release framing. Store listings — Steam, the US Nintendo eShop, the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store — are primary for prices, dates, requirements and feature flags. Wikipedia is a secondary encyclopedia source, used for the PICO PARK world-set names. Achievement trackers (Steam's own global percentages, TrueAchievements) and media guides (Gamepur) are attributed secondary sources. The two Fandom wikis (pico-park.fandom.com and sonic.fandom.com) are community-edited: their claims are attributed and marked *(not yet verified)* unless an official source supports them.
How disputes are handled
When sources disagree, this wiki shows both positions instead of picking one. Current examples: PICO PARK's official date of June 8, 2019 against Steam's May 7, 2021; PICO PARK 2's official August 28, 2024 against Steam's September 12, 2024; the official three game modes against the community wiki's "five gamemodes"; Steam's sale prices against list prices on every game; the Gemdrops, Inc. developer credit that appears on Steam only; Wikipedia's "Ball park" against the wiki's "Ball game" for the same PICO PARK set; Steam naming the SONIC PICO PARK World 7 achievement LARGE PARK while TrueAchievements' Xbox list calls it BIG PARK; the official SONIC PICO PARK ESRB RP badge against the PlayStation listing's ESRB_EVERYONE field; the official site's Windows/Steam platforms against the Steam listing's macOS build; and Gamepur's pre-release article that called the Steam page "not yet available" and treated PC as Windows-only.
Numbers this site will not invent
No stage names, per-world stage counts, puzzle solutions, battle-rule names, endless-variation names, PICO PARK 2 level names, character moves, review counts, historical player peaks, wishlists, patch notes or version numbers appear without a source. The 512-player figure is a dated point-in-time sample from Steam's API, never presented as a peak. Launch-day achievement percentages are always dated and expected to drift.
Snapshot dating
All sources were read on 2026-11-12, launch day of SONIC PICO PARK. Live numbers (global achievement percentages, store prices, ratings, player counts) reflect that snapshot and will change as the games and their stores update.
Linked sources
Links below include every page this site used, most recently on 2026-11-12.
- PICO PARK Portal, official series site in English (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- PICO PARK Portal, official series site in Japanese (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- Official PICO PARK page (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- Official PICO PARK 2 page (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- Official PICO PARK merchandise page (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- Steam — PICO PARK store listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Steam — PICO PARK Soundtrack (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Steam — PICO PARK: Classic Edition store listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Steam — PICO PARK 2 store listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Steam — PICO PARK 2 Soundtrack (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Nintendo — PICO PARK Switch eShop listing (linked from the official page; read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Nintendo — PICO PARK 2 Switch eShop listing (linked from the official page; read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Wikipedia — Pico Park (read 2026-11-12) — Encyclopedia
- PICO PARK Wiki (Fandom) — World Mode, with the twelve set names and themes (read 2026-11-12) — Community wiki
- PICO PARK Wiki (Fandom) — Hello Pico Park set page (read 2026-11-12) — Community wiki
- PICO PARK Wiki (Fandom) — Pico Cat page, color list and hex codes (read 2026-11-12) — Community wiki
- PICO PARK Wiki (Fandom) — Pico Park 2 stub page (read 2026-11-12) — Community wiki
- Official SONIC PICO PARK site (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- Official Japanese SONIC PICO PARK site (read 2026-11-12) — Official site
- SONIC PICO PARK official X account — Official social
- SONIC PICO PARK official TikTok account — Official social
- PICO PARK Inc. official YouTube channel — Official channel
- SONIC PICO PARK official trailer, linked from the official site — Official trailer
- TECOPARK — developer site — Developer site
- Steam — SONIC PICO PARK store listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Steam — SONIC PICO PARK global achievement percentages (read 2026-11-12) — Official platform stats
- Steam — SONIC PICO PARK community hub — Official community hub
- Steam — GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers API for app 4304060 (point-in-time sample, 2026-11-12) — Official platform stats
- Nintendo — SONIC PICO PARK Switch eShop listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Nintendo — SONIC PICO PARK Switch 2 eShop listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- PlayStation Store — SONIC PICO PARK concept page (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Xbox Store — SONIC PICO PARK listing (read 2026-11-12) — Official store page
- Sega.jp — SONIC PICO PARK collaboration announcement, Oct 26, 2026 (roster reveals) — Official announcement
- Sega.jp — SONIC PICO PARK character reveal, Nov 2, 2026 (Espio, Charmy, Vector) — Official announcement
- Sonic Fandom — SONIC PICO PARK article (wikitext read 2026-11-12) — Community wiki
- Gamepur — Sonic Pico Park co-op and player count guide (Aleksa Stojković, Oct 26, 2026) — Media guide
- TrueAchievements — Sonic Pico Park achievements and game info (read 2026-11-12) — Achievement tracker