Two completely different games called Piece by Piece are coming to Nintendo Switch on the same day — and the mix-up has become one of the most heartwarming stories of the year in the indie world.
Piece by Piece, Gamkat's cozy game in which the player repairs woodland animals' belongings in grandpa's workshop, launched on Steam in March 2026 from publisher No More Robots. Two days later, a completely different Piece by Piece arrived on the same store: a puzzle platformer from Neon Polygons in which the player connects and disconnects jigsaw pieces to clear 100 levels.
Two games, one name, the same date
Rather than fight over the name, the two studios took the coincidence in stride and released a joint bundle on Steam. The story gained a new chapter when No More Robots decided to bring its Piece by Piece to Switch and found out Neon Polygons could not afford to do the same with theirs.
“I heard from the dev that they couldn't afford to bring their game to Switch. So I signed their game and now we're launching both,” wrote Mike Rose, founder of No More Robots, on Bluesky, when announcing the news on November 11.
Prices and pre-orders on Switch
Both games arrive on the Nintendo Switch eShop on November 25, 2026, separately or in the Piece by Piece Double Bundle. Gamkat's Piece by Piece costs $11.99, Neon Polygons' costs $12.99, and the bundle with both costs $20.99 — all discounted until December 2. Both are already available for pre-order on the eShop.
Why Nintendo 'hated it'
The paperwork, according to Rose, was not simple: Nintendo's certification team repeatedly asked why there were two games with the same name, from the same publisher, with the same release date. “And yes, Nintendo have ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS,” the executive joked. In Japan, according to Automaton, the store lists one of the games in katakana and the other in Latin letters to tell them apart.
Image credit: official Piece by Piece artwork, released by No More Robots.
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Sources: Video Games Chronicle; Nintendo Life; Kotaku; GameSpot.
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