Two Games Called Piece by Piece Are Launching on Switch the Same Day — and Nintendo Hated It

Sometimes the universe hands you a story so perfectly weird you have to double-check it isn't a joke. On November 25, 2026, two completely different games — both called Piece by Piece — launch on the Nintendo Switch on the exact same day, under the same publisher. Nintendo's certification team is reportedly not thrilled.

Here's how we got here. Back in March 2026, developer Gamkat and publisher No More Robots released Piece by Piece on Steam: a cozy life sim where you play a fox tinkerer repairing the broken treasures of your woodland animal neighbors. Two days later, an entirely unrelated studio, Neon Polygons, self-published its own Piece by Piece on Steam — a puzzle platformer where you jump through literal jigsaw pieces across 100 levels. Same name, same week, zero connection.

What could have been an awkward standoff became one of the most wholesome stories in indie games this year. The two teams got talking and sold both games together on Steam as the Piece by Piece Double bundle. Then came the Switch question. No More Robots had always planned to bring its Piece by Piece to Nintendo's console — but Neon Polygons couldn't afford to port theirs. So No More Robots founder Mike Rose stepped in to publish the second one too.

That is where things got delightfully messy. Getting two identically named games from the same publisher onto the same store on the same day meant explaining it to Nintendo's certification teams in Europe, Japan, and America, over and over. As Rose put it: "And yes, Nintendo have ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS." On the Japanese Nintendo Store, the two games are even listed differently — one in katakana, the other in Latin letters.

So what are you actually getting on November 25? Two genuinely different games:

• Piece by Piece (Gamkat / No More Robots) — a cozy woodland repair-shop sim starring a fox tinkerer, priced at $11.99 / £9.99.
• Piece by Piece (Neon Polygons) — a jigsaw puzzle platformer with 100 levels of literal piece-connecting platforming, priced at $12.99 / £10.99.
• The Piece by Piece Double Bundle — both games together for $20.99 / £17.85.

Each game carries a 20% launch discount until December 2, with 10% off the bundle over the same period, and both are available to pre-order on the Nintendo eShop right now. Both games are already out on Steam if you want a head start.

This is the indie scene at its best: two small teams turning a bizarre coincidence into a collaboration, and a publisher spending its own time and money to get a fellow developer's game onto Switch. Nintendo's database may never forgive them, but we will. Grab one, grab both — just double-check which Piece by Piece you're buying.