{"id":92952,"date":"2026-11-12T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92952"},"modified":"2026-11-12T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:40:03","slug":"this-happy-ending-for-two-games-with-identical-names-was-a-headache-for-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92952","title":{"rendered":"This Happy Ending For Two Games With Identical Names Was A Headache For Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 25, two entirely separate games called Piece by Piece are releasing on Nintendo Switch. It&#8217;s no coincidence, but the circumstances that led to this unusual situation certainly stem from a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher No More Robots launched Piece by Piece, a cozy sim game full of cute animal characters, on Steam back in March. Two days later, studio Neon Polygons self-published an unrelated puzzle-platformer where you jump through literal puzzle pieces that you connect together&#8211;this game is also called Piece by Piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What could have been a conflict between indie developers turned out to be the beginning of a wholesome business relationship. Both games were <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/bundle\/68985\/Piece_by_Piece_Double\/\">bundled together on Steam<\/a>, and now No More Robots is publishing the Switch ports of both titles.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mikerose.bsky.social\/post\/3mzzqdmjqjs2m  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to No More Robots co-founder Mike Rose, Neon Polygons &#8220;couldn&#8217;t afford to bring their game to Switch,&#8221; so No More Robots stepped in to publish the game for them. As with Steam, you can buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/piece-by-piece-double-bundle-switch\/\">both games together in a bundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s undeniably a heartwarming and unique story, though one would assume that having to figure out the logistics behind launching two games that not only have the same name, but the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 25, two entirely separate games called Piece by Piece are releasing on Nintendo Switch. It&#8217;s no coincidence, but the circumstances that led to this unusual situation certainly stem from a coincidence. Publisher No More Robots launched Piece by Piece, a cozy sim game full of cute animal characters, on Steam back in March&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":92954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92955,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92952\/revisions\/92955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}