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With so many games releasing these days, it must be so difficult to come up with a completely unique title without encroaching on another developer’s work.
Case in point, an indie game by the name of Piece by Piece from publisher No More Robots launched earlier this year on Steam, but in an amusing twist of fate, another game called Piece by Piece came out in the same week.
Now, this isn’t the case of a washed up dev blatantly copying another for easy money – both titles here are radically different to one another, but they just happen to share the same name.
If this were a big publisher like EA, Ubisoft, or even Nintendo, you could easily imagine that it would be taking action to force a name change. That is if it doesn’t work to remove the duplicate game from sale altogether.
However, as highlighted by Mike Rose from No More Robots, the developer of the other Piece by Piece game couldn’t afford to bring it to Switch. So, in what is no doubt a remarkably kind gesture, No More Robots did it for them.
I have some 🌟feel-good news🌟 to share today!
Earlier this year we launched a game called Piece by Piece. In the same week, *another* game called Piece by Piece came out
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
— Mike Rose (@mikerose.bsky.social) 2026-11-11T10:22:40.491Z
“I have some feel-good news to share today!
“Earlier this year we launched a game called Piece by Piece. In the same week, *another* game called Piece by Piece came out.
“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.”
Both titles are available for pre-order via the Switch eShop ahead of their release on 25th November, and you can also opt for a bundle if you’re keen to try out both.
Rose states that Nintendo “absolutely hated this”, questioning why both games have the same title during the certification process. We totally understand Nintendo’s position on this, but it’s wonderful to see that it approved everything in the end. Rose ended his announcement to say “Anyway, mega happy to be helping them out with such a fun thing. Not all publishers are evil, I promise!!”.
What a lovely story, huh? What do you make of it, dear reader? Leave your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source bsky.app]
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