Released last July in Japan and nowhere else, Nanashi no Game, or The Game with No Name, is Square Enix's first-person survival horror game for Nintendo DS. It's a video game twist on Hideo Nakata's The Ring film, centered around a cursed RPG, whose players die seven days after starting the adventure if they haven't completed it.

Players alternate between exploring creepy 3D environments filled with puzzles and zombie-like spirits, and fighting their way through a Dragon Quest-styled 8-bit RPG on a "TS" system (played on the top screen). According to Optic Camouflage's review of the import, the cursed game features a "haunting melody which distorts at various points" and "graphics that ... glitch whenever you take a step".

Much like other studios promising game announcements for the coming weeks, Square Enix has put up a countdown on its Japanese site for Nanashi no Game, encouraging visitors to return to the page in seven days. Sounds like a sequel! The company has also inverted the site left to right -- inverted things can be kind of scary, I guess!

If the original game sold enough to warrant a follow-up, perhaps that has also motivated Square Enix to consider bringing Nanashi no Game stateside? You can watch a trailer for the original below: