Square Enix, champions of some of the most popular games in history with their Final Fantasy series have now started to venture out of their RPG comfort zone. The masters of plot have made their first foray into the genre of horror, recently releasing ‘Nanashi No Game,’ literally, ‘The Game with No name’ across Japan.

It seems that Square underestimated their own abilities in that they misjudged just exactly how popular this title would turn out to be. Release in July, Nanashi No Game has already sold over 50,000 units but has now dropped out of the Media Create Top 50 after just a short time.

The First-Person Horror Adventure offers up an intriguing tale of an old 8-bit game that curses people, killing them seven days after playing it. As the story progresses the gameplay switches from the First-Person Adventure format to the 8-bit game as the mystery is gradually unravelled, throwing in plenty of scares throughout, especially if played alone with earphones in.

For many, the game’s dropping out of the top 50 meant simply that it had waxed and now it was waning, and just another game in the long list of ‘flash in the pan’ titles that have been released over the years. Now however it has been discovered that the game, may be more popular than originally believed. Rather than interest waning in the product, larges stores such as Bic Camera are sold out and do not know when more stock will be made available. Hopefully Square will act swiftly in its redistribution of the title so that we can more ably assess the success of Nanashi.

With Square Enix Europe stating the game is currently under consideration for a Western release, there is still hope for this very enjoyable DS horror experience to break out of Japan.