Calling

In Calling, players assume a first-person perspective, exploring various haunted locations within the Mnemonic Abyss. Locations include a doll-filled house, Shosei High School, an internet café, a hospital, a bedroom, and a hair salon. Interacting with objects and navigating through the game is done through the use of the Wii Remote's pointer function. Additionally, the controller doubles as a mobile phone through which ghosts communicate with the player character via the speaker. The phone also provides a means of transportation between locations, and functions as a tool for capturing photographic evidence and recording ghostly voices.

Throughout the game, players will face various ghostly entities in designated "fight events", where they must act swinging motions with the Wii Remote while following on-screen button commands in order to fend them off.

Rin Kagura, Shin Suzutani, Chiyo Kishibe, and Makoto Shirae visit "The Black Page," a mysterious website that displays a death counter. Rin is compelled to visit the site because of a promise she made to a sick girl, Kureneko, six years prior over an online chatroom. Upon entering a chatroom on the site, the four friends are transported to the "Mnemonic Abyss," a purgatory-like void between life and death that materializes memories of the deceased. The group attempts to escape by using their mobile phones as teleportation devices.

Shin finds himself in the home of a doll-maker, who is obsessed with creating lifelike dolls. Later, he discovers Chiyo unconscious on the floor, surrounded by the doll maker's eerie creations. He flees back to where he began and is attacked by the ghost of a little girl holding a black cat doll. Rin is the next to enter the Abyss, finding herself in a school after having a recurring dream.

The game was first unofficially unveiled when gameplay footage was leaked onto the internet in October 2008. Hudson reported that the footage was stolen from a PR company's servers. It was later officially revealed in Famitsu in July 2009.

Calling received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, however, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, two sevens, and one six for a total of 28 out of 40.

Annette Gonzalez of Game Informer said: "Exploring Calling's generic locales to interact with countless objects and engage in uneventful set pieces is hardly enjoyable. The game suffers from slow pacing throughout the eight-plus hour experience, which fittingly ends with an anticlimactic scene." Jack DeVries of IGN called it worthless, saying: "The acting is terrible, it controls poorly, and it's chock full of dumb clichés. It's the videogame equivalent of the more recent Asian horror remakes."