The World Ends with You, known in Japan as , is an
action role-playing game with
urban fantasy elements developed by
Square Enix's
Kingdom Hearts team and
Jupiter for the
Nintendo DS handheld console. Set in the modern-day
Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo,
The World Ends with You features a distinctive art style inspired by Shibuya and its youth culture. Development was inspired by elements of Jupiter's previous game,
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. It was released in Japan in July 2007, and in
PAL regions and North America on April 22, 2008. An enhanced version for iOS devices, titled
The World Ends With You -Solo Remix-, was released in August 2012 (pulled in February 2015 due to incompatibility with iOS 8; restored in June 2015) and for Android devices in June 2014. A social network spin-off game titled
The World Ends With You -Live Remix- was released in May 2013 for Japan's Android and iOS Stores developed by Square Enix in collaboration with GREE. The spinoff was shut down in February 2014 due to a lack of increasing interest.