Hope's Peak University exists only to educate the youth talented enough to be scouted into its halls. And carrying stricter guidelines than ever, it invites a new class to bask in its glory. However, tragedy strikes when Austin Sharp, the Ultimate Sharpshooter, wakes inside a decrepit mockery of HPU. He and 9 other students are forced to participate in a game of life and death, where only cruelty and despair are rewarded. Faced with the circumstances placed by a malevolent headmaster, Austin and his fellow classmates must claw their way to victory if it means surviving the killing game.