Welcome to Sterling Heights. Graduation is optional. Survival is not. Sterling Heights was meant to be an honour. A high-stakes psychological mystery set inside a closed-system death game, driven by character psychology and strategic survival. Dark comedy and slow-burn romance spread throughout. An elite institution for the exceptional. A place where talent was cultivated, futures secured, and brilliance rewarded. The odd thing is, no one remembers arriving. For Siyun Chen, it should have been another step towards greatness, alongside her life-long friend, Aisling Marlowe. They wake trapped within locked halls and pristine corridors, overseen by Vestra, a charismatic and unnervingly gleeful headmaster who offers only one rule: Kill, and you may escape. What follows is a calculated descent into paranoia. As students begin to die and trials force the survivors to accuse one another, trust fractures under the weight of fear. Schemes form in whispers. Alibis are crafted and dismantled. Friendships strain, loyalties shift, and the line between protection and betrayal blurs beyond recognition. Behind the scenes, a secret escape plan begins to take shape; dangerous, meticulous, and built on half-truths and silence. Not everyone is told. Not everyone is trusted. And not everyone is who they seem. Surrounded by formidable talents: Felix Grantham, Max Buchanan, Eira Serrano, Jiro Masada, Jamie Hall, Tamsin Bramwell, Gabriel Winslow, Lydia Whitecome, and many more- artists, academics and athletes alike, the question becomes less about who will kill and more about who can live with what they've done. Inspired heavily by Danganronpa ⚠ Content Warnings: Swearing, violence, gore, psychological horror, betrayal, grief, and other sensitive themes. Cover art drawn by me on Procreate.