The Zero-Sum Games

In a hyper-realistic digital simulation of abandoned Singapore, sixteen elite teenagers awaken inside Far East Plaza with no memories and no explanation-only cold collars and a system that declares the first trial: Tag. As the rules unfold, survival becomes a mathematical nightmare where proximity is weaponized and every human interaction carries the risk of instant death. Among them is Maeve Vance, a mechanical prodigy struggling to reconstruct her identity as the game descends into controlled chaos. What begins as confusion quickly evolves into a brutal realization: the Architect's system is not testing strength or speed, but the ability to endure a perfectly engineered zero-sum world where every choice transfers suffering to someone else. Before she knows it, Maeve is trapped in a hellhole of death games where a miscalculation leads to death.