Zero Escape: The Nonary Games is a compilation of two visual novels from the Zero Escape series: 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. The series, which takes place across three games, follows the stories of three different groups of apparent strangers who are kidnapped and forced to play a game of life and death in order to escape from their captor. Along the way, they make decisions which often carry world-changing repercussions, as they learn more about themselves, and how they may not be strangers after all. The series is written and directed by visual novel veteran Kotaro Uchikoshi.