Ngũ Điện: The Fifth Court is a thematic, asymmetric two-player game set in the Fifth Court of Buddhist Hell (Thập Điện Diêm Vương). In Vietnamese Buddhist and folk mythology regarding the afterlife, the underworld is divided into Ten Courts (Thập Điện), each governed by a judge-king. Ngũ Điện is the Fifth Court, presided over by Diêm La Vương (King Yama). It is famous in lore for housing Đài Vọng Hương (the Terrace of Looking Back Home), where souls look back at their living relatives one last time before receiving judgment.

In Ngũ Điện, players take on the roles of damned souls serving as Spirit Detectives to pay off their karmic debts. Sitting opposite one another across a shared timeline, both players compete to dissolve the trauma anchoring trapped spirits while proving their own transformative empathy to earn an auspicious rebirth (Luân Hồi).