Corpse Party: EXO Edition is set in Jong Gyeong Middle School, a middle school in Seoul that was torn down following the murders and disappearances of several of its staff and students. In modern day, a high school called EXO Academy that has been built over the middle school site. One rainy night, after celebrating their school's culture festival, a group of students consisting of Kai, Sehun, Luhan, Xiumin, Chen, Baekhyun and Chanyeol are telling ghost stories when their class representative, Sehun, decides to perform a charm called "Yixing Ever After", which would allow them to remain friends for eternity. A sudden earthquake transports them to an alternate dimension where Jong Gyeong Middle School still exists and is haunted by the ghosts of the school's murdered children. The students try to figure out the truth and mystery of the cursed school, in order to find their way home and survive the other shadowy forces that haunt the school.