The project immediately begins to have things go wrong as several girls escape, numerous convicts begin wandering around, and all means of communication with Hell's operating committee are cut off. Unfortunately, the girls do not want to fight and have to be properly 'motivated' into action. The plot focuses on an unnamed main character called to lead a group of delinquent girls through Hell in order to overcome Four Trials that will cleanse them of their sins and allow them to return to life redeemed.
Initially released for the Play Station Portable in 2010, an Updated Re-release for the PlayStation Vita titled Criminal Girls: Invite Only was published in 2012, and was the only version ported to the west in 2015. Criminal Girls is a turn-based, dungeon crawling JRPG developed by Imageepoch and published by Nippon Ichi.