The events of the story are set to the fictive dictatorship "Locha", Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina (Gregory Weirs hometown).

He is asked to break into the computer network of the nation Locha, a fictive military junta with a resemblance to Myanmar, as a test for his hacking skills.

While drilling deeper into Locha's firewalls, the player discovers that a famous Lochan blogger and political activist, Li Yolei, has been recently arrested and awaits execution for "trahison and Western propaganda."

Using their skills, sk3tch and the player manage to free him and his cellmate Gadao Koi, another inmate in death row for suspected terrorism, and to have them board a plane to Los Angeles; but as soon as they land in American soil, the FBI arrest and send them to the Camp Zulu detention camp on one of the Florida Keys (which opened after the closure of Guantanamo Bay), suspecting them to be terrorists as the relation between Locha and the United Nations becomes sour.

Gadao also hacked the central server of Charlotte's fire and emergency department to delay any help, to maximize the damage and casualties of the attack.

"[2] Michael Rose of IndieGames.com stated Exploit is "...a great little game..." which initially appears complicated, but leaves the player feeling "...rather clever from figuring it out.