As he progresses through the asylum, he encounters several people with connections to him, whom he must save. Obsessed, Tapp traverses the asylum and gathers clues along the way in hopes of apprehending Jigsaw. In Saw, The Jigsaw Killer has healed Detective David Tapp from his gunshot wound, and places him in an abandoned insane asylum to teach him a lesson in life appreciation.

Part of the Saw film franchise, the game is set between the first and second films. The Microsoft Windows version was released on October 22, 2009. The game was released on October 6, 2009, in North America and later that year in other regions. Saw, also known as Saw: The Video Game, is a survival horror video game that was developed by Zombie Studios and published by Konami for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.