To escape the resulting feeling of oppression, many of the youth formed dance crews called Beat Riders to bring joy back into people's lives. Also rising in popularity is the Inves Game, a simulator that uses strange devices known as Lockseeds to summon monsters known as Inves. Kaden Carson, a member of the dance group Team Gaim, tries to find his place in the world while torn between his loyalty to his teammates and his sister Allison's insistence that he starts acting like an adult and finds a proper job. When Team Gaim's captain disappears after informing Kaden of a strange belt he found, Kaden discovers that the Lockseeds and Inves are from an alternate dimension known as Helheim Forest. Encountering a mysterious girl resembling his Team Gaim teammate and close friend Maya Talbot, Kaden uses a Sengoku Driver belt and the Orange Lockseed to become a samurai-armored warrior that is later named Armored Rider Gaim. In the meantime, including Team Baron's leader Kingston Cameron as Armored Rider Baron and Kota's Team Gaim teammate Mason Carter as Ryugen, other Armored Riders appear to amass social power throughout Zawame: Team Raid Wild's Rick Hansen as Kurokage, Team Invitto's Hayden Jenkins as Gridon, and the perfectionist ex-soldier Oren Pierre Alfonso as Bravo.
