Shadowrun for Sega CD is a little-known game that is based on the FASA RPG of the same name and has only very little to do with its much more popular brethren for SNES and Genesis.
The game is set in twenty-first century, where humanity faces a difficult period following devastating wars and disasters. Magic and technology co-exist, supernatural powers, mythical creatures, ghosts, cyberspace, and street deckers are all part of this world. The player controls a party of characters with different backgrounds as they hunt down a ghostly warrior who has been disturbing the city for quite some time.
Shadowrun for Sega CD is a distinctly Japanese game, combining elements of adventure games like Snatcher and turn-based party RPGs. In adventure mode, the player interacts with the game world by choosing commands from a menu, gathering evidence, accessing the internet, and talking to informers. However, they also navigate top-down views of the battlefield, using melee, long-ranged, and magic attacks against enemies.
The outcome of an attack is decided by a dice roll, which the player can stop or let the computer do for them. Cyberspace fights also occur when encountering hostile hackers in the matrix world.