In the meantime, you do lots of hacking, shooting, chatting, spirit summoning, and whatever else it is that Shadowrunners need to do to survive.Īfter a somewhat disappointing launch in 2013, the series showed substantial improvement in 2014’s Shadowrun: Dragonfall. You barely escape with your life and you retreat to the underworld, where you try and piece together why your mentor requested your presence, what happened to him, and how it all ties into a series of bizarre nightmares that everyone in the game suddenly shares. After summoning you with a cryptic message, this man disappears and you are met with assassins instead. In this game you play as a Shadowrunner returning home to Hong Kong after some time overseas, at the behest of your mentor and foster father.
In Shadowrun: Hong Kong, the third game in Harebrained Schemes’s Shadowrun revival, you find yourself doing just that. In a futuristic Hong Kong, hackers and soldiers for hire conduct corporate espionage, assassination, kidnapping, and steal valuable prototypes. The crowded, neon-lit, and wealthy financial center is a perfect place to live if you are a mercenary for hire with questionable ethics looking to make a few extra dollars. It is hard to imagine a better setting for a Shadowrun game than Hong Kong.
