Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown cover

50/100
Players2 ratings: 65/100
Critics1 review

Where to get it

Steam

2015 · Cliffhanger Productions · Indie · MMORPG

Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown

Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.

Released: 28 April 2015
Platforms: Android Linux Windows macOS
Genres: Indie MMORPG Role-playing Strategy Turn-based strategy
Developers: Cliffhanger Productions
Publishers: THQ Nordic
Series: Shadowrun
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Science fiction
Country: Austria
Age ratings: ESRB T

About

Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown (originally marketed as Shadowrun Online) was a turn-based tactical video game developed by Cliffhanger Productions and published by Nordic Games as part of Jordan Weisman's cyberpunk Shadowrun fictional universe. With the servers shut down, the game stopped working on November 30, 2018.

Keywords

cyberpunk
crowdfunding - kickstarter
crowdfunding
humble bundle
crowd funded
gamescom 2014

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

Following the success of the Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter campaign, Cliffhanger Productions initiated a similar campaign to crowdsource $500,000 in July 2012, and pledged to deliver a closed beta version of Shadowrun Online for contributors around May 2013.

Shadowrun Chronicles: INFECTED! Director's Cut combines the two games Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown and the INFECTED! campaigns into one game. It was released on Steam on December 10, 2015.

Reception

5 out of 10, saying "smart co-op partners make Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown's tactical combat work, but anything less falls short." It has a 61/100 rating on Metacritic. GameSpot awarded it a score of 3 out of 10, saying "Shadowrun Chronicles isn't just a bad Shadowrun game. It's a bad game.

That it comes from a series with such an exceptional pedigree and plenty of exceptional recent successes just makes the disappointment that much more bitter." Shacknews, by contrast, gave it a 7 out of 10, praising the story, setting, strategy, and multiplayer, while criticizing the server issues, incomplete game systems, pointless death timer, and rewards that weren't proportionate to mission difficulty.