The game takes place at the same time as the film and includes some of the same locations. As a result, if you do the right things at the right time, you can see Rick Deckard and/or evidence from his investigation. The most notable place this can happen is when the man takes your photograph to blind you with the flash. When the photo is examined in Esper, Deckard can be seen interrogating someone in the background. However, this does not always happen. Depending on the decisions you make in the game before the photo is taken, Deckard may *not* appear in the photograph. If Deckard is in the picture, McCoy will say "That guy looks familiar" when you zoom in on him with Esper.
The subplot, which depicts two police departments operating in the same town with no knowledge of each other, each believing itself to be the legal police force, and McCoy being caught by the one he does not work for, is taken directly from "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", the novel on which the film Blade Runner (1982) is based, but there is no trace of this plot in the film.
Rutger Hauer was planned to appear as Roy Batty, but the scene was cut.
The game premiered for Windows PCs in two different formats: a four-disc CD-ROM version and a single-disc DVD-ROM version. Players would have to change discs periodically while playing the CD-ROM version.
On December 12, 2019, the game was re-released on the digital video game distributor GOG. Com. This was made possible by ScummVM developers who reverse-engineered the game's engine over eight years.
The story includes a character named Runciter, the owner of a pet shop. In 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', the original novel on which the film Blade Runner is based, written by Philip K. Dick, there is a man with the same name and profession.
The message Clovis leaves on McCoy's answering machine is a quote from "A Poison Tree", a poem by William Blake.
In the second act, while interrogating the owner of the jewelry shop in Animoid Row, a mogwai from Gremlins (1984) can be seen hanging in a cage on the left side of the screen.
The name Runciter comes from another Philip K. Dick novel, "Ubik"; along with "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the basis for Blade Runner, it is included in the Library of America's "Philip K Dick: Four Novels of The 1960's".
During the third act, one of the arcade games in Hysteria Hall is Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996), another game developed by the now-defunct Westwood Studios.