The game is set in a cyberpunk future. Players represent super corporation rivals, the Zaibatsu, using everything at their disposal to execute missions, accumulate power, and bury the opposition. Zaibatsu is a cyberpunk-themed game. Each player in the game can move pawns, attack the pawns controlled by other players, and carry out missions to win the game. The game consists of cards, which allow a variety of actions to choose, dice that add randomness and uncertainty to the game, and a modular board which adds replay value to the game. Also, each player has the opportunity to control simultaneously, multiple pawns, each one of them with special abilities and restrictions. Zaibatsu Shadowraiders is an expansion to Zaibatsu Speedrunners. All of the basic rules for original Zaibatsu apply to Zaibatsu Shadowraiders.