In December 2025 we presented three offers featuring the 2013 Fifth Edition of Shadowrun, the cyberpunk-fantasy RPG from Catalyst Game Labs. Back for a fourth time, the revived (and newly expanded) February 2019 Shadowrun 5E Essentials Bundle once again had the SR5 core rulebook and major rules expansions. A new companion, the SR5 Universe Megabundle, added nearly 20 Sixth World campaign and location sourcebooks that get your runners into even deeper trouble on the mean streets of 2081. And you could round out your runner’s resume with the scenarios in our revived June 2024 SR5 Missions Megabundle.
1. SHADOWRUN 5E ESSENTIALS [Feb 2019 – start here]
The year is 2081. Magic has returned and creatures of myth and legend walk among us as megacorps bleed the world dry. You’re a shadowrunner – a deniable asset, a corporate pawn – using bleeding-edge science and magic to make your meat body and mind better-than-flesh. Stay on the edge, and you may survive another run on the mean sprawl streets.
This revived and expanded February 2019 Shadowrun 5E Essentials Bundle had the core rulebooks and key supplements. If you’re new to the game, start with the three titles in this revived offer’s Core Collection: the complete Shadowrun, Fifth Edition Corebook (Master Index Edition), the runner expansion Run Faster, and the 5E cyberware book Chrome Flesh.
Those who paid more than this revival’s threshold (average) price also got this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with eight more titles worth an additional $200, including Run & Gun, Street Grimoire, Data Trails, Rigger 5.0, and – newly added for this revival! – four rules supplements previously presented in SR5 Runs and Guns (February 2019) and SR5 Lethal Streets (July 2020): Forbidden Arcana, Howling Shadows, Kill Code, and Street Lethal. Those who purchased this SR5 Essentials offer during any of its three previous runs received the four newly added titles automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in their linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.
2. SR5 UNIVERSE MEGA [new]
We extended our Shadowrun Fifth Edition coverage into the deeper shadows of the Awakened Earth of 2081 with the many location sourcebooks in this new SR5 Universe Megabundle. There were six SR5 sourcebooks in this offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $130), including the complete Seattle Sprawl Digital Box, Better Than Bad, The Complete Trog, Coyotes, the Fifth Edition versions of the Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia and No Future, and Ten Terrorists.
This offer’s Bonus Collection added eleven more titles worth an additional $118, including Book of the Lost, Court of Shadows; three City by Shadow location guides – Butte, Metropole, and San Francisco Metroplex; and six Shadows in Focus regional guides and adventures: Casablanca-Rabat, Cheyenne, Morocco, Sioux Nation, Sioux Nation: Counting Coup, and Sioux Nation: Starving the Masses.
Three of these titles (Better Than Bad, Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia, and No Future 5E) appeared before in the July 2020 SR5 Lethal Streets offer. The Seattle Sprawl Digital Box appeared previously in the SR5 Missions Megabundle (Jun 2024). The 14 titles in this lineup new to the Bundle of Holding had a combined retail value of $158.
SR5 MISSIONS MEGA (June 2024)
The revived June 2024 SR5 Missions Megabundle added many campaign sourcebooks and scenarios for the 2013 Fifth Edition of Shadowrun. Together these three offers presented 44 Shadowrun, Fifth Edition titles with a combined retail value of US$754 for an unbeatable bargain price.
Once again there were seven titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $77) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including three standalone scenarios that explore the Sixth World – the introductory adventure Splintered State, Lethal Forces, and Toxic Alleys; and four anthologies of adventures originally designed to be run at conventions: Boundless Mercy, Firing Line, London Falling, and Sprawl Wilds.
This revival’s Bonus Collection added eight titles worth an additional $159, including all five campaign books that chronicle the CFD (Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder) metaplot – Stolen Souls, Lockdown, Dark Terrors, Bloody Business, and Market Panic; and all three adventures in the Denver Trilogy: Serrated Edge, False Flag, and Ripping Reality.
