The game used the latest Silicon Graphics computers at the time to render the graphics as realistically as possible. Cybertech, however, learns of this plan and injects Korsby with their own piloted submarines shrunken down to a microscopic size to destroy Axiom's droids and prevent them from controlling Korsby's mind. Axiom injects Cybertech president Tiron Korsby's body with microscopic droids designed to penetrate his brain and control his mind. Axiom also claims that Cybertech is responsible for the death of Axiom's former president. Because of this, poverty, crime and disease are rampant in the cities. Because of heavy mining operations on the planet from the corporations, most of Bodor is uninhabitable due to pollution, forcing 87% of the population onto 2% of the planet's land. Set in the year of 2051 AD, the game takes place in a dystopian futuristic setting on an alien planet called Bodor, located in the Bator System, where the galaxy's two largest conglomerates - Cybertech, considered the more compassionate of the two, and Axiom, thought to be the more oppressive corporation - compete to achieve premier status in the business world, a position known as CORP 1. The game is either in first-person or third-person view depending on the gaming system. Microcosm featured realistic FMV animation, with the graphics being rendered on Silicon Graphics workstations.

It was originally developed for the FM Towns, and also ported for the Sega Mega-CD, Amiga CD32, 3DO, and MS-DOS. Microcosm is a 3D rail shooter video game developed and published by Psygnosis in 1993.

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