The game's story and setting is inspired by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's novel "The Difference Engine".
For the game's US release, the character called Preacher was renamed as Scientist because the games with religious connotation would usually get mature rating there. Also, the game was renamed as "Soldiers of Fortune".
Considered to be one of the greatest games for the Amiga computer system ever made.
The original beta version (as seen on TV in many countries) was a three player game (not two).
Shortly after the game's release, Renegade took out a full page advert in trade magazine CTW, which simply said "The Chaos Engine. So good, even that bastard Stuart Campbell liked it", referring to a British journalist who had a habit of not liking much-hyped games, including previous Bitmap Brothers titles Xenon 2: Megablast (1989) and Gods (1991), but gave this one a great review. Ironically Campbell later worked for CTW.