Pacific Rim gets an official tabletop RPG: you can play it now

Pacific Rim: A Cinematic Adventure is out now from Evil Genius Games. It’s an officially licensed tabletop RPG set in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim universe, and it lets you build Jaeger pilots, climb into towering machines, and go to war with invading Kaiju. The 128-page sourcebook runs on Evil Genius Games’ Everyday Heroes ruleset, which takes its cues from Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, so anyone who already knows modern tabletop games should have an easy way in. What you get out of it is pure Pacific Rim stuff: mech-versus-monster fights, synchronized launches, and those last-ditch battles in cities that are already half wrecked.

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The book includes Titanic Scale to handle the size gap between Jaegers and Kaiju, Drift rules for the neural link between co-pilots, Jaeger customization, and setting lore that gets into Kaiju cults and other corners of the world. Early reactions from players and critics have landed on the same point: it feels like Pacific Rim, not a licensed game that’s just borrowing the names and logos.

If you’ve been looking for something that captures the films’ mix of scale, style, and total sincerity, this one seems like a pretty easy recommendation. Amazon Prime Video’s prequel series Pacific Rim: The Black, Pacific Rim: Final Breach, and Evil Genius Games adaptations like Kong: Skull Island and Highlander have kept both the franchise and the licensed tabletop wave moving, especially in English-language markets.

You can pick up Pacific Rim: A Cinematic Adventure now from Evil Genius Games.