Pokemon Board Game 'Are You Perhaps Team Rocket?' Set For November 12
The Pokemon Company is leaning on the anime's Team Rocket cast to sell a board game whose whole premise is hidden-role suspicion, which puts the brand's most recognizable villains at the center of a format they fit.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
The Pokemon Company will release the board game "Are You Perhaps Team Rocket?" on November 12. It costs 2,200 yen, supports 4 to 6 players, is aimed at ages 10 and up, and runs 30 minutes or more. It is co-developed by YOKA Games. The TV commercial features Megumi Hayashibara, Shin-ichiro Miki, and Inuko Inuyama, the Team Rocket voices from the Pokemon anime.
The game is a three-way psychological battle set in a Pokemon Gym in a certain town. The sides are the new Gym Leader and Gym Trainers, Gym Challengers, and Team Rocket members who have infiltrated the gym. Each role carries its own victory condition, and only the Gym Leader can reveal their identity. Players pick a partner from randomly dealt Pokemon cards, work out their target from their own condition, and battle.
The set includes 60 Pokemon cards, 108 play cards, 6 role cards, 6 hand guides, an instruction manual, a quick guide, 4 sheets of markers, and 30 special sleeves. It sells at Pokemon Centers nationwide, Pokemon Center Online, electronics retailers, and toy retailers, with early sales at Game Market 2026 Autumn on October 17 and 18.
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