PUBG mouse pads for the desk

Our PUBG mouse pads and desk mats carry art inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds, from the island of Erangel to the crates that fall from the sky, printed in high resolution across the whole of a 3 mm neoprene pad. The surface is fabric, the base doesn't slip and the edges are stitched against fraying. Designs come in up to eight sizes, from 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) for a mouse to 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm) for an entire desk; look at a design's product page to see which of those it's made in. Every pad is printed to order.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds entered early access on Steam in March 2017 and reached full release that December, built around Brendan Greene's battle royale idea: a hundred players parachute onto an island, scavenge for weapons and armor, and fight inside a shrinking circle until one player or squad is left. It went free to play in January 2022 under the name PUBG: Battlegrounds and is published by Krafton.

Erangel from the plane

Erangel is where it all started, an 8 by 8 km island of farmland, forest, Soviet-era towns and rivers. Every match on it begins the same way, looking down from the plane at the whole island: Pochinki in the middle, Georgopol's cranes and containers in the northwest, the School and Rozhok just north of center, and the Military Base on its own island to the south, reached by two long bridges. Seen from above, it is a map players read the way other people read the town they grew up in.

A square island on a long mat

Erangel is square, and most desk mats aren't, so the layout takes a little thought. On the XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), the island fills the depth of the mat with sea on either side, room enough for a compass rose or the line of the plane's flight path. On the 4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), there's space to shift the island toward the end away from your keyboard, so Pochinki and the middle of the map don't disappear under the keys.

The game's map grid, big squares of a kilometer each, gives the design a natural structure, and for anyone who learned to call positions by grid square with a squad, it looks exactly right.

Miramar, Sanhok and Vikendi

The maps that followed gave PUBG a wider set of palettes.

• Erangel: farmland greens, gray concrete and blue water, for a desk with plants and daylight.
• Miramar: desert sand, terracotta towns and dry hills, for a warm wood desk.
• Sanhok: dense jungle and teal rivers on a smaller island, for a green-themed setup.
• Vikendi: snowfields, frozen lakes and pine, for a white desk with cool light.
• Taego: Korean-inspired countryside and villages, in soft greens and gold.

The blue zone and the red zone

The play area in PUBG shrinks in stages, marked by a white circle and the shimmering blue wall of the blue zone closing in on it. Every match ends inside the smallest circle. As a graphic, that sequence of nested circles is clean and almost abstract: thin white rings on dark ground, one inside the next, with a blue haze at the edges. It suits a minimal desk and reads as PUBG only to people who've been caught outside it. The red zone, a random bombing area marked on the map in red, adds a single hot accent if you want one.

Looting with the mouse

A lot of PUBG happens in the inventory. Press Tab and the screen fills with your gear and everything on the ground around you, and you drag scopes, grips and magazines onto weapons and bandages into your backpack with the mouse. In a hot drop, you're doing that with an enemy in the next building. Those quick, precise drags happen dozens of times a match, and an even fabric surface with room around the mouse makes them comfortable.

Holding breath through the scope

PUBG's long-range fights are slow and patient. You lie in the grass with a Kar98k, an M24 or, from a care package, an AWM, holding Shift to steady the scope while you allow for bullet drop across a field. The mouse moves only a few millimeters at a time. Then a squad appears from the tree line and you swing across the screen. A low-sensitivity player needs room for that swing, so the XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), is a sensible minimum.

Peeking in first or third person

PUBG runs both third-person and first-person modes, and they shape the game differently. In third person, the camera floats behind you and lets you see over a wall from cover; in first person, you see only what your character sees. Both use Q and E to lean and Alt to look around freely while you keep running in one direction. With both hands that busy, a mat that holds the keyboard and the mouse on one surface keeps the setup steady through a full match.

Vehicles across a strip

Getting across Erangel means driving: the UAZ jeep, the little Dacia sedan, motorcycles with and without sidecars, boats on the rivers. A vehicle seen side-on is long and low, which fits the M and L sizes, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm) and 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), and a UAZ racing the blue zone across a field is about as PUBG as a single image gets.

The pan, the helmet and the crate

A handful of objects mean PUBG to anyone who has played. The frying pan, a melee weapon that also stops bullets while it hangs at your hip, is the game's longest-running joke. The Level 3 helmet, the battered military helmet everyone hopes to find, is the prize. The care package, falling from a plane and trailing red smoke, is the gamble. Any one of them, alone on the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, works as a small design, and the words "Winner winner chicken dinner" round out the set.

Healing items along the front edge

Staying alive in PUBG means a little row of supplies: bandages, a first aid kit and a med kit for health, and energy drinks and painkillers to fill the boost bar between fights. They are small, flat, instantly recognizable objects, the cans and boxes you hoard in your backpack and use while hiding behind a rock. Lined up in a row along the front or back edge of a long mat, they make a tidy, slightly funny design, and the middle of the mat stays clear for the keyboard.

A topographic Erangel for a work desk

Not every PUBG design has to look like a game. Erangel's terrain, rivers, roads and towns drawn as a plain topographic survey, with contour lines and no interface at all, looks like a vintage map to anyone who hasn't played. It suits a study or an office desk where a gaming design would stand out, and a player who does recognize it gets the joke the moment they spot Pochinki in the middle.

Olive drab and ghillie green

PUBG's overall look is grounded and military: olive drab, khaki, rust, gray concrete and the leafy green of a ghillie suit. That palette suits a desk that already leans that way, an olive keyboard, a wood surface, a lamp with warm light. It's also an easy desk to keep coherent, since the colors don't fight with each other and none of them shouts.

PUBG Mobile and the desk

PUBG Mobile, released in 2018, brought the same battle royale to phones. Mobile players don't need a mouse pad for the game itself, but the desk still matters: a phone on a stand, a cooling fan, a controller, or a laptop for watching streams between matches. A desk mat gives that corner one surface, keeps things from sliding and makes a phone gaming spot look like a deliberate setup rather than a spare table.

Squads and long sessions

A PUBG match can last half an hour, and a squad often plays several in a row, with a lot of waiting, running and looting between the fights. That's a long stretch with your forearm on the desk, and the cushioned neoprene is kinder to the wrist than bare wood or glass. For a squad that plays together, matching pads in the same map palette make a shared room or a LAN table look like one team's.

Sizes for a PUBG desk

Sizes vary from design to design and are listed on each product page. Here's how the main ones line up with PUBG setups.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	The frying pan or a Level 3 helmet
Phone or laptop corner	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A PUBG Mobile setup with a stand
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	A UAZ racing along the strip
Low-sensitivity mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Room for a long swing off the scope
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	All of Erangel with sea on both sides
Whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Erangel shifted clear of the keyboard

The L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), gives a vehicle or a convoy a longer road, and the 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), is a deeper, wider choice for a desk that can't take the full depth of the XXL.

Gifts for a PUBG player

A PUBG pad suits someone who played in the 2017 early-access days, a squad member who always wants to drop Pochinki or a PUBG Mobile player building a proper desk. Pick by the map they talk about, or the pan if you want a laugh. If you're guessing at the desk, an XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), suits keyboard-and-mouse players, while a mobile player is better served by the 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm).

Your order is printed within 1–3 business days and shipped from Turkey; expect it in the US 2–5 business days after it leaves.

Cleaning off the dust

Military greens and desert tans hide marks well; Vikendi's whites don't. Deal with spills before they sink in, and let a damp cloth handle everyday grime. For a deep clean, hand wash it in lukewarm water and a mild soap, rinse until the soap is gone, press the water out with a towel and let it air-dry flat. The pad shouldn't see a washing machine, a tumble dryer or an iron at any point.

A note on names

PUBG, PUBG: Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile and the names of maps, places and items are used here only to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Krafton, PUBG Studios or Tencent.