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1-DokeV does not have a confirmed release date. The current public estimate, drawn from Pearl Abyss leadership statements at the March 2026 shareholder meeting, points to a launch window between late 2027 and early 2029. Treat that range as a planning estimate, not a committed date. For background on the wider project, see the Overview and the Getting Started primer. As of the studio's May 12, 2026 Q1 earnings letter, the project remains in pre-production, so any specific date should be treated as an estimate rather than a commitment.

1+DokeV does not have a confirmed release date. The current public estimate, drawn from Pearl Abyss leadership statements at the studio's July 7, 2026 shareholder meeting, targets the second half of 2028. An earlier estimate from March 2026 had framed a wider window of late 2027 to early 2029; treat any specific date as a planning estimate, not a committed one. For background on the wider project, see the Overview and the Getting Started primer. As of that meeting, DokeV had moved past its world-building and asset-creation stages into content production, where the team is building and verifying the game's core play loop.

44 Announcement Timeline

6-DateEventNovember 7, 2019Pearl Abyss publicly teases the project under the codename Project V ahead of the studio's annual showcase.November 14, 2019Project V is formally revealed as DokeV at Pearl Abyss Connect 2019, held at G-STAR in Busan, alongside the first announcement trailer.December 2019The original soundtrack ROCKSTAR debuts as a lyric video alongside the first batch of in-engine screenshots.August 25, 2021World premiere gameplay trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live; the project is publicly repositioned from MMO to single-player and multiplayer action-adventure.December 2021Full ROCKSTAR music video shown at The Game Awards 2021, lifting global awareness.Through 2022 to 2023Original 2023 internal target slips with no public reveal events; the project enters an extended quiet period.October 2024Studio leadership states publicly that DokeV will launch no earlier than 2027, around eighteen months after Crimson Desert.March 19, 2026Crimson Desert launches, freeing the studio's main team to transition fully onto DokeV.March 27, 2026At Pearl Abyss's 17th annual shareholder meeting, CEO Heo Jin-young estimates roughly two to three years from that point to completion, framing the late 2027 to early 2029 window.May 12, 2026Pearl Abyss's Q1 2026 earnings letter confirms DokeV is in the pre-production stage, with the studio prioritising resources on the project to support a planned title-release cycle of every two to three years.

6+DateEventNovember 7, 2019Pearl Abyss publicly teases the project under the codename Project V ahead of the studio's annual showcase.November 14, 2019Project V is formally revealed as DokeV at Pearl Abyss Connect 2019, held at G-STAR in Busan, alongside the first announcement trailer.December 2019The original soundtrack ROCKSTAR debuts as a lyric video alongside the first batch of in-engine screenshots.August 25, 2021World premiere gameplay trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live; the project is publicly repositioned from MMO to single-player and multiplayer action-adventure.December 2021Full ROCKSTAR music video shown at The Game Awards 2021, lifting global awareness.Through 2022 to 2023Original 2023 internal target slips with no public reveal events; the project enters an extended quiet period.October 2024Studio leadership states publicly that DokeV will launch no earlier than 2027, around eighteen months after Crimson Desert.March 19, 2026Crimson Desert launches, freeing the studio's main team to transition fully onto DokeV.March 27, 2026At Pearl Abyss's 17th annual shareholder meeting, CEO Heo Jin-young estimates roughly two to three years from that point to completion, framing the late 2027 to early 2029 window.May 12, 2026Pearl Abyss's Q1 2026 earnings letter confirms DokeV is in the pre-production stage, with the studio prioritising resources on the project to support a planned title-release cycle of every two to three years.July 7, 2026At a Pearl Abyss shareholder meeting, the studio narrows the DokeV target to the second half of 2028 and reports the project has moved past its world-building and asset-creation stages into content production, with the team building and verifying the core play loop. Leadership also confirms DokeV will not appear at Gamescom 2026 and will hold gameplay footage back until the core loop is polished.

77 Why it Slipped

99 The long gap between the 2021 reveal and the 2026 update has a single stated cause: studio focus. Pearl Abyss prioritized finishing its other open-world project, Crimson Desert, before pushing DokeV into its final production phase. The two share a common engine and large parts of the technology stack, so running both at full intensity was not realistic for one internal team. With Crimson Desert shipped, the main team has transitioned onto DokeV, which is what enabled leadership to put a concrete multi-year estimate on the runway.

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1111 Current Estimate

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1313 The active planning horizon, as stated in March 2026, is roughly two to three years to completion. Anchored to that spring 2026 reference point, the math lands between late 2027 and early 2029. The figure was framed as an estimate of remaining work, not a focus on a fixed date. The range is wide on purpose: late 2027 represents the optimistic end, while early 2029 represents the longer end if production hits typical late-stage scope and polish work. The May 12, 2026 Q1 earnings letter further confirms that DokeV remains in pre-production: the studio's main team has now moved onto the project, but the polish phase still lies ahead and the studio describes upcoming progress in terms of updates as development progresses rather than a fixed launch announcement.

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15+At its July 7, 2026 shareholder meeting, Pearl Abyss gave the most specific target so far: a launch in the second half of 2028. Leadership described the game as having moved past world-building and asset creation into content production, where the team is now building and verifying the core play loop. That narrows the earlier late-2027-to-early-2029 range to the back half of 2028, though the studio still stopped short of naming a month, a storefront date, or a platform launch order.

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1517 What Pearl Abyss Has Not Said

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1719 Several details that would normally accompany a firm release announcement remain undisclosed. The studio has not locked in a specific year, has not opened a Steam page or any other PC storefront listing, has not announced a public demo, and has not stated a platform shipping order. Because there is no storefront listing, any third-party page claiming to host a wishlist or pre-order should be treated as inaccurate.

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1921 Where to Watch

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2123 Schedule updates surface first on a small set of official channels. Watch the Pearl Abyss press board for written announcements, the official DokeV YouTube channel for trailers and dev updates, and the studio's quarterly earnings disclosures for scope and timing commentary. Major industry events like Gamescom, G-STAR, and The Game Awards are the most likely venues for the next reveal. Anything outside those channels should be treated as unconfirmed.

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