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11 DokeV does not have a confirmed release date. The current public estimate, drawn from Pearl Abyss leadership statements restated in the studio's August 11, 2026 quarterly earnings letter, targets the second half of 2028. An earlier estimate from March 2026 had framed a wider window of late 2027 to early 2029, and that range has since been narrowed and superseded; treat any specific date as a planning target, not a committed one. For background on the wider project, see the Overview and the Getting Started primer. As of the August 2026 letter, the project has moved beyond its foundational system setup and is in the phase of expanding content creation and validating the core gameplay loop. The same letter gives the first timing for public playable access: full-scale marketing, including hands-on demos, is expected to begin around the second half of 2027.

44 Announcement Timeline

66 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.July 24, 2026Pearl Abyss publishes its July 2026 investor presentation, which lists DokeV with a schedule of 2H28, the second half of 2028. The same schedule field read TBA in the edition published on May 14, 2026, so this is the first time the studio has printed a target window for DokeV in its investor materials. The deck also lists the genre as open-world action adventure and the platforms as console and PC.August 11, 2026Pearl Abyss publishes its second-quarter 2026 earnings letter. The letter restates the second half of 2028 as the launch target and adds the first timing ever given for public playable access: full-scale marketing including hands-on demos is expected to begin around the second half of 2027. It describes DokeV as having moved beyond its foundational system setup into expanding content creation and validating the core gameplay loop, says development manpower is being steadily expanded, and confirms staff are being progressively reallocated onto the project as patch work on Crimson Desert stabilises.August 18, 2026Pearl Abyss publishes its August 2026 investor presentation. The DokeV entry is unchanged from the July edition: a schedule of 2H28, a genre of open-world action adventure, and platforms of console and PC. It is the second consecutive investor deck to print the same window, and it arrived one week after the second-quarter earnings letter restated it.

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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1313 The planning horizon stated in March 2026 was roughly two to three years to completion. Anchored to that spring 2026 reference point, the math landed between late 2027 and early 2029, and that is the range the studio was working from at the time. It has since been narrowed. The second half of 2028 sits inside the old range and now supersedes it as the operative target, so the wider window is history rather than the current outlook. The May 12, 2026 first-quarter earnings letter described DokeV as being in pre-production at that point in the year, with the studio's main team newly moved onto the project and the polish phase still ahead. That label has since been retired: by the August 11, 2026 letter Pearl Abyss placed the project past its foundational system setup and into content expansion and core-loop validation.

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1515 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. That target was subsequently written into the studio's own investor materials: the investor presentation published on July 24, 2026 lists DokeV's schedule as 2H28, where the previous edition from May 14, 2026 had left the same field as TBA. A printed schedule in an investor document is a firmer signal than a spoken estimate, though it still falls short of a dated launch announcement.

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1717 The firmest statement so far arrived on August 11, 2026, when Pearl Abyss published its second-quarter earnings letter. The document restates the second half of 2028 three separate times and ties the reveal plan directly to it, saying the reveal strategy is being aligned with that timeline. It also gives the first date the studio has ever attached to public playable access: full-scale marketing initiatives, including hands-on demos, are expected to begin around the second half of 2027. On resourcing, the letter says development manpower is being steadily expanded to accelerate the pace of work, and that staff are being progressively reallocated onto DokeV as patch operations on Crimson Desert stabilise. It closes that section by restating a full commitment to the second-half-of-2028 timeframe.

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1919 The same letter explains, for the first time on the record, why no new footage has appeared. Rather than simply moving the reveal earlier, the studio said it considers it essential to sustain interest and momentum all the way through to launch, and that past experience showed releasing content too early can lead to hype fatigue. The stated plan is to show the game at a point that fully demonstrates its quality and direction.

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2424 Several details that would normally accompany a firm release announcement remain undisclosed. The studio has not named a month or given a dated launch announcement, has not opened a Steam page or any other PC storefront listing, and has not stated a platform shipping order. A public demo is now on the schedule rather than on the calendar: hands-on demos are expected from the second half of 2027, but no event, venue, or build has been named. 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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28-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.

28+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. Those earnings disclosures have kept a quarterly rhythm through 2026, with the first-quarter letter published in May and the second-quarter letter in August, so the third-quarter letter is the next routine document expected to carry a DokeV status line.

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