In what year was Palworld first announced?

Palworld was first announced in 2021.

Pocketpair revealed the game in June 2021 with a trailer that introduced its unusual combination of cute, collectible creatures and a darker survival-crafting setting. The announcement immediately attracted attention because the game showed Pals being used for exploration, construction, work, and armed combat.

The announcement year is easy to confuse with the release year. Palworld entered early access in January 2024, nearly three years after its first public reveal. Development began before release and continued through that early-access period.

The game’s long development timeline helped explain the gap between its first trailer and launch. Pocketpair used the intervening years to build an open-world system involving crafting, base management, creature breeding, combat, and multiplayer. Thus, 2021 marks the announcement, not Palworld’s commercial release.