We’ll discover out the destiny of Participant 456, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), earlier than you suppose. The third and ultimate season of Netflix‘s hit South Korean collection “Squid Recreation” will debut on June 27, 2025, the streamer introduced on Thursday, January 30.
Netflix simply dropped Season 2 (titled “Squid Recreation 2”) on Christmas Day 2024 — greater than three years after the unique season grew to become a sensation. Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger, with the sport’s returning champion main a bullet-filled riot in opposition to the mysterious Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun).
At a press occasion on Wednesday, Netflix Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria rolled a quick clip from “Squid Recreation 3” wherein gamers alternate randomly receiving both crimson or blue balls out of an enormous gumball machine, deciding groups. Gi-hun continues to be alive and can once more be preventing for his life. Who is aware of what lethal sport awaits them.
“Squid Recreation” is created, written, and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk and follows a secretive sport wherein gamers struggle to the demise in youngsters’s video games for the prospect to win 456 billion Korean gained.
The primary season of “Squid Recreation” stays Netflix’s hottest present in its historical past, surpassing even English-language hits like “Stranger Issues ” (Seasons 3 and 4 no less than; the primary two seasons predate Netflix’s data-transparency period) and “Wednesday.” “Squid Recreation 2” is at the moment fourth general and nonetheless inside Netflix’s self-imposed 91-day cutoff for its all-time leaderboard. It’s going to doubtless fall in need of the file mark set by Season 1.
The ultimate season of “Squid Recreation” will arrive in 2025 alongside the ultimate seasons of “Stranger Issues,” “You,” the remainder of “Cobra Kai,” and “Massive Mouth,” in addition to the second season of “Wednesday” starring Jenna Ortega. We don’t but have agency premiere dates for “Massive Mouth,” “Stranger Issues 5” or “Wednesday.”
After concluding 2024 with 302 million international subscribers, a staggering leap in its ultimate quarter of the yr due to “Squid Recreation” and buzzy reside occasions just like the NFL soccer video games and the “Tyson vs. Paul” struggle, Netflix is about up for an enormous 2025. With the surge of subscribers, Netflix can be elevating costs for the primary time in over a yr.
Take a look at some first-look photographs for “Squid Recreation” Season 3 right here:
Lee Byung-hun as Entrance manNoh Ju-han / Netflix
Lee Byung-hun as Entrance manNoh Ju-han / Netflix
Park Gyu-young as Kang No-eulNoh Ju-han / Netflix
Park Sung-hoon as Cho Hyun-ju, Jo Yu-ri as Kim Jun-hee, Kang Ae-sim as Jang Geum-ja, Yang Dong-geun as Park Yong-sikNoh Ju-han / Netflix