‘Squid Game’ Season 3: Premiere Date, First-Look Photos & More Details

Amanda Bell January 30, 2025, 10:20 am

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Yim Si-wan as Lee Myung-gi in Squid Game S2 — No Ju-han/Netflix

The second season of Squid Game left fans hanging with a major cliffhanger (what does that mid-credits scene mean?!). The good news is, though, we won’t have to wait long to find out what’s next for the surviving players because Sesaon 3 will be here very, very soon.

Netflix has revealed some key details about the third and final season of its deadly drama, so here’s a look at everything we know about Squid Game Season 3 so far.

When will Squid Game Season 3 premiere?

The third and final season of the series will premiere on Friday, June 27 on Netflix.

Who will return in Squid Game Season 3?

From the first photos of the season, it’s clear that it those players who survived the events of Season 2, including Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), Front Man a.k.a. Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), Kim Jun-hee (Jo Yu-ri), Kang No-uel (Park Gyu-young), Jang Geum-ja (Kang Ae-shim), Park Yong-sik (Yang Dong-geun) will return.

What will happen in Squid Game Season 3?

The third season is expected to continue after the events of Season 2. The show’s creator explained that they were initially envisioned as a single season, but it was separated due to the length of the story.

“I originally envisioned Seasons 2 and 3 as a single story. That’s how I wrote it. But in the process, it came out to be too many episodes. So I thought it’d be better to divide it into two,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I wanted to tell the story of what happened to Gi-hun after where we leave him at the end of Season 1 and what he does, what kind of actions he takes in order to put a stop to these games. As creator, writer, and director, it was almost my mission or my role to further tell that story… the story I wanted to tell came to a full closure at the end of Season 3.”

He also explained the decision to split the story where he does, telling Deadline, “I wrote Seasons 2 and 3 at the same time, and we were in production for both simultaneously, and currently we are in the post-production process for Season 3. When I was writing the script for the two seasons, I felt like there was a big turning point or an inflection point, and that was the end of Episode 7, so I thought that it would do it justice to have a separate season after that. That’s why I had first seven episodes as Season 2 and then the rest of Season 3.”

How did Squid Game Season 2 end?

The second season ended in bloodshed as Gi-hun’s rebellion failed, and many lives from his side (those who voted not to continue the games) were lost.