As famous above, the primary look at Squid Recreation season 3 was unveiled at Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event on Could 31, 2025. The dying depend is excessive and the gamers are determined for a method out — and Participant 456 and The Frontman come head to head as the ultimate sport involves an finish.
Netflix launched the primary teaser for Squid Recreation season 3 on Could 6, 2025. Within the teaser, which you’ll watch above, we see Gihun ushered again into the video games services inside one of many video games’ coffins. Although he is bleeding, he is alive. Then, the video games seemingly begin once more with gamers drawing pink and white balls from a gumball machine to type them into groups. “It is time to play yet one more final time,” the phrases on the display learn as we get a glimpse of the VIPs and listen to the cries of Junhee’s child.
There may be additionally a tiny teaser that comes within the mid-credits of the final episode. The scene exhibits three gamers — 353, 100, and 096 — approaching the again of creepy doll Younghee, who’s going through a brand new boy doll and a inexperienced/pink mild that appears a bit like a practice sign. A touch at the following sport, maybe?
When is Squid Recreation season 3 popping out?
Netflix has formally confirmed that Squid Recreation season 3 will premiere on June 27, 2025, simply six months and at some point after season 2 hit the streamer.
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The shorter wait is smart because it was beforehand reported that season 2 and season 3 of Squid Recreation had been filmed concurrently. On June 14, 2024, South Korean publication OSEN printed an unique report confirming season 2 of Squid Recreation had wrapped filming after 11 months. Filming for season 2 began in July 2023 and led to June 2024. It took so lengthy exactly as a result of seasons 2 and 3 had been filmed back-to-back, which means a steady story was damaged into two components with a shorter hole between releases.
What’s going to Squid Recreation season 3 be about??
Squid Recreation launched seven anxiety-inducing episodes at the tip of 2024. Season 2 brings Seong Gihun (Lee Jungjae) voluntarily again into the video games, as he seeks to destroy them and their infrastructure (and the mysterious Entrance Man) from the within. That mission takes him again to the island with 455 new fellow opponents — and a well-known face, as his longtime finest pal Junbae (Lee Seohwan) has additionally joined the video games out of debt desperation. Gihun enters the video games feeling assured; he is just lately crushed the Salesman (Gong Yoo) at his personal sport, leading to his dying.
However whereas Gihun has expertise with the video games, it isn’t as straightforward as he might need anticipated; his fellow gamers do not belief him, even after he says he is accomplished it earlier than. “Why the hell would you come crawling again?” somebody asks after the revelation. And although they do play Purple Mild, Inexperienced Mild, the following childhood video games aren’t the identical ones we noticed in season 1. His authority is questioned, and he is not capable of efficiently persuade the opponents to vote to finish the video games.
Enter: drastic measures. Gihun levels a coup led by a bunch of allies that kill troopers on their quest to the Entrance Man. (In addition they maintain losses, because the Entrance Man kills Jungbae through the battle.) Gihun does not know but that he really is aware of the Entrance Man within the video games — he is been enjoying as Gihun’s vital ally Participant 001, below the pretend title Youngil, and staged his dying within the battle so he may resume the Entrance Man id.
