Netflix reveals June 2025 release date for Squid Game season 3, and its first clip teases a new mini-game that'll have a big impact on Gi-hun and his fellow contestants

Prepare for the final game

30 Jan 2025, 14:02 · TechRadar

News By Tom Power published 30 January 2025

Squid Game season 3 will reunite us with Front Man in late June (Image credit: Netflix)

Netflix has announced when Squid Game season 3 will be released
The hugely popular show's final chapter will arrive in late June
Season 3's first clip was shown exclusively to Next on Netflix 2025 attendees

Get ready for Gi-hun's final hurrah, everyone, because Netflix has confirmed when Squid Game season 3 will debut on its streaming platform: June 27, 2025.

First announced at Next on Netflix 2025 last night (January 29) before being publicly revealed almost 24 hours later, Squid Game's final season will bring Seong Gi-hun's (Lee Jung-jae) quest to stop the deadly games to an end. However, as one of season 3's first-look images – check them out below – reveals, he'll need to escape captivity first before trying to rally the latest games' remaining contestants again in a bid to thwart Front Man once and for all.

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I'm not sure how Gi-hun will get out of this one...(Image credit: Netflix)

Will Kang No-eul join the good guys in season 3?(Image credit: Netflix)

Season 3's first episode will dissect the fallout from its predecessor's explosive and bloody finale(Image credit: Netflix)

What will become of Front Man in season 3?(Image credit: Netflix)

Squid Game's first season unexpectedly took the world by storm following its September 2021 release. Indeed, thanks to Tiktok and positive word of mouth, Lee Dong-hyuk's survival drama series was soon catapulted to the top of Netflix's most-watched TV shows list of the year. Since then, it's not only gone onto become one of the best Netflix shows of all-time, but also set a seemingly unbreakable record as one of the best streaming service's most-watched TV Original ever. Not even Stranger Things, the first major hit Netflix had on its hands, could stop its unrelenting match to the number one spot. I suspect Stranger Things season 5 may run it close once it's released later this year, though.

But I digress. Squid Game season 1's meteoric rise and enduring popularity meant that the wait for its second season was an excruciating one at best. We already knew that Squid Game season 3 would be released sometime in 2025 – indeed, it was confirmed as much last August. Even so, with plenty of other big Netflix series set to return this year, it's good to know that there won't be such a long break between last season and the hugely successful Korean language show's forthcoming final chapter.

New season, new games

Season 3 will introduce a revised, 'random chance' version of its forebear's between-rounds voting minigame (Image credit: No Ju-han/Netflix)

Full spoilers follow for Squid Game season 2.

Squid Game season 3's official release date and first-look images weren't the only things that Next on Netflix 2025 attendees were treated to. I was present at the UK edition of the now-annual event and, as part of the Los Angeles edition, the first portion of which was livestreamed to us, Netflix exclusively showed us the first clip from season 3. Major spoilers immediately follow for said footage as well as season 2's soul-crushing finale, so turn back now if you don't want to know anything.

Will Myung-gi and Jun-hee finally reconcile in season 3? (Image credit: No Ju-han/Netflix)

The clip showed the latest edition of the games' remaining participants standing in a rectangular room. A giant gumball machine, which contains red and blue balls, is situated in the middle, with Squid Game's iconic pink-colored jumpsuit-wearing armed personnel standing guard.

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