After a three-year wait, the second season of Squid Game *finally* dropped, and after seven action-packed episodes, the series finale has definitely left fans with a lot more questions than answers.
If you, like us, were yelling at your screen the moment the episode cut to black, the need to know what happens next to our unlikely hero Seong Gi-hun and the surviving participants is growing by the day.
Fortunately, the franchise has already been confirmed to be returning for Season 3 in 2025, meaning we won’t have too much longer to wait to discover what happens next,
As we count down the days until the series’ return, scroll down for everything we know so far about Squid Game Season 3.
What is the plot of Squid Game Season 3?
Warning: Spoilers ahead!
While the exact storyline for Season 3 has yet to be confirmed, we *do* know that a new motion-activated doll named Chul-su will be joining the playground alongside Young-hee for what appears to be a Jack and Jill-style twist on the Red Light, Green Light challenge.
Although the first teaser didn’t share much more information, the finale of Season 2 ended with Young-il, also known as the Front Man, returning to the dark side and betraying his fellow competitors. Did we see it coming? Of course, but his brutal confrontation with Gi-hun and Jung-bae was still incredibly emotional.
The final episode also marked the beginning of the participants rebelling against the masked soldiers of the game, with Hyun-ju and Dae-ho risking their lives to retrieve vital ammunition.
Away from the arena, the end of Season 2 also left several questions surrounding the former police chief (and the Front Man’s brother) Jun-ho’s efforts to discover the island and take down the game from the outside.
When is the Squid Game Season 3 release date?
In good news for fans, Seasons 2 and 3 of Squid Game were filmed back-to-back, which means that post-production is already underway for the next instalment, with Netflix confirming that Squid Game Season 3 will be released in 2025.
Speaking on the Season 2 finale, director Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that the next instalment would be the last, telling ScreenRant, “When I was thinking about the idea for the ending of season three, I think it sort of naturally came to me that this was the finale.”
“I believed that with that story, I was able to tell everything that I wanted to tell through the story of Squid Game and also in the perspective of Gi-hun as a character, and I thought that we don’t need any further stories from here.”
