“Good rain knows the best time to fall,” and good Squid Game fans know the best time to tune into Season 3, so be sure to check out exactly when you can watch the final chapter of the Netflix series.
Potential spinoffs aside, Squid Game Season 3 will wrap up the story for good. Given the events of the Season 2 finale, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is re-entering the games as a broken man, having just witnessed Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) kill his best friend.
Cast members have promised the new episodes will be “unimaginably brutal and cruel,” while creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said it will be unlike anything you’d expect. And, of course, there will be plenty of new horrendous games to torment the players.
In what is undoubtedly going to be one of the biggest TV events of the year, spoilers are going to be hard to avoid. So, here’s exactly when Squid Game Season 3 lands on Netflix.
Squid Game Season 3 premieres on Netflix at 12am PT / 3am ET on June 27, 2025. If you’re outside the US, we’ve listed other time zones for you below:
- 4am Brazil
- 8am UK
- 9am Central European Summer Time
- 12:30pm India Standard Time
- 5pm Australia
- 7pm New Zealand
How many episodes are there?
Squid Game Season 3 consists of six episodes, making it the shortest chapter of the Netflix series so far. The first had nine episodes while the second had seven.
However, we should count ourselves lucky, because Dong-hyuk only ever planned to make one season of Squid Game. The only reason he continued it was due to its success and fan demand.
“Honestly, when I was first working on the first season, I didn’t have any plans or thoughts about there ever being further seasons,” he told EW.
“In Korea, it’s not very common for series to have multiple seasons, and also because Season 1 was so incredibly demanding, so I don’t think I had the confidence to once again work on further [seasons] where I would be the writer, director, and creator all throughout.”
He’s not exaggerating – throughout the course of creating Squid Game, Dong-hyuk has lost a total of nine teeth due to stress.
Even so, he forged on with the follow-up, eventually deciding to split the closing chapter in two, which were written and shot back-to-back.
“I originally envisioned Seasons 2 and 3 as a single story,” Dong-hyuk added. “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.”
Squid Game Season 3 release schedule
Not only is Squid Game Season 3 wrapping up in a timely fashion, but it’s also straying from other major Netflix titles by dropping all episodes at once.
It’s become a more common practice of late for Netflix to split up the final seasons of its big TV shows. For instance, Cobra Kai Season 6 was split into three parts, and the same is going ahead for Stranger Things Season 5.
However, Squid Game will not be following suit. So, to avoid spoilers, be sure to check it out when it lands on the streaming service.
What will happen in Season 3?
Squid Game Season 3 will pick up where we left off – the uprising mission failed, Gi-hun has just lost his best friend, and he’s been driven to despair by Front Man (who he still doesn’t know was masquerading as Player 001).
As per the official synopsis, “Gi-hun persists with his goal to put an end to the game, while the Front Man continues onto his next move and the surviving players’ choices will lead to graver consequences with each round.”
One thing is certain: it’s going to be more brutal than ever. Speaking with the Guardian, Dong-hyuk said, “The tone is going to be more dark and bleak. The world, as I observe it, has less hope.
“I wanted to explore questions like, ‘What is the very last resort of humankind? And do we have the will to give future generations something better?’ After watching all three seasons, I hope we can each ask ourselves, ‘What kind of humanity do I have left in me?’”
He continued, “The messages of Squid Game are very important. Instead of ‘fixing’ the narrative, we just wanted to make sure the message was conveyed. And of course it’s a TV show – you have to provide entertainment.
“In Season 3, we have new games, new characters, twists and turns. It’s going to be very entertaining – but with a message.”
For anyone expecting a happy ending, don’t get your hopes up. “People like a happy ending. I’m like that too,” Dong-hyuk explained.
“But some stories, by nature, can’t have one. If you try to force one, the essence is compromised. If a story is holding up a mirror to something, then it’s not always a happy ending. Squid Game is no exception.”
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