Squid Game season 3

*Squid Game*
Squid Game
Season 3
	Promotional poster
Showrunner	Hwang Dong-hyuk
Starring	Lee Jung-jae; Lee Byung-hun; Wi Ha-joon; Im Si-wan; Kang Ha-neul; Park Gyu-young; Lee Jin-wook; Park Sung-hoon; Yang Dong-geun; Kang Ae-shim; Jo Yu-ri;
No. of episodes	6
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	June 27, 2025
Season chronology
	← Previous; Season 2
	List of episodes

The third and final season of South Korean dystopian survival thriller television series Squid Game, marketed as Squid Game 3 (Korean: 오징어 게임 3) and created for television by South Korean writer and television producer Hwang Dong-hyuk, was released on Netflix on June 27, 2025.

Quick Facts Showrunner, Starring ...

The season stars Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-joon, Im Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-shim, Jo Yu-ri, Lee David, and Roh Jae-won. In the season, Seong Gi-hun and the players fight for survival in ever-deadlier games. In-ho welcomes the VIPs while his brother Jun-ho continues the search for the island, unaware of a traitor in their midst.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date ^[1]
17	1	"Keys and Knives" Transliteration: "Yeolsoewa kal" (Korean: 열쇠와 칼)	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Hwang Dong-hyuk	June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
After the unsuccessful rebellion,^[a] Kang No-eul non-fatally shoots Player 246, Gyeong-seok, under the pretense of cooperating with the organ traffickers in exchange for access to their operating room. Seong Gi-hun is returned to the dormitory alive and later learns that all the other rebels, except for Cho Hyun-ju and Kang Dae-ho, have been executed. Another vote is held on whether to end the games; the result is to continue. Gi-hun, still in shock, blames Dae-ho for the rebellion's failure. After the players are led past the hanged rebels' bodies, they are assigned roles for a deadly version of Hide-and-Seek, in which armed taggers must hunt the hiders attempting to find and unlock exits with three different types of keys. Before the game, Dae-ho confronts Gi-hun, blaming his plan for the rebels' deaths in the first place, and Geum-ja and Jun-hee switch roles with Myung-gi and Yong-sik respectively to become hiders. Myung-gi reluctantly teams up with Nam-gyu as taggers. In the operating room, No-eul kills the traffickers and forces the doctor at gunpoint to stabilize Gyeong-seok. Meanwhile, Hwang Jun-ho's team resumes their search for the island with a new drone operator, while Woo-seok independently investigates Captain Park; the Front Man, Hwang In-ho, orders Park to eliminate them if necessary.
18	2	"The Starry Night" Transliteration: "Byeori binnaneun bame" (Korean: 별이 빛나는 밤에)	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Hwang Dong-hyuk	June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
No-eul kills the doctor after Gyeong-seok recovers. In the game's maze, Hyun-ju, Geum-ja, and Jun-hee team up. Myung-gi reluctantly partners with Nam-gyu and helps kill several hiding attackers, realizing that narrowing down other attackers' targets will also eliminate them, thus increasing the prize pool. Elsewhere, Seon-nyeo is betrayed by Player 100, Jeong-dae, and killed by Min-su, who hallucinates Se-mi under the influence of Thanos' drugs that Nam-gyu dropped. Jun-hee injures her ankle and goes into labor while Hyun-ju kills several attackers attacking them. Geum-ja helps Jun-hee deliver her baby, but Hyun-ju is later killed by Myung-gi just as she discovers a way out; overcome with guilt at the sight of Jun-hee and the newborn, Myung-gi walks away. Meanwhile, a vengeful Gi-hun, a tagger, pursues Dae-ho, who confesses to having lied about his military past and betrayed the rebellion out of fear. Enraged, Gi-hun strangles him to death. Moments before the game ends, Yong-sik, having failed to eliminate those in hiding, nearly kills Jun-hee, forcing Geum-ja to intervene and stab him, resulting in his death by the guard and her devastation. Blaming himself for the deaths of the rebels, Gi-hun attempts suicide but is stopped by guards.
19	3	"It's Not Your Fault" Transliteration: "Dangsinui tasi anida" (Korean: 당신의 탓이 아니다)	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Hwang Dong-hyuk	June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
VIPs arrive and pose as soldiers to personally execute the eliminated players. During the vote, Geum-ja pleads with the "O" players to vote "X", but is ignored. She urges Gi-hun to protect Jun-hee and her newborn daughter, but after he initially refuses, she hangs herself, committing suicide out of guilt for causing her son's death. Meanwhile, Jun-ho finds the cliff where In-ho shot him and launches an intensive search of the island. At Captain Park's house, Woo-seok finds a stash of money, a guard uniform, and a photo of Park with the Recruiter, and realizes that the captain is involved in the games, but is arrested before he can leave. Moved by Geum-ja's death, Gi-hun agrees to help Jun-hee and protect her newborn daughter in the next game: Jump Rope, in which players must cross a giant bridge without being hit by the swinging rope. At first, no one moves until Min-su throws Thanos's necklace onto the bridge, prompting a withdrawal-stricken Nam-gyu to jump to catch it, only to be hit by the rope and thrown to his death after finding out the cross was empty. The VIPs decide that Jun-hee's baby counts as a player; Gi-hun, vowing to return for Jun-hee, successfully crosses with the baby in his arms. Encouraged, Player 096 follows, but starts shoving other players once he crosses to increase the prize pool. Meanwhile, the Masked Officer, threatened by No-eul to help her escape, discovers Gyeong-seok posing as a soldier.
20	4	"222"	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Hwang Dong-hyuk	June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
"222 (Squid Game)" redirects here. For the Squid Game characters with the player number 222, see Kim Jun-hee and Jun-hee's baby. During the game, Player 096 blocks the path, but Gi-hun pressures him to move aside, before killing him in self-defense. Meanwhile, Myung-gi approaches Jun-hee, who rejects him for murdering Hyun-ju and reveals her foot injury. As time runs out, Jun-hee entrusts her baby in Gi-hun's care and sacrifices herself, leaving both Gi-hun and Myung-gi devastated. The VIPs vote to allow the baby to remain in the game as Player 222. Off the island, Gyeong-seok and No-eul manage to escape but are tracked by guards sent by the Masked Officer. In the dormitory, after it was announced that Jun-hee's baby will replace her mother as Player 222, some players, especially Jeong-dae's group, angrily try to harm the child but are stopped by the guards. Starting this round, players are no longer allowed to assault or kill each other outside of a game. Jeong-dae's group plots to eliminate Gi-hun, the baby, and Min-su in the next game, with Myung-gi pretending to join them. Before the final round, Gi-hun is summoned by In-ho, who proposes a secret deal: remove the remaining players to ensure his and the baby's survival. He then reveals he was actually secretly "Oh Young-il", leaving Gi-hun shocked and enraged. Elsewhere, Woo-seok manages to inform Jun-ho that Captain Park was acting on In-ho's orders. Park kills most of the team before Jun-ho mortally injures him. Park admits the truth in his last breath, strengthening Jun-ho's resolve to uncover the truth and find his brother. Meanwhile, the Masked Officer pressures No-eul into returning to the island by threatening to go after Gyeong-seok and his daughter. She complies, ensuring his escape before returning herself.
21	5	"○△□"	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Hwang Dong-hyuk	June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
Gi-hun debates whether to accept In-ho's offer to kill the remaining players, but ultimately refuses after the memory of Kang Sae-byeok tells him that he is a good person at heart. Simultaneously, In-ho recalls how he killed other players during the 2015 games under Oh Il-nam's instruction. The next day, Gi-hun, Myung-gi, and the rest of the finalists – including the baby – advance to the final game. No-eul returns to the island, confronts the Officer at gunpoint, and forces him to erase all digital records of Gyeong-seok's participation. A violent fight ensues, ending with No-eul killing the Officer and burning all remaining physical records of the players, including one of herself as a guard. The final game, "Sky Squid Game", requires players to push at least three opponents off of three elevated platforms through three rounds. A hallucinating Min-su is pushed off in the first round; Myung-gi pushes Player 336 in the second and reveals himself to be the baby's biological father. Gi-hun kills Player 203 in self-defense, while Myung-gi pushes Player 353. Jeong-dae begs for mercy, but Myung-gi pushes him as well. Player 039 commits suicide by falling off. Off the island, Jun-ho successfully rescues Gyeong-seok and executes the guards sent to capture him.
22	6	"Humans Are..." Transliteration: "Sarameun..." (Korean: 사람은...)	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Hwang Dong-hyuk	June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27)
After burning the records room, No-eul contemplates suicide, but chooses not to. With only Myung-gi, Gi-hun and the baby left, Myung-gi plans to have Gi-hun give him the baby so he can throw it off and prevent Gi-hun from crossing, thus winning the entire prize, but Gi-hun eventually manages to get across. A fight leads to Myung-gi falling to his death, though this does not count as the game had not officially started. Gi-hun then presses the button to begin and chooses to sacrifice himself, declaring in his final words that the players were "humans, not horses", before throwing himself off the edge. His death shocks the VIPs, and influences In-ho to rescue the baby as the island is set to self-destruct as the Coast Guard begin closing in. Jun-ho, the VIPs, No-eul and the staff manage to evacuate in time. Six months later, Gyeong-seok reunites with his daughter and meets No-eul, who prepares to travel to China where her daughter may be; Sae-byeok's brother, Cheol, reunites with his mother. Woo-seok is released from prison and plans to renovate and open Gi-hun's fortified hotel. Meanwhile, In-ho leaves the baby and the prize money to Jun-ho. He also visits Gi-hun's daughter in Los Angeles to inform her of his death and give her his bloody Player 456 tracksuit and remaining winnings. After leaving, In-ho notices an American recruiter playing ddakji with a man, revealing the existence of the games abroad.

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100^[31]
Rotten Tomatoes	78%^[32]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Metro	^[33]
The Telegraph	^[34]
The Guardian	^[35]

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