July 10, 2025

Netflix announced today that Squid Game: The Challenge has been renewed for a third season. The pickup is an early one, coming ahead of Season 2, which we now know will premiere on November 4.

Based off the hit Korean drama, the competition series features the largest cast in reality TV history, bringing 456 players together to compete in games taken mostly from the TV show. Large numbers of contestants are eliminated in each episode until just three remain to battle it out in hopes of taking home the grand prize of $4.56 million - the biggest prize in reality show history.