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Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 release date: When the BAFTA winning competition series returns to Netflix

The competition series based on the hit Netflix drama is returning this fall.

Guides by Avery Kaplan, Contributing writer

Published on Tue Oct 21 2025

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Can’t get enough Squid Game? Netflix is well aware. Fortunately, Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 is coming soon to slake your lust for more of the breakout global sensation. So when will the release date for Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 on Netflix arrive?

The Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 release date is November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM PST on Netflix. The season will be released over the course of three weeks. It’s been a little less than two years since the previous season of the series concluded on December 6, 2023. Meanwhile, it’s been only a few months since the previous season of the scripted Korean series on which the competition is based, Squid Game, was released on June 27, 2025. Plus, a third season of Squid Game: The Challenge is also on its way. And of course, there are plenty of other TV release dates you'll want to keep track of this fall. Here’s the official trailer for Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2:

In The Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2, 456 contestants will compete for an incredible $4.56 million dollar prize. Bolstering the excitement will be all-new games and and unexpected twists, ensuring you’ll be on the edge of your seat throughout the season. And with a plethora of possibilities for eliminations, contestants will have to ask themselves if it’s worth making friends when there is a fortune on the line.

The release date for Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 on Netflix is November 4, 2025.

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Avery Kaplan: Avery lives and writes in Southern California. She is the co-author of Double Challenge: Being LGBTQ and a Minority with her spouse, Rebecca Oliver Kaplan. Avery is Features Editor at Comics Beat, and you can also find her writing on StarTrek.com, The Gutter Review, Geek Girl Authority, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.