Squid Game Isn't Over Yet—Spinoff "Possible," Says Creator
Squid Game might be heading into its final season, but the deadly playground games could live on.
Speaking to PEOPLE at the Season 3 premiere on June 18, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk teased that a spinoff could happen.
"I cannot just tell right now when and how it's going to happen," he said. "But there is a chance."
Not exactly a greenlight, but not nothing either.
The main show wraps with Season 3, which drops on June 27. Netflix has already confirmed it's the final season, picking up right where Season 2 left off: Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) reeling after a failed player rebellion and face-to-face with The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) — a.k.a. Hwang In-ho — who revealed himself in Season 2 just before murdering Park Jung-bae.
Netflix's official synopsis lays it out:
"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."
In other words: more psychological torment, more moral collapse, and probably more pastel-colored violence.
The trailer, which dropped during Netflix's Tudum 2025 event in May, shows Gi-hun spiraling: "Why didn't you kill me? Why did you keep me alive? Why did you let me live?" he screams while restrained.
The games resume — including a round of lethal jump rope, because of course — and the season builds toward a final showdown in the control room between Gi-hun and The Front Man. "Player 456, do you still have faith in people?" he asks, as the trailer cuts out.
So while Season 3 looks like the end of this particular story, Hwang's spinoff tease means we might not be done with the Squid Game universe just yet. No details, no timeline, just a maybe — but if there's one thing Squid Game has taught us, it's that anything is on the table. Even the rigged ones.