Netflix reveals 'Squid Game' Season 3 premiere date: Here's when the show returns

The games are set to resume this summer.

The third and final season of "Squid Game" will premiere June 27, Netflix announced Wednesday during an event previewing its 2025 slate. The season promises deadly new games, one of which involves a giant gumball machine.

New photos from the season also show Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) handcuffed after his failed rebellion in the Season 2 finale.

Seasons 2 and 3 of the South Korean "Squid Game," Netflix's biggest global hit, were filmed back-to-back, hence the short six-month wait compared to the three-year hiatus between Seasons 1 and 2.

'Squid Game' Season 2 finale: Director spills on cliffhanger, Season 3

Released in December, Season 2 of "Squid Game" saw Gi-hun, known as Player 456, voluntarily return to the games in an attempt to find the creators and end them once and for all. By the finale, his effort to lead a rebellion against the game's overlords was thwarted, leaving his fate unclear and ending the season on a massive cliffhanger. Player 001 also revealed himself to be the Front Man, who entered the games posing as an ordinary player.

"Gi-hun has a huge sense of loss, defeat and guilt weighing on him," series director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk previously told USA TODAY. "When he is just filled with complete, utter loss and guilt after all of his attempts (to stop the games) fail, I thought that was the adequate ending to give closure to the second season."

'Squid Game' Season 3: What we know so far

Netflix said Season 2 of "Squid Game" set a new record for most views for a show in its premiere week. The streamer highlighted it as one of its biggest hits returning in 2025, alongside new seasons of "Stranger Things" and "Wednesday."

'Stranger Things' creators tease final season as 'our most personal story'

The final season of "Stranger Things" was also teased during Netflix's Wednesday event.

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer described Season 5 as the "biggest and most ambitious season yet" and revealed they shot over 650 hours of footage to create eight long episodes.

"At the same time, we think it's our most personal story," Matt Duffer said. "It was super intense and emotional to film, for us and for our actors. We've been making this show together for almost 10 years. There was a lot of crying. There was so much crying."

Millie Bobby Brown cries reading emotional speech on 'Stranger Things' final season set

But the Duffers noted this is "not goodbye for 'Stranger Things,'" and said there will be more stories told in its universe, including "Stranger Things: The First Shadow," coming to Broadway in March.

"There are more 'Stranger Things' stories to tell and in the works," Matt Duffer teased. "It's bit early at this point to talk about them, but we're deeply involved in every one."

The premiere date for "Stranger Things" Season 5 has not yet been announced, but it will arrive later in 2025. Perhaps in time for Halloween?

Other shows previewed Wednesday include "The Four Seasons," a new comedy series from Tina Fey starring Fey, Will Forte and Steve Carell, based on the 1981 movie directed by Alan Alda. Fey noted it gave her a chance to work with "my old friends" Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, both of whom wrote for her show "30 Rock."

"Tracey and I won an Emmy together for writing the final episode of '30 Rock,' an Emmy night I'll never forget because I had a nipple slip on the broadcast and I found out the next day from my mother," Fey joked.

No new "Wednesday" footage was shown, but Netflix confirmed the highly anticipated second season, which recently wrapped production, will also be out "later this year."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: When is 'Squid Game' Season 3 out? Netflix reveals premiere date