Squid Game: The Challenge: Season 1

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Squid Game: The Challenge: Season 2 Announcement

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: November 22, 2023

Summary: The reality competitive series based on the series Squid Game features 456 contestants competing to possibly win $4.56 million.

Genre(s): Reality, Game Show

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Season Finale
Air Date: December 6, 2023
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S1:E9. Circle Of Trust
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E8. One Step Closer
Air Date: November 30, -0001

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Kristen Baldwin

Nov 20, 2023

With its eclectic cast and inventive updates to the original, Squid Game: The Challenge manages to serve up palpable suspense and authentic human drama without murdering a single contestant. Read full review

Radio Times Grace Henry

Nov 21, 2023

I had my doubts to begin with, but Squid Game: The Challenge not only lives up to the original show, but with the new twists, challenges, and the real-life prize fund at stake, it's even more intense than the hit show. Read full review

The Daily Beast Fletcher Peters

Dec 1, 2023

Squid Game: The Challenge is fully aware it’s a hokey reality show capitalizing on pre-existing content, and it doesn’t try to be anything more than that. Somehow, it still manages to employ new twists that match up to Squid Game’s intrigue. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

Nov 20, 2023

It’s overlong, overblown, and thinks it’s much smarter than it really is. But as a showcase for human desperation, and an illustration of the random brutality of chance, it just about sticks the landing. Read full review

Ross McIndoe

Nov 20, 2023

The challenges are padded out with interviews, reaction shots, and dramatic pauses that go on long after all the tension has been released. Ultimately, these are squib games that provide enough noise and motion for a passable simulacrum of the original show’s devastating drama. Read full review

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Nov 20, 2023

The feuds and alliances will likely heat up as the competition gets tighter, and the possibility of other new challenges adds some intrigue. But that first batch of five episodes is kind of a snooze. Squid Game: The Challenge is no match for Squid Game itself — and in the annals of reality contest shows, it's no great shakes either. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Nov 20, 2023

Although it gestures at some of the more complicated questions lurking beneath its existence, this is merely lip service without any real care or substance. All the gimmicks it throws in at the margins can't hide how morally bankrupt it is at its core. When we look back on the rise of streaming, Squid Game: The Challenge will be the show that saw the fires of hell and decided to find an even more craven low. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

52

Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: November 4, 2025
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 22, 2023
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  S1:E10. Season Finale
  Air Date: December 6, 2023
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  S1:E9. Circle Of Trust
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E8. One Step Closer
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E7. Friend And Foe
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E6. Goodbye
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E5. Trick Or Treat
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E4. Nowhere To Hide
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E3. War
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E2. The Man With The Umbrella
  Air Date: November 22, 2023
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  S1:E1. Red Light, Green Light
  Air Date: November 22, 2023