What time will ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 land on Netflix?

Let the games begin.

A new season of the hit dystopian drama “Squid Game” will premiere on Netflix the day after Christmas.

“Squid Game” Season 2 will pick up three years after the first season left off, and the games are going to be “as sinister as ever,” Netflix said on its Tudum blog.

Player 456, or Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), will return to the competition and face a series of new opponents vying for the prize of 45.6 billion won — and this time around, he is on a mission to put an end to the deadly games.

Lee Jung-jae will return as Seong Gi-hun in “Squid Game” Season 2. No Ju-han / Netflix

Gi-hun will be “a different person” in the new season, director Hwang Dong-hyuk told Entertainment Weekly in September.

“In season 2, you will not be getting the foolish and clumsy or childish at times Gi-hun that you saw in the beginning,” Hwang said. “You will get to see a much heavier, darker side.”

Other characters will return from Season 1, including Front Man (Lee-Byung-hun), Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) and the Recruiter (Gong Yoo), according to Netflix.

Several newcomers will also join the cast for the upcoming season, including South Korean boy band singer Yim Si-wan, “When the Camellia Blooms” star Kang Ha-neul and “A Good Day to Be a Dog” star Park Gyu-young.

When the first season of “Squid Game” premiered in September 2021, it became Netflix’s biggest series launch ever, with 111 million subscribers tuning into the nine-episode dystopian series during its first month.

The show went on to rack up an audience of 330 million viewers, who watched a cumulative 2.8 billion hours of the series, Variety reported earlier this month.

Read on for details about when “Squid Game” Season 2 will premiere on Netflix in December.