The pentathlon in Squid Game: Unleashed on Netflix. Source: Netflix
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Squid Game mobile titles see spike with show’s final season launch week | AppMagic

Netflix‘s Squid Game: Unleashed scored growth this week thanks to the launch of the final season of the streaming television show a week ago.

Netflix did an update to the Unleashed mobile game, which had previously debuted with Season 2 and saw 20 million downloads it has seen since its release. The folks at AppMagic analyzed the history of the Squid Game franchise in games, and they found a spike in downloads, though it was smaller than in the past season.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.