The Island is where the annual Squid Games competitions are held.
Description[]
The island has a curved shape that partially encloses a small part of the sea. It has a mountainous landscape and lush foliage covering the whole island.
Rooms[]
The island has multiple rooms in underground bunkers in order to maintain the secrecy of the games.
The Dormitory/Lobby[]
- Main article: Dormitory
The dormitory is where the players stay during the competition. It is a room made up of multiple bunk beds. As more of the bunk beds is removed following many players elimination, one can notice that there are several murals on the walls behind the bunk beds, which literally foreshadowed every game rounds the players played.
Stairs[]
Confusing sets of pastel-colored stairs lead to almost every room. The entrances are either a geometrically shaped arches that match with the windows or a normal door. Some doors may only lead to a dead end. It is revealed in Season 2 that these stairs can lead to the Control Room, although its entrance required face-detecting scan to open it and will automatically closed once someone entering it unless something is blocking the sliding door.
Game Halls[]
Game Hall 1[]
Three green gates attached to the protruding houses open to an open-roofed room with a sandy floor and walls depicting houses surrounded by grassy fields under a blue sky. There is a doll in front of a tree at the end of the room. This is the only room shown that depends on natural sunlight for the light source. The retractable roof is painted to match the forest so it is camouflaged when closed.
In the final round, the door that Player 456 and 218 went through matches with the wallpaper and the field now has the squid game court. It also has a large black window for the VIPs to watch.
Game Hall 2[]
It is an room that has a giant playground - a swing, a slide, a roundabout, and monkey bars - with multiple sliding doors that matches the walls. The blue walls are drawn with simple clouds and sun rays around the light on top to look like the sun using crayons as if it is made to resemble a children's drawing.
Game Hall 3[]
The room is tall and has a wide elevated platform. The platform is connected to an elevator on each side of the room by a bridge. The elevator takes the players on a higher and thinner platform supported by tall beams. A guillotine is placed at the middle of the thin platforms to cut the rope. At the very bottom there is a dark entrance for the workers to collect eliminated players' bodies and a drain to easily wash off the blood with a hose.
Game Hall 4[]
The game hall resembles a small Korean neighborhood. The place structure and composition is slightly resembles that of a labyrinth. The orange walls and lighting makes it look like there is a sunset in the room.
Game Hall 5[]
The room is designed like a brightly lit circus tent with a high glass bridge for the Glass Stepping Stones.
White Room[]
It is a room painted stark white with stairs. The doors are guarded by soldiers and the only ones that have color. This room is usually used when finding teammates in team games. It doesn't appear in season 2, and the teams for the Pentathlon are formed in its hall.
Game Hall 6[]
The room is designed similar to the Sugar Honeycombs game hall- the blue walls are drawn with simple clouds. The entrance resembles an elementary school, with chalkboard depictions of a field day schedule. There are flags of multiple countries hung on a wire. A round track in the colors of the rainbow are marked with the numbers 1-5 at the starting point.
Game Hall 7[]
The room is designed like a theme park carousel. The inside has 50 doors in the repeating primary colors of the rainbow in a cylindrical shape. A carousel-like platform is in the middle of the room.
Management Area[]
Managers' Quarters[]
Rooms that the managers stay in. The interior of any of the managers' quarters hasn't been seen yet, but it is most likely large rooms with a little more necessities than those in the workers' and soldiers' quarters. The door has a number in front that corresponds to a manager's key.
Control Room[]
Managers monitoring the players
The dark room is filled with computers that are operated by managers that monitors and controls everything that happens on the island. The walls have flat screens that also monitor everything. The floor is also a screen that shows the remaining players, once they are eliminated their pictures are turned off.
VIPs' Rooms[]
This can be only accessed by a face detecting elevator, though there are tunnels that leads to different rooms within the place. The elevator opens to a hall with multiple rooms and a phone on the desk to call the VIPs.
There's a huge room with black and gold accents, filled with plants, a huge screen to view the games, and multiple fancy furniture for the VIPs to relax on. It has an unseen room where the VIPs change their clothing. There is also another room where Jun-ho takes the puma masked VIP. It has a black sofa in the middle and the walls are filled with colorful shapes.
The Host's Room[]
It is very similar to the VIPs' quarters; black and gold accents, a huge television screen to view the games and multiple rooms. The place contains a bedroom, a living room, the archives and multiple unseen ones. Since the host was unavailable, the front man watches the place.
The living room that contains a sofa, the aforementioned television screen, and a jazz concert diorama that moves and plays "Fly Me to the Moon" whenever it is turned on. It turns out the diorama stand is secretly housed a trapdoor that leads to the underground. The bedroom has a door that leads to the archives.
Workers' Quarters[]
A manager inspecting room No. 28
A compact bedroom with a bathroom between a toilet and a table near a sink. The door has a number in front that corresponds to a worker's key and a small opening for food.
Soldiers' Quarters[]
A room a little larger than the workers' quarters, it has the same necessities as in the workers' quarters. The door has a number in front that corresponds to a soldier's key.
Kitchen[]
A large industrial kitchen. The night before Sugar Honeycombs, workers are seen melting sugar in large pots to prepare for the game. Later on, Number 28 reveals a hidden passage behind a large refrigerator/drawer which eventually leads to the Underground Cave.
Underground Cave[]
A small cave that leads to the ocean and it is filled with multiple dive packs.
Weaponry Room[]
A room which housed many firearms that used by the soldiers in lockers. Each locker has a number that corresponds to the soldiers.
Trivia[]
- The stairs are inspired by M.C. Escher's work called "Relativity"[1].
- The island is filmed in Seungbong-ri, an island in the Ongjin-gun county of Incheon, on the Yellow Sea. The island's location within the series is unknown, though.
- Players and staff travel to the island on a ferry from a location called Moojin Port, located in Busan.
- As teasers for Season 2 and Season 3, Netflix released Backrooms-themed videos showing parts of the filming set for the stair area and various rooms[2][3].