Ink Game event
Ink Game: Sky Squid Games — What It Included
Sky Squid Games was a week-long themed update to Ink Game, the Roblox survival title where players are dropped into deadly playground contests and eliminated round by round. It ran from August 9 to August 16, 2025, leaning hard into the show that inspired the whole genre: the developer billed it as a fight to “survive, and make brutal decisions under pressure,” and framed it as an update “unlike any other.” More than 700,000 players marked themselves as interested before it opened, one of the larger turnouts the game has seen for a single event.
Ink Game is one of Roblox’s genuinely large survival experiences, with billions of lifetime visits and tens of thousands of people in matches at any given moment. An update like this one wasn’t a side mode tucked away in a menu; it reshaped the main loop for the week it was live, which is why the interest count climbed so quickly ahead of launch.
Ink Game
SKY SQUID GAMES
Fight for your life
Aug 9, 5:00 PM – Aug 16, 1:00 PM ET
Sky Squid Games adds a new survival round to Ink Game built around fighting on and making split-second choices under pressure.
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What the Sky Squid Games update included
The update built the week around a Squid Game-style gauntlet: high-stakes elimination rounds where a single wrong move ended your run and the pressure ratcheted up as the field thinned. Rather than a cosmetic drop, it was a new run of contests bolted onto the core survival format the game is known for, with the theme carried through the setting and the escalating stakes the developer described. If you played Ink Game for the tension of the last-one-standing rounds, this was the update tuned to push that as far as it went.
When it ran
Sky Squid Games opened on August 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET and closed on August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET — a run of just under a week. The exact window, along with the equivalent times across the major world time zones, is on the card above. Like most of Ink Game’s themed updates, it was a limited window rather than a permanent addition, so the mode and anything tied to it wrapped when the event ended.
How it fit Ink Game’s schedule
Ink Game runs on a steady cadence of short themed updates, each live for one to two weeks before the next takes over, so no single event needs to be a can’t-miss — another is rarely more than a couple of weeks away. Since Sky Squid Games, the developer has kept that pace going: a Tug Of War rework, a queue-and-balancing pass, extended guard support, and a quality-of-life update all shipped in the first half of 2026, and an Anniversary Update is live now through July 19, 2026. If you missed Sky Squid Games, that same rhythm means themed weeks like it come around again.
FAQ
When did the Sky Squid Games event end?
The Sky Squid Games event ended on August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET. It had been live since August 9, a run of just under a week.
What was in the Sky Squid Games event?
Sky Squid Games added a Squid Game-inspired run of elimination contests to Ink Game, with high-pressure survival rounds where one mistake ended your run. The developer described it as a fight to survive and make brutal decisions under pressure.
Is the Ink Game Sky Squid Games event still going?
No. Sky Squid Games closed on August 16, 2025, and the themed mode was a limited-time run rather than a permanent addition. Ink Game has shipped several new updates since, including an Anniversary Update in July 2026.
How many players were interested in Sky Squid Games?
More than 700,000 players marked themselves as interested before the event opened, making it one of the bigger pre-launch turnouts for a single Ink Game update.