Beast Games 2024

Beast Games is a reality competition television series created by YouTuber James "Jimmy" Donaldson, Tyler Conklin, Sean Klitzner, and Mack Hopkins. Hosted by Donaldson, Beast Games follows contestants—the largest cast for a reality show—as they compete for $5 million, advertised as the largest single cash prize in reality television history. Inspired by the viral Netflix show Squid Game and Donaldson's viral video "$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!", the first two episodes of Beast Games were released on Amazon Prime Video on December 19, 2024, with the first full season consisting of ten episodes released weekly on Thursdays. On the same day, Donaldson also released a video of tryouts for the game show on his YouTube channel titled "2,000 People Fight for $5,000,000", where he cut the number of people participating from 2,000 to 1,000 in a series of challenges.