Thirteen borrowed lives stand between one man and a second chance, and Death is keeping score on every one of them.
What is Death's Game about?
Death's Game opens at the lowest point of a man's life, the moment he decides to end it, and turns that decision inside out. Death itself intervenes, not to save him but to test him, handing him a punishing assignment: live through thirteen different lives, each ending in its own death, before he earns the right to return to his own. Every new life drops him into a stranger's circumstances with no warning and no instructions, forcing him to feel out who that person was, what they stood to lose, and how their story is about to end. The series builds its tension less from any single mystery than from the accumulation of these lives, each one a compressed portrait of a person the protagonist never expected to understand. Seo In-guk carries the role across that shifting ground, while Park So-dam and Go Youn-jung anchor recurring threads that pull him back toward his own unfinished life.
About the cast
Seo In-guk plays the man cycling through thirteen lives, with Park So-dam and Go Youn-jung in key roles that recur across the series, and Kim Ji-hun, Kim Jae-wook, and Kim Mi-kyeong rounding out the cast that populates each of his borrowed lives.
Context & significance
Adapted from a popular webtoon, Death's Game belongs to a run of Korean fantasy dramas that use a high-concept premise, in this case a literal accounting of death, to examine ordinary regret and the value of a life rather than to build a conventional supernatural mystery. Director Ha Byung-hoon leans into that structure, letting the show shift tone and setting with each new life the protagonist is dropped into, from crime-adjacent tension to quiet domestic drama, which is part of why the series drew a strong critical reception on release.
Watching Death's Game on Ktime
Death's Game streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the protagonist's thirteen borrowed lives in their own language. A free K-Time account login is required to watch, though the show's page can be read without one, and the platform's interface is built with the Farsi-speaking diaspora audience in mind throughout.