Before entering, each inmate is interviewed and chooses one kind of food, which will be provided each day on a dish when the platform stops at their floor.

They learn about "The Messiah," a mythical figure who allegedly survived a month without food through meditation, then sacrificed his own leg to feed others on the lowest levels.

Sahabat, missing an arm, shares her harrowing experiences with a particularly brutal anointed one named Dagin Babi.

But Dagin is systematically killing not only accused Barbarians throughout the prison but also loyalists who make minor infractions.

When Dagin and his followers arrive to punish them for disobeying a law, they kill Sahabat and cut off one of Perempuan’s arms.

She discovers that the facility keeps children as tools to manipulate prisoners, using them as false symbols of hope or to prevent escape attempts.

In May 2023, Netflix reported the beginning of filming of the follow-up with Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia returning as director and starring Hovik Keuchkerian and Milena Smit.

[11] In his review for The Guardian, Jesse Hassenger noted that while the film's "Grindhouse thought experiments" are engaging and suggest a stronger interest in speculative fiction than a singular thematic message, it ultimately falls short.

He critiqued the film for moving too quickly and carelessly to develop its characters, stating that although Perempuán emerges as the lead and Smit performs well, the story lacks stability, constantly shifting beneath her.

[12] Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com delivered a scathing review of The Platform 2, criticizing the film for offering little beyond repeating the original.

He argued that the movie quickly falls into rehashing the same "premonitions and metaphors" from its predecessor, even bringing back a character from the first film without adding anything new.

Daniels went on to suggest that it might have been better if The Platform 2 had never been released, ultimately giving the film a rating of one and a half stars out of five.