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Shows that feel likeAdventure Time (2010–2018)

Young Finn and his shape-shifting dog buddy, Jake, go on a series of surreal adventures as they journey through the postapocalyptic Land of Ooo.

If you loved Adventure Time, the closest series we have are The Last Man on Earth (2015), DARLING in the FRANXX (2018) and 12 Monkeys (2015). All three share Adventure Time's bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Midnight Gospel (2020).

★ 8.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗10 seasons · Cartoon Networkcreated by Pendleton Wardwittyplayfulcerebraldreamlikebleak
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

If Adventure Time hit the spot, these will too

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The Last Man on Earth
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · FOX
★ 7.4drama · comedyHulu

Comedy set after the end of the world, with real loneliness under it

The difference: Live action and adult, and much more cynical

The year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who used to be just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank. Now, in his RV, Phil searches the country for other survivors.

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DARLING in the FRANXX
2018 · 1 season · TOKYO MX
★ 7.4animation · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Candy-colored surface over a ruined world and real loneliness

The difference: Hormonal mecha melodrama that collapses in its final stretch

The distant future: Humanity established the mobile fort city, Plantation, upon the ruined wasteland. Within the city were pilot quarters, Mistilteinn, otherwise known as the “Birdcage.” That is where the children live... Their only mission in life was the fight. Their enemies are the mysterious giant organisms known as Kyoryu. The children operate robots known as FRANXX in order to face these still unseen enemies. Among them was a boy who was once called a child prodigy: Code number 016, Hiro. One day, a mysterious girl called Zero Two appears in front of Hiro. “I’ve found you, my Darling.”

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12 Monkeys
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

A ruined future explained slowly through what caused it

The difference: Live-action sci-fi thriller, tense and adult

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

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The Midnight Gospel
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.2animation · comedy · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Ward's surrealism again, wandering worlds that turn quietly existential

The difference: Adult and talky — real podcast conversation under the animation

Traversing trippy worlds inside his universe simulator, Clancy the space caster explores existential questions about life, death and everything in between.

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Raised by Wolves
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · HBO Max
★ 7.4sci-fi & fantasy · drama

One thread runs through both: life after the end

The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than Adventure Time does

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

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Silo
2023– · 4 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.1sci-fi & fantasy · dramaApple TV+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: life after the end

The difference: Easier on the wit than Adventure Time

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

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Van Helsing
2016–2021 · 5 seasons · Syfy
★ 6.3mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventurePrime Video

A post-apocalyptic world where monsters are simply the landscape

The difference: Live-action horror action, grim and much cheaper

Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.

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Falling Skies
2011–2015 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Survivors making a home in the wreckage of the world that ended

The difference: Earnest live-action war drama — none of the surreal whimsy

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

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War of the Worlds
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Adventure Time does

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?

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Tokyo Ghoul
2014–2018 · 4 seasons · TOKYO MX
★ 7.7animation · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Bleak animation in both cases

Ken Kaneki, a bookworm college student, meets Rize, a girl his own age with whom he shares many interests.

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Sweet Tooth
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Sci-fi & fantasy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

On an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.

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Snowpiercer
2020–2024 · 4 seasons · TNT
★ 6.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime VideoHulu

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

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