
Shows that feel likeAdventure Time (2010–2018)
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).
If Adventure Time hit the spot, these will too

Comedy set after the end of the world, with real loneliness under it
The difference: Live action and adult, and much more cynical

Candy-colored surface over a ruined world and real loneliness
The difference: Hormonal mecha melodrama that collapses in its final stretch

A ruined future explained slowly through what caused it
The difference: Live-action sci-fi thriller, tense and adult

Ward's surrealism again, wandering worlds that turn quietly existential
The difference: Adult and talky — real podcast conversation under the animation

One thread runs through both: life after the end
The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than Adventure Time does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: life after the end
The difference: Easier on the wit than Adventure Time

A post-apocalyptic world where monsters are simply the landscape
The difference: Live-action horror action, grim and much cheaper

Survivors making a home in the wreckage of the world that ended
The difference: Earnest live-action war drama — none of the surreal whimsy

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Adventure Time does

Bleak animation in both cases

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

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy
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