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Shows that feel likeFear the Walking Dead (2015–2023)

What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

If you loved Fear the Walking Dead, the closest series we have are The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023), The Last Ship (2014) and Falling Skies (2011). All three share Fear the Walking Dead's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Into the Badlands (2015).

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If Fear the Walking Dead hit the spot, these will too

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The Walking Dead: Dead City
2023– · 3 seasons · AMC
★ 7action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Survivors picking through a ruined city, old grudges as lethal as the dead

The difference: A tight two-hander spin-off — no sprawling ensemble to keep track of

Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

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The Last Ship
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Ordinary competence pressed against a collapse nobody prepared for

The difference: Military-mission optimism — a cure to chase, not just somewhere to sleep

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

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

Civilians turned fighters, families held together in a wrecked country

The difference: An alien war with a winnable end — more hopeful, less grim wandering

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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Sweet Home
2020–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

One thread runs through both: survival

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Fear the Walking Dead

As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.

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Into the Badlands
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · AMC
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

A ruined future ruled by whoever holds the weapons, crossed on foot

The difference: Stylised martial-arts fantasy — choreography over squalid survival

In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

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High School of the Dead
2010 · 1 season · AT-X
★ 7.1animation · action & adventure · dramaHulu

Ordinary people learning fast that hesitation gets them killed

The difference: Anime pulp with fan service

A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?

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Z Nation
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · Syfy
★ 6.7mystery · action & adventure · dramaPeacock

Survivors crossing the country with something worth protecting

The difference: Gory and openly comic

Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

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

A monster apocalypse and factions fighting over what is left

The difference: Vampires rather than walkers, 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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War of the Worlds
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5sci-fi & fantasy · drama

A family scattered by a collapse and trying to find each other

The difference: European alien invasion, slow and grieving

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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Has Fallen
2024– · 2 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5action & adventure · war & politicsHulu

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Fear the Walking Dead does

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 7.6drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureApple TV+

A harsh post-collapse world where tribes and violence set the rules

The difference: Mythic fantasy centuries later — swords and prophecy, not scavenged tins

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

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Vikings: Valhalla
2022–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Brutal roaming violence where loyalty decides who gets to live

The difference: Historical war epic — battles and ambition, not a world that ended

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

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