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Shows that feel like LIAR GAME (2026–)

If you loved LIAR GAME, the closest series we have are Yellowjackets (2021), Servant (2019) and High-Rise Invasion (2021). All three share LIAR GAME's unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

When Nao Kanzaki receives a strange letter and a suitcase containing 100 million yen, she learns that she has been selected to participate in the LIAR GAME. In this high-stakes psychological battle, lies, deception, and betrayal reign supreme. Naïve and honest, Nao turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant former con artist, to survive the twisted game. In a game built on lies, can honesty prevail?

7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · TV Tokyocontemplativeplayfulunsettling
Stream it:Crunchyroll

If LIAR GAME hit the spot, these will too

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Yellowjackets
2021– · 4 seasons · Showtime
7.7drama · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: psychological thriller and lgbt

The difference: Not nearly as playful as LIAR GAME

This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

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Servant
2019–2023 · 4 seasons · Apple TV
7.4drama · mystery

Common ground: psychological thriller

The difference: None of the play LIAR GAME is built on

A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.

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High-Rise Invasion
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
6.5animation · mystery · action & adventure

One thread runs through both: based on manga

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than LIAR GAME does

High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. Finding a way to survive this bizarre world, find her beloved brother, and escape becomes her top priority, but she is beset by danger not just from the mysterious Masks, which possess both inhuman strength and cruelty, but other survivors turned cruel or desparate by the insanity of the high-rise world.

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Lucky
2026 · 1 season · Apple TV
6.6drama · crime

Both are built on the same subject: con artist

When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life—and a way out.

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xxxHOLiC
2006–2008 · 2 seasons · TBS
7.6animation · sci-fi & fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: seinen

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by ayakashi spirits, both of which are invisible to everyone else but him. The series begins when Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants wishes. The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value; so, as payment, he must become Yūko's temporary, part-time cook and housekeeper.

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Classroom of the Elite
2017– · 4 seasons · AT-X
7.7animation · drama · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: based on manga

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month and allows unusual freedom in classes, masking a more complex system.

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Alice in Borderland
2020–2025 · 3 seasons · Netflix
7.8mystery · drama · action & adventure

One thread runs through both: game

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

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Behind Her Eyes
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
7.2mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Contemplative where it counts, unsettling underneath

A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.

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Kakegurui
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · MBS
7.1animation · mystery · crime

Contemplative animation, and it commits to that

Run by a corrupt and sadistic school council, the “system” at Hyakkaou is based on gambling, with losers who cannot cover their debts being demeaned by their peers and forced to serve their debtholders. And if that’s not terrifying enough, some games can result in losing an eye, one’s fingernails, or even their life! But the system is shocked when transfer student Yumeko Jabami arrives. Dark, mysterious and attractive, she’s a wildcard who plays for the thrill of it…

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Sharp Objects
2018 · 1 season · HBO
8crime · drama · mystery

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

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Hannibal
2013–2015 · 3 seasons · NBC
8.5drama · crime

One thread runs through both: lgbt

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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The Chestnut Man
2021–2026 · 2 seasons · Netflix
7.6drama · crime · mystery

Contemplative drama in both cases

At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child.

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