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Shows that feel likeSquid Game (2021–2025)

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

If you loved Squid Game, the closest series we have are Outer Banks (2020), The Day of the Jackal (2024) and Alchemy of Souls (2022). All three share Squid Game'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 The Night Agent (2023).

★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗3 seasons · Netflixcreated by Hwang Dong-hyukkineticepictwistycontemplative
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If Squid Game hit the spot, these will too

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Outer Banks
2020–2026 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.5action & adventure · mysteryNetflix

Class divides driving a dangerous treasure chase

The difference: Sun-soaked teen adventure

On a North Carolina island of haves and have-nots, John B and his tight-knit crew of friends find mystery and adventure while hunting for lost treasure.

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The Day of the Jackal
2024– · 1 season · Sky Atlantic
★ 8.1drama · action & adventure · mysteryPeacock

Cold professionals inside a machine that consumes people

The difference: One assassin's cat-and-mouse

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

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Alchemy of Souls
2022–2023 · 2 seasons · tvN
★ 8.7drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

Korean storytelling with strict rules and a heavy price for breaking them

The difference: Fantasy romance, ornate and swoony

She was named Naksu because wherever she went, a trail of heads followed. She performs the alchemy of souls, magic that can change people's bodies and souls, which is forbidden in Daeho, and ends up being chased. Naksu hurriedly abandons her body and attempts the alchemy of souls on a woman passing by. Jang Wook, the son of the King of Daeho, realizes that Mudeok's soul has been changed and helps her. Jang Wook wants to learn Naksu's martial arts and become a sorcerer, and Naksu, in the body of Mudeok, stays by his side so she can recover her strength.

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

The closest cousin — deadly games sorting the desperate

The difference: Puzzle-game logic, empty Tokyo

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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Moon Knight
2022 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · action & adventureDisney+

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Trades the stillness of Squid Game for an angle of its own

When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.

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The Boat
2011–2013 · 3 seasons · Antena 3
★ 7.2action & adventure · mystery · drama

Strangers trapped together as the rules collapse

The difference: Shipboard apocalypse mystery

A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and aware that we only have each other, the ship will become their only home.

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The Night Agent
2023– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · mysteryNetflix

An ordinary person pulled into a lethal conspiracy

The difference: DC thriller engine

Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.

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Lost
2004–2010 · 6 seasons · ABC
🍅 80%★ 8.3mystery · action & adventure · dramaHulu

Strangers, mysterious rules, and a game bigger than anyone

The difference: Island mythology sprawl

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

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Jupiter's Legacy
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaNetflix

A system that rewards a few and grinds everyone else

The difference: Superheroes and boardrooms, humourless and slow

As the world's first generation of superheroes (who received their powers in the 1930s) become the revered elder guard in the present, their superpowered children struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents.

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Terra Nova
2011 · 1 season · FOX
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · action & adventure

Both lean on twists more than on action & adventure

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Squid Game

In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past. An ordinary family goes on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a part of a massive expedition to save the human race.

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Sin senos sí hay paraíso
2016– · 3 seasons · Telemundo
★ 6.6action & adventure · crime · dramaPeacock

Desperation and debt driving people into brutal systems

The difference: Telenovela revenge arc

A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.

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Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area
2022 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 5.9action & adventure · crime · dramaNetflix

Korean class rage in a masked, high-stakes standoff

The difference: Heist remake structure

Disguised under the shadows of a mask, a crew of desperados band together under the leadership of a criminal mastermind known only as “The Professor” to pull off the biggest heist Korea has ever seen.

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