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Shows that feel likeSteins;Gate (2011)

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

If you loved Steins;Gate, the closest series we have are American Gods (2017), Sense8 (2015) and The Expanse (2015). All three share Steins;Gate's cerebral and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016).

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If Steins;Gate hit the spot, these will too

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American Gods
2017–2021 · 3 seasons · STARZ
★ 7.6drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: conspiracy

The difference: Easier on the wit than Steins;Gate

An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.

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Sense8
2015–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Common ground: conspiracy

The difference: Trades the twists of Steins;Gate for an angle of its own

One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

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The Expanse
2015–2022 · 6 seasons · Syfy
★ 8.5drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

The same mix in both: ideas, then dream logic

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Steins;Gate does

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
2016–2026 · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.3animation · mystery · action & adventureHulu

The same two preoccupations: time travel, and tragedy

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

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Project Blue Book
2019–2020 · 2 seasons · History
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · drama

Twisty where it counts, paranoid underneath

A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.

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The X-Files
1993–2018 · 11 seasons · FOX
★ 8.6mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · crimeHuluDisney+

Sci-fi & fantasy built on ideas, twice over

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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Taboo
2017 · 1 season · BBC One
★ 8.3drama · mysteryPeacock

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

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Inside Job
2021–2022 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.7comedy · animationNetflix

Both land wit and play at once

For employees of the Deep State, conspiracies aren't just theories — they're fact. And keeping them a secret is a full-time job.

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

Animation with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

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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Bodyguard
2018 · 1 season · BBC One
★ 8crime · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Both lean on twists more than on comedy

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

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

Dreamlike animation in both cases

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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Person of Interest
2011–2016 · 5 seasons · CBS
★ 8.5action & adventure · crime · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

Cerebral sci-fi & fantasy, and it commits to that

John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 

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