9 shows and movies to watch after Squid Game

nine shows and movies to watch after Squid Game

Park Hae-soo, Lee Jung-jae and Jung Ho-yeon star in Squid Game

(Image credit: Netflix)

Squid Game has taken the globe by storm. The Korean drama has become one of Netflix's biggest hits for its violent, twisted take on popular children's games like Red Light, Green Light. The well-drawn characters and thought-provoking examination of capitalism are also why TG staffers are among the millions of viewers who can't stop watching Squid Game.

Once you've binged all ix episodes, you may be left craving more than. Netflix has withal to announce Squid Game season 2, only luckily, at that place are similar shows and movies to fill the void. Nosotros've compiled a list of what you lot should watch afterward Squid Game.

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Alice in Frontier

Like Squid Game, Alice in Borderland features characters who must play and win games or face deadly consequences. As you might imagine, it's also a trigger-happy and bloody exploration of human nature. Based on a manga of the aforementioned name, the series follows hardcore video game enthusiast Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and friends who get trapped in an alternate, dystopian version of Tokyo. In that location, they are forced to play a series of games, like Tag and Hide and Seek. If they win, they survive and advance. If they lose, they dice. If they sit out a game, their "visa" to the Borderlands expires and (you guessed it) they dice.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
Rating: Telly-MA
Streaming on Netflix

Boxing Royale

The cast of Battle Royale — (Epitome credit: Toei Company)

If you've e'er played Fortnite, yous know the premise of the 2000 Japanese movie Battle Royale. Based on a novel by Koushun Takami, it's one of the most influential films in the genre (many see The Hunger Games, among others, as owing a lot to Battle Royale). In a totalitarian society, a class of ninth graders are sent to a deserted island, and each is given a weapon, a map and supplies. If iii days pass and more than one of them survives, they will all die. Which means the kids have to kill each other until there's ane winner remaining. Battle Royale was so controversial in its day that it was banned in several countries, and never got an official U.S. release.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Rating: NR
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Sweet Home

This Korean fantasy horror drama checks a few of the same boxes as Squid Game: survival, deep relationships and violence. Sweet Home centers on a grouping of people who lock themselves in their flat building when monsters start wiping out all of humanity. Later on people are killed, they turn into monsters that reverberate their inner desires, like one resident who becomes a Glutton Monster. Teenager Hyun-soo (Song Kang) bands together with some neighbors in a bid to survive. They all have their own emotional baggage, creating a tense environment in the building all while the monsters casualty on them.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
Rating: Idiot box-MA
Streaming on Netflix

3%

The life or decease scenario in three% is more figurative than literal, but, just like with Squid Game, the Brazilian dystopian thriller is a provocative meditation on course inequality and capitalism. In the prove, well-nigh of the world lives in poverty on the inland. Only iii% of people live on the Offshore, a colony in glorious utopian harmony. Every year, 20-year-olds are given the chance to go to the Offshore. To go in that location, they must have office in a series of tests, ranging from a simple interview to solving a fake crime scene. Whoever passes "the Process" doesn't win coin but an escape from their bleak lives into paradise.

Rotten Tomatoes score: N/A
Rating: Telly-MA
Streaming on Netflix

As the Gods Volition

Similar to Squid Game, the 2014 Japanese supernatural horror flick too features mortiferous rounds of children'southward games like Red Light, Greenish Light. The story follows Shun Takahata (Sota Fukushi), a high school student who spends a lot of time playing violent video games. I day, his school turns into a battle royale arena, where he and his friends must fight to survive. They're not the just ones, either; kids all over Nippon and the residuum of the world are facing similar tests. Shun and the other players compete for their lives, and also to notice out who's behind this demented state of affairs.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 57%
Rating: TV-MA
Buy on Vudu

Escape Room

In this 2019 thriller, six strangers receive mysterious invitations to participate in an escape room with a $100,000 prize. They come from different backgrounds — one is a college student, another is a wealthy day trader and a tertiary is an Army veteran. Once they enter the complex, information technology's locked and they discover the levels become increasingly deadly. They also realize that some of the rooms remind them that they're all sole survivors of various disasters, like a plane crash or a motorcar accident. Simply which one will exist the ultimate sole survivor?

Rotten Tomatoes score: 51%
Rating: PG-xiii
Rent on Amazon

#Alive

Like Sweet Home, #Alive doesn't revolve arounds games. The 2020 Korean motion-picture show is a survival story that features a friendship congenital during a harrowing time — very much the vibe of Gi-hun and Il-nam in Squid Game. Joon-woo (Yoo Ah-in) is a young human being who is lonely in his family unit'southward apartment when a zombie outbreak begins. He barricades himself inside, but begins to lose his listen when food, water and internet access run out. On the verge of suicide, Joon-woo sees a signal from someone in the building opposite from him. They transport supplies over a zipline, and bond using a walkie-talkie. Only the zombies are relentless, and so the pair will have to work together to stay live.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Rating: Tv set-MA
Streaming on Netflix

Darwin's Game

Based on the manga of the same name, the anime series follows Kaname Sudo, a high school educatee who receives an invitation to play an app game. When he opens the app, Kaname learns he'due south joined a mortiferous battle where players fight i another with superpowers chosen Sigils. Unlike other battle royale stories, Darwin's Game doesn't strength people to participate. Instead, they choose to play, for money or ego or other reasons. Kaname, meanwhile, goes ahead in a quest to end the game for adept.

Rotten Tomatoes score: N/A
Rating: Television-14
Streaming on Netflix

The Hunger Games

It feels a piffling silly to fifty-fifty include this blockbuster franchise on the listing, since millions of people all over the world accept seen information technology. Still, if you lot somehow missed The Hunger Games, and so this is your opportunity to catch up. The movies are set in a dystopian world divided into districts of varying wealth. Every year, the districts must send ii teens to the titular deathmatch, where only one leaves live. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is from the very poor District 12 and enters the Games afterward taking her younger sister'southward place. Using hunting skills gained from fourth dimension in the wood, Katniss is completely focused on making information technology out of the arena and back to her family. While The Hunger Games isn't as violent or gory every bit Squid Game, it grapples with similar themes of rich vs. poor and the human condition.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%
Rating: PG-13
Streaming on Hulu

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Kelly is a senior writer roofing streaming media for Tom's Guide, so basically, she watches TV for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment writer for Yahoo, Vulture, TV Guide and other outlets. When she'south not watching TV and movies for work, she'southward watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.