Squid Game Season 2’s coming out this year, so if you’re looking for more similar movies and television series, we’ve got you covered.
What movies and TV shows to watch if you enjoyed Squid Game?
Before our recommendations, let’s break down what kind of show Squid Game is first — psychological thriller and death games, with a sprinkle of morality. In addition to the 11 “death games” shows to watch, we’ve included a few bonus psychological thrillers and South Korean action-gore series that’s available on Netflix as of November 2024.
Death games
1. Alice in Borderland (2020)
2. The 8 Show (2023)
3. Saw (2004)
4. As The God’s Will (2014)
5. Circle (2015)
6. Platform (2019)
7. Battle Royale (2000)
8. The Hunger Games (2012)
9. Nerve (2016)
10. Ready or Not (2019)
11. Escape Room (2019)
12. Truth or Dare (2018)
Psychological thriller
13. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
14. The Call (2020)
15. Girl from Nowhere (2018)
South Korean action-gore
16. All of Us Are Dead (2022)
17. Sweet Home (2020)
Death games series and movies like Squid Game
1. Alice in Borderland (2020)
Centred around intense death games, Alice in Borderland explores the thin line between life and death in a gripping tale of survival and unravelling mysteries.
This Japanese thriller starts with a disillusioned gamer and his friends, who are transported to a parallel Tokyo. To survive, they must navigate deadly games, each with its unique challenges. As alliances form and betrayals unfold, the characters face existential threats in this mysterious and treacherous world.
2. The 8 Show (2024)
Eight regular citizens, at their slumps, are picked off the streets to participate in a life-changing reality game show. The longer they play, the more money they walk off with — with a chance to potentially turn their lives around. However, with a countdown clock ticking, how far will the participants go to maximise their winnings.
3. Saw (2004)
Saw featuring two amnesic strangers who find themselves trapped, awakening in a mysterious room. As they grapple with their memory loss, a chilling revelation unfolds — they are unwilling participants in a lethal game orchestrated by a notorious serial killer. The enigmatic room becomes the stage for their fight for survival, and the duo must figure out how to escape the torture chamber.
After the first film, nine subsequent sequels were made following the suspenseful death game.
4. As the God’s Will (2014)
Based on the eponymous manga, As The God’s Will is a supernatural psychological thriller where students across Japan are forced to participate in death games inspired by nostalgic childhood games. Beyond surviving, the winners are determined to find out what’s the mysterious force controlling these unbelievable games.
5. Circle (2015)
50 people wake in a dark room standing in a circle. They learn that someone is killed off randomly every two minutes, and that they’ll die if they walk away from their designated spot. The only way to prolong your survival, is to vote for who dies next.
A game of manipulation and morality, how would the participants choose who to kill off next?
6. Platform (2019)
A man, Gopeng, volunteers to spend six months in a large, tower-style “Vertical Self-Management Center” in exchange for a diploma.
He wakes up on a prison cell, and learns that a giant platform descends from the first floor to the bottom, carrying enough food for every inmate. However, there is no restriction to how much food you can consume, inevitably resulting in scarcity when the platform reaches the bottom.
With six months to go, and a random shuffle of levels every month, how would Gopeng survive?
7. Battle Royale
Adapted from a controversial novel, this famous movie was released in 2000 with the background of a dystopian future, “Battle Royale” forces students into a government-sanctioned killing competition set on a deserted island with limited resources. Friendships crumble as survival becomes paramount. Some choose to look for a way out while some others start killing each other.
The movie has a sequel of Battle Royale II: Requiem that was released in 2003. The story centred around another ninth grader set in pairs tricked to have a “field trip”, only for it to be a mission to kill the previous survivor of Battle Royale who became a group of terrorists called Wild Seven who wants to bring the government down. The students was told to kill the leader, Shuya Nanahara in 72 hours.
The film, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, received acclaim for its intense narrative and won awards for its impact on global cinema and Takashi Kitano’s performance.
8. The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games unfolds in a divided dystopian society where The Capitol rulers impose the annual Hunger Games, a televised fight-to-the-death among tributes from each district.
Katniss Everdeen, volunteering to protect her sister, navigates the deadly arena alongside Peeta Mellark. As they defy the Capitol’s control, a rebellion brews with the Mockingjay as a symbol of justice. The survival game becomes chaos fireback for The Capitol. Adapted from a novel trilogy, the movie aired as four different parts.
If you haven’t gotten enough of The Hunger Games after it’s finale in in 2015, the brand new Hunger Games sequel — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) — reveals the secrets behind the rebellion that started 64 years before Katniss Everdeen’s era, featuring the young President Snow.
9. Nerve (2016)
An online “Truth or Dare” game emerges, where you can sign up as a Player or a Watcher.
Accept a dare, win money. It’s as simple as that… until the dares start getting out of hand. Joining teams, the leads of the movie, Dave Franco and Emma Roberts, work together to find out who’s being this platform.
10. Ready or Not (2019)
How good do you think you are at games?
Well, you better be good enough to win a game of Hide-and-Seek. As part of a family tradition, Grace, the new bride, has to play a game with the family. She picks a game, Hide-and-Seek, at random, and goes to hide.
All is good until one of the family members mistakes their housemaid as Grace, and kills her on the spot. Realising her fate, Grace has to figure out how to win this psychotic game.
11. Escape Room (2019)
Would you participate in an escape room with a chance to win $10,000?
The catch is — you might die if you don’t solve the puzzles in time. Zoey, a student, receives a mystery package with an invitation to participate in an escape room with five others. Little does she know what’s in store for her.
The sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, was released in 2021.
12. Truth or Dare (2018)
A group of college students plays a game of truth or dare while on vacation in Mexico, only to realise it has deadly consequences if they do not follow through on their obligations.
Psychological thrillers similar to Squid Game
13. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
Matias video calls his friends on his new secondhand laptop, only to realise that the data from the previous owner was not wiped out. Curiosity gets the better of him as he digs deeper — uncovering dark secrets he was never meant to see. But what he’s found is about to pull him and his friends into a deadly game from which there’s no escape.
14. The Call (2020)
Kim Seo-yeon visits her mother in a rural area and finds a decades-old cordless phone in her childhood home. It receives calls from a distressed woman who says she’s being tortured by her mother. After investigating the house, she figures out that the woman on the phone is living in the same house but in 1999. The two are able to communicate across time through the phone, and get to know each other, without understanding the devastating implications it brings.
15. Girl from Nowhere (2018)
A mysterious girl shows up in private schools all over Thailand, with the goal to expose all the lies, sins, and hypocrisy.
South Korean action-gore
16. All of Us Are Dead (2022)
The Korean film industry has been hailed as maestros of zombie films since Train to Busan (2016), and has continued to reign supreme with the recent release of All Of Us Are Dead.
This Korean Netflix series starts with a zombie attack on a regular day. It originated from a science experiment that went wrong in Hyosan High.Trapped in school, the story revolves around a group of students who struggle to survive. As chaos ensues, they confront not only the undead but also their own fears and relationships with friends and family.
This suspenseful TV series will bring you on a roller-coaster ride as the high school becomes ground zero of the virus outbreak. If you were in the same situation, will you kill or be killed?
17. Sweet Home
Adapted from a popular Webtoon series, Sweet Home is a horror Netflix series starting with Cha Hyun-soo, a reclusive teenager, as he moves into a mysterious apartment complex. Soon, monstrous transformations plague the residents, turning them into grotesque creatures reflective of their deepest desires and fears. As Hyun-soo fights for survival, he discovers the complex connection between the monstrous transformations and the human psyche. The series blends horror, suspense, and emotional depth, offering a unique exploration of inner demons amidst an apocalyptic nightmare.
When is Squid Game Season 2 coming out?
Season 2 of South Korean Netflix Series Squid Game will be released on 26 December 2024. This news has been officially announced by Netflix.
Where can I watch Squid Game online?
As of now, the only legitimate site to watch Squid Game Season 1 and Season 2 is Netflix.
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