Squid Game

Series Similar to Squid Game

If you enjoyed Squid Game, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Glory

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, also on Netflix.

   Moon Dong Eun had to drop out of school because of school violence. Since then, she has lived with thoughts of revenge. Years later, her main abuser got married and gave birth to a child. The former victim becomes this child's homeroom teacher when he goes to elementary school. So begins her long and difficult path of revenge. It targets not only the main offender, but also all those who watched the violence, but did nothing. Joo Ye Jung is a carefree and smiling guy. Instead of being the fairy prince Dong Eun, he decides to become the means of her revenge.

2. Bloodline

   2015 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, also on Netflix.

   Bloodline is a dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.

3. Thirteen

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   After thirteen years held captive by her kidnapper, Ivy Moxam escapes. Piecing back together the version of family life that existed before is no easy task.

4. ¿Quién mató a Sara?

   2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, also on Netflix.

   His sister was killed in a freak "accident", for which he was blamed. While trying to find what actually happened, Alex Guzmán will uncover the darkest secrets of the Lazcano family, stopping at nothing until everyone is held accountable.

5. Taboo

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, highly rated (8.3).

   1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal.

6. Revenge

   2011 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   This is not a story about forgiveness; Revenge is a show about retribution. Meet Emily Thorne, the newest resident of The Hamptons. When she was a little girl (and known as Amanda Clarke) her father, David Clarke, was framed for a horrific crime and subsequently sent to prison. While serving his time, the conspirators plotted and murdered David in order to prevent the truth from coming out. Emily is now back with a new identity and ready to take vengeance on the people that murdered her father and stole her childhood.

7. Alice in Borderland

   2020 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, also on Netflix.

   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 survive.Every episode lists different main cast in the opening sequence (beside the two main which are there throughout the entire series).

8. Through the Darkness

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.

9. God's Gift: 14 Days

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.

10. The Night Agent

    2023 · Action, Thriller, Mystery · returning

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, also on Netflix.

    The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.