The Wicked Game

Series Similar to The Wicked Game

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

1. Century of Love

   2024 · Drama, Action, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Romance profile, highly rated (8.3), hidden gem, also on One31.

   San accepts pain and suffering in exchange for eternal life, all for the sake of reuniting with his reincarnated former girlfriend. Just as the mysterious power is about to disappear, San meets Vee, a cheerful young man who seems connected to him.

2. KinnPorsche

   2022 · Drama, Action, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Romance profile, also on One31.

   Porsche, a down and out waiter who carries the hopes and dreams of his brother on his shoulders is thrust into the feuding world of the mafia. He reluctantly becomes a bodyguard for the major clan, which only brings more problems to his life. The main source of his strife is with Kinn, but the more obstacles and trials that they get through together the closer they become. The feelings of passion start to form between them and they soon fall in love with one another. Porsche has to encounter many mysteries that are too coincidental not to be connected. It all revolves around the death of his parents and the events of the will be a key variable in the transformation.

3. The Sign

   2023 · Drama, Action, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   For as long as Tharn can remember, he's had premonitions about those around him, sensing both the good and the bad. Partners on a team of special investigators, when kind and cheerful Tharn met clever and charming Phaya, it felt as though they'd known each other for a long time. 

4. Pit Babe

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on One31.

   Pit Babe tells the love story between a king racer with special abilities and a naive young man. This love started from unknown each other come be love and become hateful. When one day a hot, nerdy, innocent boy asked to join the racing team with the exchange that the king racer set up to satisfy one's own desires. But the fun quickly turned into love. One day he learns that young hot nerd actually has a hidden talent and it can destroy him. More complexity, when he realized that the innocent boy was sent by his hated father for some gray business. From passionate love Instead, he had to do everything to prove his innocence. If he still wants each other and this love of both of them are plenty of friendship, warmth, passion, betrayal and vengeance.

5. La Pluie

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on One31.

   Saengtai never believed in destiny or things such as ‘Soulmate' but rather in his ability to make his own choices. In every rainfall, the sound around him silences, making way for the voice of his soulmate to be heard. On the other hand, ‘Phat' patiently waited for the unfamiliar voice but had never been fortunate enough to hear it. Even in the midst of a downpour, the voice of his soulmate was elusive. Their differing beliefs were like a game of tug-of-war played in the rain, with a rope of fate pulled by a stubborn person trying to win the other's heart and a denying person trying to escape the truth. If destiny played a role, would Saengtai be able to go against the will, or would it be Phat, who had been played by destiny?

6. Hua Jai Sila

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on One31.

   Tor is a love child of a mistress and a wealthy hi-so man. After his mother dies from neglect, Tor is forced to live with his father's family . Abused by his stepmother and stepbrother, he turns to the girl-next-door, Mingta, who also suffers neglect at the hands of her so called mother and sister. One night, while being chased by his stepmother, Tor jumps into a river and is presumed dead, though he survives. He is taken under the wing of another prostitute who knew his mother and takes on a new life under the alias, Sila. Years later, he returns as a notorious, rich pimp, with plans to avenge his mother and to get revenge for the torture and pain brought to him by his stepmother and stepbrother. Sila's main goal is to hurt the people that hurt him as a child, but he never expected to see the only friend he ever had as a child, Mingta. As soon as they see each other, she realizes that he looks familiar to her. She notices a ring he wears around his neck, and immediately comes to the conclusion that he's Tor, her childhood best friend that supposedly died. But he denies it because of his revenge plan.

7. Son Yaz

   2021 · Drama, Action, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Idealist Public Prosecutor Selim Kara receives an offer he cannot refuse from the organized crime leader Selçuk Taşkın, whom he sent to prison 8 years ago. Selçuk Taşkın wants to testify in one of Prosecutor Selim's cases and his testimony will destroy the whole criminal organization. However, there is only one condition for this; the personal protection of his son, Akgün Gökalp Taşkın.

8. Oxygen The Series

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on One31.

   Orphaned at a very young age, Gui, a fourth-year engineering student, has had to work hard and earn for himself for as long as he can remember. Still, through the test of time, he still has a soft demeanor and a smile on his face. Solo, a freshman in the Faculty of Music, can get anything he wants with a flick of his wrist. Money, fame, good looks, the boy has everything, except his smile. When Solo's mother passed away, she took with her his smile. Nothing could fill this missing hole in him... that is — until one day when he sees a smiling boy working at a cafe. One night the two worlds collide in a small coffee shop. For a cup of hot milk and a warm smile, Solo finds himself back in the cafe every night. For a soft boy who reminds him of a husky, Gui finds himself waiting for a late-night visitor with a cup of hot milk, night after night. Night after night, the two boys continue to meet. At the same spot, at the same time, until they soon come to realize that they have become each other's breath. A necessity. Just like Oxygen. 

9. Jack and Joker

   2024 · Action, Crime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Romance profile, highly rated (8.3), hidden gem.

   Joker leads a double life. Boastful and talented in conversation, he is secretly a notorious thief wanted by the police. Using his exceptional disguise skills, Joker robs wealthy oppressors and redistributes their riches to aid struggling villagers. On the other side is Jack, a former Taekwondo black belt turned debt collector. With a calm and quiet demeanor, Jack instills fear in those he encounters. Despite his intimidating presence, he is a reasonable man who believes in solving problems without force and holds the conviction that "the strength one possesses should be used only to protect the weak."

10. TharnType The Series

    2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on One31.

    Type is a dark, tall and handsome freshman. Although he's a warm boy, he is homophobic because he was molested by a man as a child. His life turns up side down when the new year of college brings along a very interesting person in his life, a gay roommate, Tharn. Tharn, is a very handsome music major with fair skin and mixed features. He is also openly gay. With a gay guy and a guy who hates gay men, that have to share a small space together for the rest of the year — what can possibly be the outcome of their story? Hatred? Or maybe love?