While waiting for 'Squid Game' S3 to hit Netflix, here are some movies and shows similar to the Squid Game series that could take care of your binge-watch fix. (Compiled by Aleena Mariam Abey)
To reduce juvenile delinquency, the Japanese send a group of high-schoolers to a remote island, where they are to kill each other until a victor emerges. This film inspired many films and games of the same genre, including Squid Game.
By 2017, the U.S became a totalitarian police state. A falsely convicted ex-cop is forced to participate in the government show, The Running Man, which allows criminals to gain freedom if they survive the killers in the show.
This Japanese drama is the story of a naive college student and a mastermind ex-con who team up to compete in the Liar Game, where the competitors are made to play mind games against each other to win a cash prize, while the losers are stuck in a huge debt.
This psychological horror film tells the story of six people who enter an escape room competition to realise they must survive these rooms to make it out of the competition alive.
In this Japanese drama, gamer Arisu gets transported to a parallel world, where Tokyo is empty and he is made to compete with other such players and win challenges to survive. It is set to release the third season this year.
In this popular franchise, a dystopian nation takes two teens from each district each year to fight to the death in the Hunger Games. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, the franchise is based on the popular novel of the same name.
The Tournament is a deadly competition where the world’s top assassins fight against each other to earn the title of the costliest assassin and the cash prize. The former winner, Joshua, returns after learning that his wife’s murderer is in the game.
A group of strangers who are stuck in a maze must work together to find the exit route while surviving the rooms, which may have deadly traps hidden in them