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2021 · Series · TV-MA · your starting pointIf Squid Game is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Shows like Squid Game, ranked
1. The 8 Show (2024)
Desperate strangers trapped in an escalating game where cooperation fractures under psychological pressure and mounting danger, exploring how desperation corrupts moral judgment.
2. The Floor (2024)
The floor transforms trivia into territorial warfare where knowledge becomes a survival strategy, mirroring how Squid Game weaponizes childhood games into high-stakes elimination rounds that test both intellect and nerve.
3. Quiz with Balls (2024)
The escalating pressure of each elimination round mirrors Squid Game's ruthless progression, where mounting desperation forces contestants to push harder as the competition narrows and the final prize grows more tantalizing.
4. The Running Man (2025)
The hunt transforms ordinary people into both predators and prey, weaponizing desperation and public spectacle into a high-stakes game where survival means confronting how far you'll go for those you love.
5. Quiz (2020)
This true-crime drama captures the same high-stakes pressure and moral reckoning as contestants face judgment—one through deadly games, the other through a rigged quiz show that exposes how far people will go when everything's on the line.
6. Press Your Luck (2019)
The sudden, arbitrary loss of everything you've worked toward creates the same gut-wrenching tension as watching competitors eliminated in ritualistic games, except here the betrayal comes from chance itself rather than human cruelty.
7. Outlast: The Jungle (2026)
The high-stakes elimination format and mounting psychological tension between contestants fighting for survival and a massive cash prize create the same nail-biting desperation that made the competition's brutal rules so compelling.
8. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2020)
The escalating pressure of each question's rising stakes creates the same white-knuckle tension of watching ordinary people make life-or-death decisions under psychological duress.
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