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Obsessed With Netflix's 'Squid Game'? Then These 9 Shows & Movies Are Your Next Must-Watch

Here is what you'll want to binge next. 🍿

Staff Writer

Are you searching for movies and shows like Squid Games on Netflix? If so, we have nine survival game-themed shows and movies you'll want to watch next.

Grab your snacks; there are so many similar shows where people need to compete in deadly games that you won't want to miss.

Here are our top picks on what to stream next:

Alice In Borderland

Rating: 7.7/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Why You Need To Watch It: It is a thriller based upon a manga with the same name. Set in Tokyo, it is about a gamer and his two friends who need to battle other players in an arena.

The Hunger Games

Rating: 7.2/10

Where To Watch:

Why You Need To Watch It: It is the first film in the series about a dystopian world where teenagers are randomly selected from each district as tributes and forced to fight in a televised competition.

Battle Royale

Rating: 7.6/10

Where To Watch: Prime Video

Why You Need To Watch It: The Japanese film is about 42 ninth-grade students sent to a deserted island to kill their peers and be the last one alive.

Animal World

Rating: 6.5/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Why You Need To Watch It: Like Squid Game, it is about someone struggling with debt, so they enter a high stakes game. But in this film, the people play rock paper scissors to earn money.

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Rating: 7.4/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Why You Need To Watch It: It is a movie set in the future, where most of the population lives in poverty, and once a year, people can take part in a series of tests to be selected to live in paradise.

Escape Room

Rating: 6.4/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Why You Need To Watch It: In this horror flick, Tsix strangers enter an escape room and discover they might not escape with their lives.

Circle

Rating: 6/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Why You Need To Watch It: The psychological horror is about 50 strangers awaiting execution, and they can select only one of them to live.

The Belko Experiment

Rating: 6.1/10

Where To Watch: Prime Video

Why You Need To Watch It: It is about a group of employees trapped in their office building, and a mysterious voice over the intercom turns their day into a nightmare.

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Rating: 7/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Why You Need To Watch It: Set in the future, it is about a group of incarcerated people where only those on the upper levels get food while those below starve.

  • Stephanie White was an Ottawa-based Associate Editor for Narcity Canada. She has been writing mouthwatering food and wanderlust-inspiring articles for Canadians since 2012. She has a B.A. and B.Ed. from Ottawa University. When she isn't writing, you can find her travelling the globe and trying new restaurants. Stephanie has previously been published on Insider, Flight Network, Apartment Therapy, Faces Magazine, Daily Hive, Dished and The Spruce.

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