A week after its release, Squid Game became one of Netflix’s most-watched programs in several regional markets. At launch, it attracted more than 111 million viewers. As the series popularized the dystopian thriller genre, we are recommending 20 intriguing titles you might want to explore next.

20. The Purge


19. Snowpiercer


18. Brave New World


17. Sweet Home


16. The Wilds

A group of teens must survive after a crash leaves them stranded. There’s just one twist to this thrilling drama – these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

15. Vongozero: The Outbreak (To The Lake)

Moscow is stricken by an unknown virus that soon has the whole country in its grasp. Trying to save his new love and her autistic son as well as his ex-wife and their son, Sergey and his companions fight to survive outside the quarantine zone. Far away, on an uninhabited island in Karelia, Sergey has a cabin waiting for them so they can start over. But the path to the cabin isn’t an easy one. Both the global outbreak and Sergey’s family dramas put their journey in jeopardy.

14. Incorporated

A man attempts to thwart a giant corporation that seems to have unlimited power.

13. 3%

A world divided into progress and devastation. The link between the two sides – Offshore and Inland – is a rigorous and painstaking system called The Process. Everyone in Inland has a chance to go through The Process to live a better life in Offshore. But only 3% make it through.

12. Raised by Wolves

After Earth is torn apart by religious differences and the human race teeters on the edge of extinction, an atheistic android architect sends two creations – Mother and Father – to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. From executive producer Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves follows Mother and Father as they attempt to raise human children in this mysterious virgin land – a treacherous and difficult task that’s jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans. As the androids make contact with these zealous and dangerous people, they struggle to control the beliefs of their fiercely self-determining children.

11. Extracurricular

It is a story of high school students who become tangled in a series of conflicts and events that challenge human values and morality. Jisoo (Kim Dong-Hee) is a model high school student. To pay for his university tuition fee, he makes a bad choice. This leads to a serious crime that takes place. Minhee (Jung Da-Bin) and Gyuri (Park Joo-Hyun) attend the same high school as Jisoo and they get involved in Jisoo’s crime.

10. Alice in Borderland

Arisu is a man without much money or luck. He is unemployed currently as well. Out of the blue, a blinding light engulfs him one day in whose aftermath the city of Tokyo has lost all its inhabitants save Arisu and two friends. This is a dangerous and potentially fatal game of survival now in which they are forced to take part.

9. Carnival Row

Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne star in “Carnival Row,” a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose rich homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing immigrant population struggles to coexist with humans in the grimiest section of the city — forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective, Rycroft Philostrate, and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss rekindle a dangerous affair despite an increasingly intolerant society. Vignette harbors a secret that endangers Philo’s standing during his most important case yet: a string of gruesome murders threatening the uneasy peace of the Row. As Philo investigates, he reveals a monster no one could imagine.

8. The Man in the High Castle

What would it be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States? In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes.

7. Years and Years

This audacious drama follows an ordinary Manchester family and catapults them through the next 15 years. As the Britain of this imaginary drama is rocked by political, economic, and technological advances, the family experiences everything hoped for in the future, and everything that is feared.

6. Utopia


5. Kingdom


4. The Handmaid’s Tale


3. Westworld


2. Oz


1. Black Mirror

Set in a world only minutes from our own, “Black Mirror” unveils how modern technologies can backfire and be used against their makers, every episode set in a slightly different reality with different characters combating different types of technologies.


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