Shows like Squid Game: 20 to watch next
If you loved Squid Game (2021) — a action & adventure, mystery and drama series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Squid Game most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like secret organization, challenge and survival. 10 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Panic 2021★ 7.3
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
In the forgotten town of Carp, Texas, Panic is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money. After the death of two players the stakes—and danger—have never been higher.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Assassin 2025★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward battles to find the right time to speak to his frustratingly distant mother. But, when the moment finally presents itself, things take a deadly turn as Julie’s dangerous past catches up with her and they are forced to flee the island and go on the run together.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel
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Citadel 2023★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Taxi Driver 2021★ 8.1
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
A former special forces soldier delivers revenge for victims of injustice while working for a secret organization that fronts as a taxi company.
Stream in India on Netflix, Amazon MX Player, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads
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The Unit 2006★ 7.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gangs of London 2020★ 7.8
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Bad Guys 2014★ 7.7
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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La Femme Nikita 1997★ 7.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Big Mouth 2022★ 8.4
Shares: Mystery, Drama
A lawyer with a ten-percent winning rate is caught up in a murder case and becomes the notorious and genius con artist, Big Mouse, overnight. In order to survive and protect his family, he tries to reveal the true colors of the privileged people involved in a huge conspiracy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Legends 2026★ 7.6
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
As drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.
Stream in India on Netflix
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El final del paraíso 2019★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
In this new era, Catalina, now head of the DEA in Colombia, has a new challenge: to track down a criminal organization that is trafficking a new synthetic drug. What she ignores is that her daughter is part of the Cartel that traffics them and that Yésica, her worst enemy, is infiltrated in the DEA.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Day of the Jackal 2024★ 8.2
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Chosen 2013★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
Ian Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and a picture of a stranger, along with instructions to kill the pictured person. He is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and discovers that he has been chosen by a mysterious organization known as The Watchers to participate in a lethal game.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Titans 2018★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Dead-End Job 2026★ 7.5
Shares: Mystery, Drama
Drowning in debt, a young man takes lucrative part-time jobs from a mysterious agency — only to find his hustle for more money turning nightmarish.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Most Dangerous Game 2020★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nikita 2010★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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WWE ECW 2006★ 6.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
ECW was a professional wrestling television program for WWE, based on the independent Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001. The show's name also referred to the ECW brand, in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform, complementary to WWE's other brands, Raw and SmackDown. It debuted on June 13, 2006 on Sci Fi in the United States and ran for close to four years until it aired its final episode on February 16, 2010 on the rebranded Syfy. It was replaced the following week with WWE NXT.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nemesis 2026★ 7.7
Shares: Action & Adventure, Drama
A relentless LAPD cop becomes obsessed with taking down the master thief behind a string of daring heists — and only one can come out on top.
Stream in India on Netflix
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A Bona Fide Killer 2026★ 8.4
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery
A seemingly ordinary working mother secretly lives as a legendary sniper who delivers justice where the law fails. After returning from a three-year hiatus, she must balance protecting her family with eliminating dangerous criminals, all while a determined journalist and a relentless detective close in on her hidden identity.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now