Secret Level is an adult animated anthology series created by Tim Miller. The Prime Video series consists of fifteen stories set in the worlds of fifteen different video games, including Armored Core, Concord, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, Pac-Man, Sifu, Spelunky, PlayStation, The Outer Worlds, Unreal Tournament, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. So, if you loved the video game elements, the blend of genres, and compelling characters in Secret Level, here are some similar shows you should check out next.
Love, Death & Robots (Netflix)
Love, Death & Robots is an adult animated anthology series created by Tim Miller. The Netflix series consists of animated short stories in different genres ranging from sci-fi to fantasy and thriller drama to dark comedy. Love, Death & Robots stars Fred Tatasciore, John DiMaggio, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Elodie Yung, and Fred Tatasciore.
Black Mirror (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video)
Black Mirror is a sci-fi drama anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. The Netflix series has a different story in each episode, featuring different technologies and how they affect humans and society. Black Mirror stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Cristin Milioti, Hayley Atwell, Jesse Plemons, Andrew Scott, Toby Kebbell, Alex Lawther, and Jesse Plemons.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix)
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a cyberpunk sci-fi action anime series created by Rafał Jaki and Mike Pondsmith. Based on the video game Cyberpunk 2077, developed by CD Projekt Red, the Netflix series is set in a futuristic city obsessed with technology and body modification. It follows a street kid who becomes an outlaw known as the Edgerunners to survive. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’s English voice cast includes Zach Aguilar, Emi Lo, William C. Stephens, Marie Westbrook, Ian James Corlett, Stephanie Wong, Matthew Mercer, Alex Cazares, Giancarlo Esposito, and Alec Newman.
Cowboy Bebop (Hulu, Crunchyroll & Prime Video Add-On)
Cowboy Bebop is a Japanese neo-noir space Western action thriller comedy-drama anime series created by Hajime Yatate. The Sunrise series is set in the year 2071, and it follows a team of bounty-hunting crew in a spaceship as they chase several criminals through space while facing their own dark and tragic past.
Arcane (Netflix)
Arcane is an adult animated steampunk action-adventure series created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee. Based on the League of Legends video game developed by Riot Games, the Netflix series revolves around the origin stories of two iconic League champions, sisters Jinx and Vi. Arcane’s voice cast includes Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung, Toks Olagundoye, Harry Lloyd, Jason Spisak, JB Blanc, and Reed Shannon.
Terminator Zero (Netflix)
Terminator Zero is a sci-fi action anime series created by Mattson Tomlin. Based on the Terminator film franchise by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, the Netflix series is set in Terminator Universe in 1997, the day before Judgement Day, and it follows Malcolm Lee, who is developing Kokoro. This AI system could rival Skynet. Soon, Malcolm Lee and his three children are hunted down by a robot assassin from the future, and they are helped by a mysterious soldier, who is also sent from the future. Terminator Zero’s voice cast includes André Holland, Sonoya Mizuno, Sumalee Montano, Armani Jackson, Gideon Adlon, Carter Rockwood, Rosario Dawson, and Timothy Olyphant.
The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime Video)
The Legend of Vox Machina is an adult animated fantasy action series created by Critical Role Productions. Based on the first campaign of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role, the Prime Video series is set in a fantasy world, and it follows a team of misfits known as Vox Machina as they go up against dark magical forces to save the realm of Exandria. The Legend of Vox Machina’s voice cast includes Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus (Crunchyroll & Prime Video Add-On)
Blade Runner: Black Lotus is an animated sci-fi action series written by Eugene Son, Brandon Auman, Alex de Campi, and Margaret Dunlap. Based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? by Philip K. Dick, the Adult Swim series is set in Los Angeles in the year 2032, and it follows a young woman with amnesia who decides to hunt down the people connected to her brutal and bloody past to find who she truly is. Blade Runner: Black Lotus’s English voice cast includes Jessica Henwick, Will Yun Lee, Samira Wiley, Wes Bentley, Brian Cox, Josh Duhamel, Peyton List, Stephen Root, Barkhad Abdi, Gregg Henry, Henry Czerny, Jason Spisak, and Alessia Cara.
Onimusha (Netflix)
Onimusha is a Japanese fantasy action thriller anime series written by Hideyuki Kurata. Based on the video game franchise of the same name developed by Capcom, the Netflix series is set in the early Edo period of Japan, and it follows an ageing Musashi who sets out on a dangerous covert mission to kill demons with the help of his mythical “Oni Gauntlet”. Onimusha’s English voice cast includes Alain Mesa, Greg Chun, Kirk Thornton, Yuri Lowenthal, Christopher Swindle, Matthew Yang King, Chris Hackney, Kyle McCarley, Sarah Anne Williams, and Robbie Daymond.
The Last of Us (Max & Rent on Prime Video)
The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller drama series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Based on the popular video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the HBO series is set twenty years after a pandemic caused most of the world’s population to turn into zombie-like creatures, and it follows Joel Miller, a middle-aged smuggler who is tasked with smuggling a young girl across the United States. The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Nico Parker, John Hannah, Merle Dandridge, Christopher Heyerdahl, Anna Torv, and Gabriel Luna.
Fallout (Prime Video)
Fallout is a post-apocalyptic Sci-fi Western action drama series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Based on the role-playing video game franchise of the same name developed by Bethesda Works, the Prime Video series two hundred years after the nuclear apocalypse, which left a few survivors forced to live underground in bunkers. The story follows Lucy MacLean, a young woman who must leave the safety of her underground to face the dangers of the outside world. Fallout stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Xelia Mendes-Jones, and Walton Goggins.