All of Us Are Dead and 4 Other Series Like Squid Game to Watch While Waiting for Season 3

Netflix has announced the third and final season of the Korean hit Squid Game. The gripping show about a deadly competition with a huge cash prize will end on June 27.

Here are five worthy series to watch while you wait for the Squid Game finale.

1. 3%, 2016-2020

In the world of the future, society is divided into two groups: the rich, who live in the Offshore, and the poor, who live in the Inland.

A mechanism called The Process helps sort humanity – it determines each person's status for life. But once people are selected, they can fight to get into the paradise regions. To do this, you must fight in a game from which only 3% of the participants come out alive.

Quests, puzzles, interrogations and torture – each of the characters is subjected to inhuman tests. As in Squid Game, the series uses scenes of violence to show the terrible consequences of social inequality.

2. Liar Game, 2007-2010

Nurse Nao receives a black box. Inside she finds 100 million yen and an invitation to participate in the Liar Game. She can't refuse: the only way out of the contest is to keep the money and return it in 30 days.

Otherwise, Nao will have to pay the debt out of his own meager savings. In an attempt to make a profit, the other players deceive their opponents and leave them without the coveted millions.

Liar Game is an adaptation of a famous manga. To win, the characters must deceive, trick, and constantly pretend.

3. All of Us Are Dead, 2022

A high school in the Korean city of Hyosan became the epicenter of a local zombie epidemic. In a matter of hours, the infection destroyed all living things.

Some surviving teenagers hid in classrooms, waiting for the hungry undead to disappear. To get to the shelter, the students must band together and fight back against the monsters.

All of Us Are Dead mixes brutal bloody horror with naive Korean melodrama. Half of the episodes feature the main characters fighting off zombies. The other half is about relationships, friendship, and school bullying.

4. Chosen, 2013-2014

One day, successful lawyer Ian finds a box on his doorstep containing a photograph of a man and instructions to kill him within three days.

The man finds himself drawn into a game in which he is not only the hunter, but also the prey of other participants in a dangerous tournament. The stakes are raised when Ian learns that the organizers of the game are holding his daughter hostage.

The main advantage of the series is its timing. Over six 20-minute episodes in each season, the creators skillfully distributed the dynamics and revealed the main character.

5. Panic, 2021

Every year, 23 high school seniors from a small Texas town participate in a game called Panic. The winner gets $50,000 and leaves the town. But the stakes are high – the game is deadly.

Panic is much more down-to-earth than Squid Game. There are no conspiracy theories or fancy games. The missions are easy to imagine in real life: the organizers force teenagers to jump off a high cliff into a lake, rob other people's houses, and walk blindfolded across a railroad bridge.