Prime Video Finally Has a Love, Death + Robots Successor — Secret Level Is One of Its Best Series

Prime Video just leveled up: sci-fi anthology Secret Level turns video game storytelling into must-watch TV—and one of the platform’s best shows.

Netflix set the modern bar for animated sci-fi anthologies with Love, Death + Robots. Prime Video looked at that and said: cool, now watch this. The result, Secret Level, is the kind of surprise that sneaks up on you and then refuses to leave your brain.

The baseline: LD+R blew the doors open

Love, Death + Robots made the anthology format feel dangerous again, flipping between sentient pool cleaners, galaxy-spanning wars, mutant gladiators, and yes, yogurt running the planet. It became the default reference point for bite-sized sci-fi.

Enter Secret Level: Tim Miller swings again

After building LD+R, Tim Miller shifted over to Prime Video to mastermind a video game anthology that plays on the same field, both in scope and polish. Secret Level adapts (and spins up fresh stories inside) some of the biggest games ever, a handful of modern cult favorites, and even one notorious flop. For a bunch of these properties, this was their first time getting any kind of screen treatment, and Secret Level lays down a marker for how future game-to-screen projects should operate.

The first season landed as a 15-episode drop in December 2024. It did not roar out of the gate the way LD+R did. But give it a year and a half, and it has quietly settled in as one of the best sci-fi shows on Prime Video.

Faithful, feral, and everything between

This show does not treat every source with the same kid gloves. Some entries are straight-up excellent translations: the Sisu episode, the Warhammer 40,000 story, and the Dungeons & Dragons/Baldur's Gate chapter all respect the games while finding real cinematic juice. Other times, Secret Level takes the keys and peels out.

Case in point: Pac-Man. Instead of dots-and-cherries nostalgia, the episode reframes the yellow icon as an interdimensional prisoner tearing through a sprawling maze, evading relentless ghosts while a Destiny-like, cryptic presence keeps nudging him the wrong way. The art direction leans grimdark enough to sit comfortably next to anything in the 40k universe. It should not work. It absolutely does.

The show also plays with perspective. Some episodes drop you in alongside the games' familiar heroes. One standout, 'The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep,' zooms in on a seemingly random NPC scraping by under the thumb of the galaxy's megacorps. It expands the original game's worldbuilding by giving you the quiet, grinding view from the bottom. And yes, a few chapters even mash up multiple games inside one story and still come out coherent.

The cast is stacked, and then somehow stacked again

It is not just the usual heavy-hitting voice actors (though the bench there is deep). Secret Level also flexes an A-list roster that would be headline news if it belonged to a single movie, let alone an anthology season.

• Keanu Reeves headlines the Armored Core episode as a battle-scarred pilot, backed by Patrick Schwarzenegger and Temuera Morrison.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up elsewhere, because apparently one Schwarzenegger was not enough.
• Ricky Whittle, Kevin Hart, and Gabriel Luna add more star power across the season.
• Voice-acting royalty is all over the place: Aleks Le, Nelson Lee, Steve Blum, Bridget Oberlin, and Fred Tatasciore, among others.

The bottom line

Secret Level does what a great anthology should: swing big, miss sometimes, and still leave you buzzing because the hits are that bold. It rivals LD+R on ambition and craft, and when it locks in on a game world, it sets a new standard for how these adaptations can actually feel alive.