Love Stranger Things? Here Are 10 Similar Shows To Add To Your Wishlist

If you love Eleven and how she slowly discovered her powers and the teen angst warped in a mystery, you’ll love I Am Not Okay With This. The story revolves around a high schooler Sydney, who is dealing with the grief of her father’s suicide, puberty and the awkwardness of adolescence only to realise she’s developing superpowers that erupt with her emotions. It’s dark, sarcastic, and, quietly intense—echoing the same journey Eleven had on Stranger Things. The setting includes a small town that is small, almost claustrophobic and feels like you’re seconds away from a major blow-up. 

Cast: Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, Sofia Bryant, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Richard Ellis

Number Of Seasons: 1

IMDb Rating: 7.5/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Based on Neil Gaiman’s cult-classic comic series, The Sandman has mysterious and otherworldly elements like Stranger Things. The show follows Dream, the personification of dreams and one of the seven Endless, as he tries to restore order in his realm after a century-long imprisonment. It’s a rich, gothic and expansive fantasy that has cryptic prophecies, cursed immortal beings, and dream realms that collapse into nightmares—very Upside Down-coded.

Cast: Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Patton Oswalt, Jenna Coleman

Number Of Seasons: 2 (Season 2 to release in July 2025)

IMDb Rating: 7.7/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

The best way to describe Paper Girls is to think Stranger Things meets Doctor Who but make it a female-led situation and slightly more existential. It starts on Halloween in 1988 and follows how four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls are accidentally thrown into the future and come face-to-face with their adult selves. The plot sees them uncovering a grand-scale battle between time-traveling factions. Retro charm, a group dynamic of kids navigating chaos and a thick layer of sci-fi lore, it’s a perfect watch after your Stranger Things binge.

Cast: Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, Sofia Rosinsky, Fina Strazza

Number Of Seasons: 1

IMDb Rating: 7.3/10

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video

The Umbrella Academy is dark, stylish, and chaotic in the best way possible. It’s a story of  seven adopted siblings born under mysterious circumstances who have supernatural powers and are trained to be heroes by their emotionally distant ‘father.’ This one’s a total win if you’re into tropes that are all about secret experiments that can lead to a world-ending consequences. There’s time travel, an impending apocalypse, alternate timelines, telekinesis and end-of-world prophecy visions.

Cast: Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, Aidan Gallagher, Robert Sheehan, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Justin H. Min

Number Of Seasons: 4

IMDb Rating: 7.8/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

If you thought Upside Down was confusing, you’ll be drawing family trees on your walls with red strings after watching Dark. This German sci-fi masterpiece follows four families in an eerie small town as they investigate the disappearance of two children and accidentally uncover a mind-bending saga of time loops, alternate dimensions, and an age-old secret society. It’s haunting, dense, emotionally charged and gets better (read: darker) with every episode. If Stranger Things is a rollercoaster, Dark is a black hole—you get sucked in and can’t come out until it’s over. 

Cast: Louis Hofmann, Lisa Vicari, Andreas Pietschmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Maja Schöne

Number Of Seasons: 3

IMDb Rating: 8.7/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

One of the most underrated shows, Irregulars takes a unique spin on Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Set in Victorian London, the series shows a bunch of street-smart supernatural teens helping Dr. Watson in solving a series of strange and increasingly sinister cases. You get more than just crime-solving here with dark magic, rifts in dimensions, psychic powers and monsters casually roaming the alleys of London. It’s eerie and beautifully shot!

Cast: Thaddea Graham, McKell David, Jojo Macari, Harrison Osterfield, Darci Shaw

Number Of Seasons: 1

IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Set in Wyoming, Outer Range follows a rancher who discovers a mysterious void in the middle of his land that doesn’t follow the rules of time or space. What follows is a part family drama, part cosmic horror and part sci-fi thriller that makes you question reality. There’s a lingering tension throughout the series that something bigger, ancient, terrifying and totally unexplainable is at play; as nature is seen as the ultimate supernatural force. You may find the pace of the show to be slow but it’s worth it.

Cast: Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski

Number Of Seasons: 2

IMDb Rating: 7.1/10

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video

This one show burrowed into my brain and never really left. It starts with Prairie, a young woman who returns home after seven years of disappearance with a restored eyesight and new abilities. She calls herself ‘The OA’ and recruits five locals to rescue more missing individuals by opening a portal to another dimension. The story unfolds in layers with near-death experiences, parallel dimensions and a group of misfit teens. The tone is haunting yet weirdly poetic and the payoff — well, you’ll just have to watch and decide. 

Cast: Brit Marling, Jason Isaacs, Emory Cohen, Patrick Gibson

Number Of Seasons: 2

IMDb Rating: 7.8/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

A Korean thriller, All of Us Are Dead is equal parts a coming-of-age drama and chaotic undead survival. A regular high school becomes ground zero for a zombie apocalypse as things spiral when a science experiment goes wrong and unleashes a deadly virus. The virus causes students to become zombies within seconds. What follows is an intense emotional and deeply philosophical ride. And like Stranger Things, a group of teens try to make it out alive when authorities fail to control the situation. 

Cast: Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun, Park Solomon

Number Of Seasons: 1 (Season 2 confirmed)

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

Imagine Stranger Things meets the Hunger Games meets Black Mirror. Yes, that’s what Alice in Borderline is all about. A Japanese thriller, this show starts with a trio of friends who find themselves suddenly transported to Tokyo that is completely abandoned. And how do they get out? Compete in a few deadly games to survive. Each of these games is brutal and designed to test human limits. What’s more? The deeper they go, the weirder it gets.

Cast: Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, Nijiro Murakami, Eleanor Noble, Daniel Rindress-Kay

Number Of Seasons: 2

IMDb Rating: 7.8/10

Where To Watch: Netflix

There are many thriller, sci-fi and supernatural shows out there but we have a few special mentions that can be a good watch after Stranger Things partly because they're sci-fi and partly because they have supernatural elements with mystery and suspense. You can check out these shows once you're done with the aforementioned 10 (or if you've already watched them):

Dead Boy Detectives, The Order, Twin Peaks, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mayfair Witches, Wednesday, Locke and Key, Once Upon A Time, Umbrella Academy, The A-list, The Irregulars, Shadow Hunters, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The X-Files.