# TV shows like Stranger Things to watch next

Small towns, missing kids, monsters and eighties nostalgia: the series TVLine and Tom's Guide recommend once you've run out of Hawkins.

- 101 votes · 15 items
- Jul 27, 2026 · nikau_nextepisode
- https://even.best/en/l/4505/tv-shows-like-stranger-things-to-watch-next

## Top 15

1. **Dark (2017)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — German Netflix series: a missing boy in Winden opens a time-travel mystery spanning generations.
2. **The OA (2016)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — A woman who was missing for seven years comes back and gathers a group of misfits. Cancelled after two seasons.
3. **Locke & Key (2020)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Three siblings find magic keys in their family house. From Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez's comic.
4. **Wayward Pines (2015)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — A Secret Service agent stuck in a perfect, sinister small town. Produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
5. **Paper Girls (2022)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Four newspaper girls from 1988 are thrown into the future. Based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's comic.
6. **The Umbrella Academy (2019)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Adopted siblings with powers reunite to stop the apocalypse. Four seasons on Netflix.
7. **Alice in Borderland (2020)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Japanese gamers trapped in an empty Tokyo where deadly games decide who lives.
8. **From (2022)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A town nobody can leave, where creatures come out every night.
9. **Lockwood & Co. (2023)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Teenage ghost hunters in a London haunted for fifty years. Cancelled after one season.
10. **Dead Boy Detectives (2024)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Two ghost teens solving supernatural cases, from Neil Gaiman's comics universe.
11. **Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A dark take on the teenage witch from Archie Comics.
12. **The Midnight Club (2022)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Mike Flanagan: terminally ill teens tell each other scary stories at midnight.
13. **It: Welcome to Derry (2025)** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — HBO prequel to Stephen King's It, set in 1960s Derry.
14. **Riverdale (2017)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Archie and friends in a small town full of murders and secrets.
15. **Goosebumps (2023)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — High schoolers unleash a supernatural force tied to a teen who died decades ago.

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