Shows Like SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table

If you liked SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (2026), a animation and action & adventure series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Kaede Honjou is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named…
2
The Future Diary (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and animation
Reality quickly unravels when antisocial Yukiteru is called into a death match against 11 other mentally scarred individuals. Each player has a prophetic device tuned to their personality, giving them control over…
3
I'm Standing on a Million Lives (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Ninth grader Yotsuya Yuusuke is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives…
4
Scarlet Nexus (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Saved by the Other Suppression Force as a child, psychokinetic Yuito enlists in this elite team formed to fight Earth’s enemy. Meanwhile, prodigy Kasane was scouted for her abilities. Kasane’s dreams tell her strange…
5
Alice in Borderland (2020)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery and action & adventure
With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.
6
Btooom! (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
Sakamoto, an unemployed young man, is one of the world's top players of an online fighting game called Btooom! One day, he wakes up on what appears to be a tropical island, although he doesn't remember how or why he…
7
Tomodachi Game (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and mystery
After his class' school trip fund is stolen, Yuichi and his best friends are abducted to play a debt repayment game; there is more than money on the line, as their bonds are tested with dark secrets and a lingering…
8
Angels of Death (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also action & adventure and animation
Most girls waking up without any memory and meeting a serial killer would panic, but not Rachel. In fact, far from being her biggest problem, killer Zack might just prove a convenient resource when it comes to finding…
9
Killing Bites (2018)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Yuuya Nomoto was horrified to discover that the vehicle he was driving was being used to kidnap a high school girl, but he's even more shocked when the girl, Hitomi Uzaki, literally tears her kidnappers to pieces…
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High-Rise Invasion (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and mystery
High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes…
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Skeleton Knight in Another World (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
One day, a gamer played video games until he fell asleep...and when he woke up, he found himself in the game world—as a skeleton! Equipped with the powerful weapons and armor of his avatar but stuck with its…
12
Danganronpa: The Animation (2013)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and animation
Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a…
13
She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Kagami Sakamori was one of the top players in the VRMMO Ark Earth Online as Danblf, a veteran summoner with the gravitas to match his elite status. When he falls asleep playing one day, he's transported to a world…
14
Solo Leveling (2024)
★ 8.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with…
15
RESIDENT EVIL: Infinite Darkness (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Years after the horrors of Raccoon City, Leon and Claire find themselves consumed by a dark conspiracy when a viral attack ravages the White House.
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Gachiakuta (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Accused of murder and thrown into the Pit, a young orphan joins a group of monster fighters with special powers to uncover the truth and seek vengeance.
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Sword Art Online (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology…
18
Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life! (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
In an unexpected turn of events, dull high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains the full dive role-playing game Kiwame Quest. Created by the best of technology, the game claims to take "reality to its extremes," from…
19
Darwin's Game (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and mystery
Sudou Kaname, an ordinary high school student, receives an invitation email to try a mysterious app called "Darwin's Game." Kaname, upon launching the app, is drawn into a game where players fight one another using…
20
Princess Connect! Re:Dive (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
In the beautiful land of Astraea where a gentle breeze blows, a young man named Yuuki awakens with no memory of his past. There he encounters a guide who has sworn to care for him—Kokkoro, a lovely swordswoman who's…