Shows Like Sword Art Online

If you liked Sword Art Online (2012), a animation and sci-fi & fantasy 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…
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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…
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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…
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Log Horizon (2013)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets left behind. The trapped players are still alive…
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Overlord (2015)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image…
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Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
29-year-old programmer Suzuki Ichirou finds himself transported into a fantasy RPG. Within the game, he's a 15-year-old named Satou. At first he thinks he's dreaming, but his experiences seem very real. Due to a…
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Tales of Zestiria the X (2016)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Legends speak of the Shepherd, a savior who will bring peace to the seraphim and human worlds. Sorey has spent his life studying ancient books and exploring ruins to learn more about this legendary savior. When he and…
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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…
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Dramatical Murder (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Aoba lives on Midorijima, a small island to the southwest of the main islands of Japan. He lives with his grandmother Tae while working part time at a junk shop. The popular pastimes on the island are the ongoing turf…
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Seven Senses of the Re'Union (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
In the popular MMORPG world 'Union' there existed a legendary party named Subaru. This party, made up of a group of childhood friends and elementary schoolers, exceeded the limits of the game with their various senses…
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A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
Taichi Tanaka is just an ordinary 38-year-old who enjoys video games. He starts a new virtual reality multiplayer game called One More Free Life Online, naming his character Earth. Unlike his fellow players, he decides…
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Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall (2022)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
The year is 2062. Earth has been left in ruin after the failure of a labor automation project when the AI called Artemis waged war against humanity. A girl, Empress, awakens in a research lab. As one of the three…
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.hack (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also action & adventure and animation
.hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.
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SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
Yuki plays death games for a living, but when she wakes in a mansion with five other women, can she survive a new lethal maze of locked rooms and traps?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
In Eternal Nations, a fantasy strategy game where players manage an empire, Takuto Ira is a legendary player who sits atop the leaderboard. Takuto goes unconscious during a hospitalization and awakens on the continent…