Shows Like ‘Fallout’

Since premiering its entire first season on Prime Video in April 2024, Fallout has been a breakout original hit for the platform — and was quickly renewed for Season 2.

Based on the role-playing video game franchise of the same name, Fallout is a post-apocalyptic drama series that takes place in an alternate version of Earth’s history existing in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear fight dubbed the Great War of 2077. While many survivors took refuge underground in fallout bunkers living as Vault Dwellers and unknowingly undergoing experimentation, others were living at-risk but free aboveground amongst the rubble and radiation.

Now over 200 years after the original assault, a young Vault Dweller named Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) will leave her lifelong home in Vault 33 behind to search the lawless wasteland of Los Angeles for her kidnapped father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). In the process, she comes across mutants, bandits, and more that will threaten both her life and worldview.

Though the show has been confirmed for a second season, it’s gonna be a little while before we get any new episodes. So, in the meantime, if you’re looking for something similar to tide you over, here are 7 shows like Fallout to start streaming now.

1. Like Fallout, The Last of Us is a recent post-apocalyptic drama based on a popular video game franchise. This HBO Original series takes place in a world where a global pandemic turns human hosts into dangerous zombie-like creatures, leading to the devastation of civilization as we know it. Humanity’s last hope for survival just might be 14-year-old girl, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), whose immunity to the deadly infection could hold the key to creating a successful vaccine. With the world’s future at stake, hardened survivor Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) must successfully smuggle Ellie across a ravaged United States, evading both infected monsters and vicious killers along the way.

2. Halo is a Paramount+ original military sci-fi series in which genetically engineered supersoldier Master Chief John-117 (Pablo Schreiber) leads his crew of Silver Team Spartans to fight against an alien threat called the Covenant in an intergalactic war that puts humanity’s future at risk. Similar to Fallout, Halo is based on a popular video game franchise and takes place in a struggling futuristic society, which should make for a pretty easy transition from one show to the next.

3. Fans of Fallout‘s post-apocalyptic setting will likely find themselves riveted by Sweet Tooth, a Netflix original series in which society has collapsed due to a viral pandemic dubbed the Sick that wiped out half the world’s population. Around the same time as “The Great Crumble,” mute animal-human hybrid babies started being born, causing humans to blame the hybrids for the virus, fearing and hunting them as a result. A decade after the outbreak, sheltered 10-year-old half-human, half-deer Gus (Christian Convery) must evade hostile humans as he travels to Colorado alongside reformed hybrid hunter Tommy Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) to find Gus’s mother after the death of his his father (Will Forte).

4. Much like Fallout, The Walking Dead takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which the main characters must risk their lives to survive in a version of America where threats both human and otherwise lurk at every turn. This horror-drama series differs, however, in that instead of nuclear warfare, Earth is ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, leaving the survivors to either band together or turn against one another as they attempt to live through zombie attacks and the collapse of modern civilization.

5. Based on the novel trilogy of the same name, Silo is an Apple TV+ original sci-fi drama series that, like Fallout, is set in a dystopian future society where aboveground toxins have forced many people to live underground. Silo tracks the lives of those living in a silo hundreds of stories underground, where they adhere to numerous rules and regulations they believe are in place to protect them. But after a sheriff (David Oyelowo) breaks one of the community’s cardinal rules, an engineer named Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) begins unearthing shocking secrets about the silo and outside world.

6. Both The Witcher and Fallout feature characters like Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) in the former and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) in the latter whose mutations help to enhance their strength and increase their chances of survival in their respective dangerous worlds. The Witcher is a Netflix original fantasy drama series that centers on mutated monster-hunter for hire Geralt as he, sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra), and Crown Princess Cirilla of Cintra (Freya Allan) join forces to achieve their destinies and survive a treacherous magical world in which man just might prove to be the most wicked creature of all.

7. WHERE TO WATCH STATION ELEVEN

   Based on Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel of the same name, Station Eleven is a critically acclaimed HBO original series that, like Fallout, takes place in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future where survivors attempt to make new lives for themselves following the collapse of civilization. In the wake of a devastating flu pandemic, those who remain attempt to rebuild their lives and create something new out of everything they’ve lost.