Game of death or Survival Game Battle Royale genre is a survival competition. Being the last person not to be eliminated is the main goal of the game, with many participants getting eliminated bit by bit with their lives at stake. The popularity of Squid Game that aired on Netflix has again popularized the Survival Game theme as an interesting spectacle.

For those of you who like the Survival Game theme, here are 6 films worth watching. Let's look at the following list!

1. Squid Game (2021)

Squid Game has a premise that is quite popular among Koreans. What if their favorite childhood game was played at the risk of their death and financial security as a reward? From there, this series builds on an engaging and enigmatic plot filled with diversely personified characters.

All the contestants of the deadly game have one thing in common: they are either in debt. Thanks to these circumstances, this series also doubles as a socio-political satire that should be familiar to anyone who has watched the film Parasite.

2. Hunger Games (2012)

Based on the award-winning book by author Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is a story about a political dystopia in which a country is divided into districts each representing a social caste. In order to distract everyone from such an unfair system, the country's highest authority holds an annual survival game called the Hunger Games. There, the teens compete against each other in a brutal last-man-standing contest.

The story is centered on Katniss Everdeen, a hopeful and rebellious girl from the poorest district. Together with Peeta Mellark, they must win the Hunger Games while also raising their district flag and indoctrinating themselves into a secret revolutionary faction.

3. Battle Royale (2000)

One of Suzanne Collins' inspirations for Hunger Games is Battle Royale, which tells the story of a Japanese survival game. This is a film where a group of 9th grade delinquent students who skipped class together are suddenly sent to a deserted island by their own teacher. The 42 students must kill each other where the only winner is the one who last survives and can go home.

The weapons given to kill each other are very random, ranging from Crossbows, Pistols, SMGs to pot lids. Battle Royale became the inspiration for many video games with the genre taken from the name of this film. Free Fire and PUBG Mobile are games inspired by this movie as well.

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4. As The Gods Will (2014)

Squid Game isn't exactly the first to turn childhood games into a game of life and death. As The Gods Will, was released several years before. The difference is that the protagonist is a high school student who in a few years will become a NEET aka unemployed.

Most of the participants of this game are in high school and this survival game is conceptualized or presented in a magical way. Much of As the Gods Will's premise has to do with the existence of a powerful figure toying with human fate.

5. The Purge (2013)

An American film that has become a franchise since its rave reviews in 2013, The Purge is a survival game film unlike any other. Usually other survival game films have real or symbolic prizes in the game, The Purge is all about emotional venting by killing each other. This is an annual one-night event where all the laws in the country are abolished to distract the population from their discontent and poverty.

This night quickly becomes a killing party where only the luckiest and richest usually survive. The real prize was the lives of the people they could kill along the way. People are free to kill anyone within that one night.

6. Alice In Borderland (2021)

Alice in Borderland is a survival game series that airs on Netflix like Squid Game but focuses more on games. The story is about the strange circumstances of three best friends when they suddenly find themselves thrown into an alternate reality of Tokyo. There is nothing to do but participate in the game.

What do they get in return if they win? More time on their visas which allows them to live in Borderland without having to be shot with deadly lasers from above. The thing is, the game itself is deadly, dangerous, and exhausting.

That’s the list of 6 survival game-themed films worth watching. Are there other survival game films worth watching? You can share them in the comment section.

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