Shows Like The Last of Us
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.
Ranked by shared creators, cast, themes, genre, and network — not just generic recommendations.
The Walking Dead
Closest DNA: post-apocalyptic zombie survival, intimate ensemble, brutal emotional stakes, long-running prestige serialized drama.
Fallout
Post-nuclear-apocalyptic survival, based on a beloved video game IP — shares TLOU's prestige adaptation pedigree and wasteland tone.
Station Eleven
Prestige post-pandemic miniseries; emotionally driven, literary tone, serialized survivors navigating a world remade by disease.
Sweet Tooth
Post-apocalyptic world, gruff adult protector bonding with an unusual child on a journey — structural and emotional mirror of TLOU.
The Leftovers
HBO prestige; post-catastrophe grief and survival, deeply emotional serialized drama about people remaking meaning after mass loss.
The Handmaid's Tale
Prestige dystopian survival drama; oppressive quarantine zones, brutal world, intimate character focus, awards-calibre serialization.
Yellowjackets
Survival drama with brutal emotional stakes, prestige cable serialization, dark tone; overlapping audience with TLOU.
The Stand
Pandemic wipes civilization, small band of survivors on a cross-country journey; serialized, dark tone, Stephen King gravitas.
The Stand
Prestige miniseries remake of pandemic-collapse story; survival, moral reckoning, and good-vs-evil in a world ended by virus.
Fear the Walking Dead
Shares the Walking Dead zombie-apocalypse universe; survival focus but lighter tone and lower prestige than TLOU.
12 Monkeys
Plague-triggered civilizational collapse driving the plot; serialized sci-fi drama with urgency and emotional arcs.
The Strain
Infection-based outbreak horror-drama; survival against a spreading pathogen, with Guillermo del Toro's dark genre sensibility.
War of the Worlds
Post-apocalyptic survival drama, small group perspective, European prestige production; alien threat instead of infection.
Y: The Last Man
Prestige post-apocalyptic drama from a comic adaptation; civilization-ending event, survival politics, serialized structure.
Black Summer
Grim, visceral early-apocalypse zombie survival; stripped-down brutal tone shares TLOU's unsentimentality about survival.
The 100
Post-nuclear-apocalyptic world, survival in hostile territory, serialized with escalating moral stakes across factions.
Falling Skies
Post-apocalyptic survival drama; civilian survivors banding together, parent-child relationships under existential threat.
The Walking Dead: Dead City
TWD spinoff with two-character buddy dynamic in a reclaimed urban wasteland — structurally echoes TLOU's intimate pairing format.
The Last Ship
Global pandemic wipes most of humanity; survival mission to find a cure shares TLOU's virus-apocalypse premise, but action-thriller in register.
Thai Cave Rescue
Survival drama with genuine emotional stakes and ensemble under extreme duress; tonal cousin via human-cost focus, not genre overlap.
How Good Is The Last of Us?
Ratings across IMDb and TMDB, plus our verdict.
Where to Watch The Last of Us
Streaming, rental, and purchase options across 40+ countries.
United States
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HBO Max
HBO Max Amazon Channel
Spectrum On DemandBuy
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Amazon DVD / Blu-ray
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Amazon Video
Apple TV Store
Google Play Movies
Fandango At HomeAvailable in 81 countries