Cross-media picks for Ridley Scott fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
If you enjoy what Ridley Scott films deliver — crash-landed crews, colonial power struggles, alien threats pressing in from the dark — this collection covers the same territory across formats. Pitch Black drops survivors on a lightless world; The Ark cripples a colony ship mid-voyage; This Shattered World puts two soldiers on opposite sides of a terraformed planet's rebellion. Films, series, games, and books, all built around pressure, hostile environments, and the question of who you can trust.
Film
Runner
A brutal chase thriller where betrayal closes in fast — survival through sheer resourcefulness, not firepower.
Film
Extinction
Apocalyptic nightmares made real when Earth is invaded, turning an ordinary man into an unlikely hero.
Film
The Adventures of Nexus VI
A stranded spaceship crew battles a mysterious cult on an alien planet — operatic survival in hostile space.
Film
The Dresden Sun
A principled mercenary steals from a ruthless megacorp — shadowy tech, corporate power, and high stakes.
Film
Space/Time
A disgraced team rebuilds a forbidden engine that could save or annihilate humanity — science with consequences.
Film
Pitch Black
Crash-landed strangers must trust a convicted killer when darkness itself becomes the deadliest predator.
Film
The Veil
A betrayed warrior in a war-torn land is reborn through ancient power — brutal loyalty and mythic scope.
Film
Guardian
An ex-Marine investigates a street drug with a supernatural origin — gritty urban action with a dark twist.
Series
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
An empire's invasion reshapes a kingdom — epic geopolitical conflict told at the scale of nations and soldiers.
Series
Crest of the Stars
A planet absorbed into a galactic empire without a shot — grand-scale politics, identity, and quiet dread.
Series
The Frame
A journey through classic and contemporary cinema — a documentary portrait of film's evolving landscape.
Series
The Ark
A colony ship crippled in deep space forces survivors to improvise — bleak, pressure-cooker survival sci-fi.
Series
Next War Chronicle Ehrgeiz
Space colonies revolt and war erupts — mechanized conflict on a civilizational scale with real stakes.
Series
Texhnolyze
Rival factions fight over a decaying city that feels almost alive — dark, atmospheric, and morally complex.
Series
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
James Cameron explores sci-fi's biggest questions episode by episode — an expansive documentary for genre fans.
Series
Argento Soma
Alien entities besiege Earth and one man is swept into the conflict — urgent, bleak, and viscerally cinematic.
Game
Close To The Sun
A labyrinthine Tesla-era ship hides dark secrets — sumptuous dread inside a monument to dangerous genius.
Game
The Thing
A shape-shifting alien picks off an Antarctic team one by one — paranoid, claustrophobic, and relentless.
Game
Collapse: The Rage
Alien anomalies and hostile factions collide in a militarized wasteland — brutal, kinetic, and unforgiving.
Game
Alien Soldier
A lone fighter takes on a terrorist alien threat — relentless action built on vengeance and overwhelming odds.
Game
Blacksite
Alien invasion of a small American town exposes government cover-ups — familiar settings turned terrifyingly strange.
Game
Seen
In a dark, unforgiving world a figure struggles toward a single fragile light — raw and relentlessly atmospheric.
Game
Fortified
Martian invaders meet Cold War-era Earth tech — retro sci-fi action with a satisfying strategic depth.
Game
Amid Evil
Seven brutal episodes of old-school FPS carnage — relentless momentum through wildly varied hostile worlds.
Book
This shattered world
Two enemies stranded together in a senseless war discover unexpected common cause — conflict on a cosmic scale.
Book
Job, a comedy of justice
A man slides between alternate realities, powerless against forces he can't control — disorienting and propulsive.
Book
The X Factor
An outcast steals a ship and lands on an alien world — a classic story of misfits finding unexpected belonging.
Book
Maske
A stratified society on a water-covered planet — rich world-building and a man in conflict with its rigid rules.
Book
The Wall
After climate collapse, young guards man a vast wall — dystopian dread about inherited catastrophe and borders.
Book
Forerunner
A woman and a star traveler race to uncover the origin of civilization — urgent, mythic-scale stakes.
Book
No Time Like Tomorrow
Time travel, monsters, and humanity's fragility — a collection of ideas at once pulpy and genuinely unsettling.
Book
Ace in the Hole
Political intrigue and supernatural powers collide at a high-stakes convention — genre-bending and conspiratorial.
Start with Pitch Black for crash-landed survival horror, Extinction for alien-invasion drama, or The Ark for a colony-ship crisis — all share that sense of humanity under extreme pressure in hostile environments.
Yes — This Shattered World puts two enemies on opposite sides of a colonial war, while Maske delivers rich world-building on a water-covered planet; both have the epic scope and moral weight that characterise the genre.
Try The Thing for Antarctic alien paranoia straight out of a sci-fi thriller, or Close to the Sun for oppressive atmosphere inside a vast, dangerous structure built by an obsessive genius.