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Predator: Badlands follows Dek, a young Yautja exiled from his clan, who crash-lands on a hostile planet and must prove himself worthy of the hunt by killing an apex predator. His unlikely alliance with Thia, a Weyland-Yutani android, is the story's core tension: an outcast warrior from a proud hunting culture forced to depend on a damaged machine. The taste it signals is action science fiction built around outsider survival and the blurring line between hunter and hunted.
About Predator: Badlands
Predator: Badlands is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison from a story by Trachtenberg and Aison. Following The Predator (2018) it is the seventh installment in the Predator franchise and stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in leading roles. The story follows Dek, a young exiled Yautja, who crash-lands on a hostile planet and must prove himself worthy of the hunt by killing an apex predator, leading him to form an alliance with Thia, a Weyland-Yutani Corporation android.
From the Wikipedia article Predator:_Badlands, available under CC BY-SA.
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Chrome Shelled Regios
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Hidden narratives resurface around a predator figure, echoing Badlands' themes of identity and concealed purpose.
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BEASTARS
A gentle creature awakens to predatory urges, wrestling with the same hunter-versus-self conflict as Dek.
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A discovered mineral reshapes society while bringing deadly consequences, grounding sci-fi action in systemic survival.
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Law breaks down on a dangerous frontier, leaving survival to capable individuals operating beyond normal society.
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A lone figure takes justice into her own hands in a city where institutions have completely failed.
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Predator: Hunting Grounds
Play as the Predator itself or its quarry in a direct translation of Badlands' hunter-versus-hunted dynamic.
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Predator: Concrete Jungle
Step into the Predator's role across time as it hunts prey in an urban killing ground.
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Aliens Versus Predator 2
Three species — Alien, Predator, and Marine — battle for survival on an alien planet in a story-driven campaign.
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Play as Alien, Predator, or Marine across interlocking missions where every faction is simultaneously hunter and hunted.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator
A small elite unit operates deep in hostile territory under a ticking clock, outnumbered and far from support.
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Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt
Three interlocking stories across a corporate mercenary, a Predator, and a hybrid creature explore competing survival drives.
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Hardened survivors find themselves prey on an alien world, mirroring the hunted-outsider tension of Badlands.
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Frequently asked
What should I watch after Predator: Badlands?
Start with Prey, which shares the same outsider-proves-worth structure and a warrior protagonist facing a technically superior alien hunter. Predators is another strong pick if you want the alien-planet hunting ground taken further.
What games are like Predator: Badlands?
Predator: Hunting Grounds is the most direct fit — you can play as the Predator itself or be hunted by one. Aliens Versus Predator 2 adds a story-driven angle with multiple perspectives on the same lethal conflict.
Why does Predator: Badlands feel different from earlier Predator films?
The story centers the Yautja as the protagonist rather than the threat, following Dek's exile and his unlikely alliance with an android. That shift from monster to outcast hero gives it a different emotional pull than the franchise's human-survival entries.