Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Stranger Things opens with a boy's disappearance and pulls a small town apart to reveal secret government experiments, a terrifying parallel dimension, and a girl with inexplicable powers caught between both worlds. The mix of coming-of-age warmth and genuine dread — kids on bikes confronting forces utterly beyond adult reach — signals a taste for mysteries where the supernatural is rooted in community, where belonging matters as much as survival, and where horror earns its weight through character rather than spectacle.
Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively, and the fourth season was released in two volumes in May and July 2022. The fifth and final season was released in three volumes, including the finale, in November and December 2025. The show combines elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, coming-of-age, and drama.
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Film
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
A behind-the-scenes look at the craft and years of effort poured into the Duffer Brothers' final chapter.
Film
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview
Returns to Hawkins in 1985 with the same beloved heroes navigating fresh mysteries amid fading Upside Down horrors.
Film
Hidden
A family sealed in a fallout shelter shares the same claustrophobic dread of an unseen, dangerous threat outside.
Film
Goosebumps
A newcomer to a small town accidentally unleashes real monsters, mixing youthful adventure with genuine horror stakes.
Film
Slender Man
A missing girl in a small town and a half-believed supernatural lore pull a group of teenagers toward real danger.
Film
At First Light
A teenager gains dangerous supernatural abilities after a mysterious encounter, then becomes hunted by authorities.
Game
Stranger Things: The Game
Hopper and the kids embark on an action-adventure set in 1984, styled after the games the characters themselves love.
Game
Stranger Things 3: The Game
A retro 16-bit companion game to Season 3, blending the show's aesthetic with puzzle and adventure mechanics.
Game
Life is Strange
A teenager with an unexplained power to rewind time unravels a dark mystery — teen-led, plot-heavy, and atmospheric.
Game
Obscure
Students investigate unexplained disappearances at their school in a survival-horror game built on group dynamics.
Game
Secret Neighbor
Kids break into a neighbour's basement to rescue a missing friend, with a hidden traitor complicating every move.
Game
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Monsters surround the house, a brother is trapped in his treehouse, and you have to find a way out alone.
Book
Stranger Things
Will Byers trapped in the Upside Down — the graphic novel version of the show's own mythology.
Book
Randoms
A twelve-year-old stumbles into a cosmic conspiracy bigger than himself, with his sci-fi fandom as his only guide.
Book
Piper
After a children's clinic burns down, a quiet town finds itself gripped by horror that targets the young.
Book
Trick or Trap
Scott is terrified of everything — and his younger sister knows exactly how to use that against him.
Book
Let's Get Invisible!
On his birthday, Max finds a magic mirror in the attic that can make him invisible.
Book
Mystery at the Masked Ball (Clue, #4)
Mr. Boddy invites six guests to a masked ball and ends up robbed — can you identify the culprit?
Series
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
Animated return to Hawkins, 1985 — beloved heroes face fresh mysteries and an all-new breed of strange.
Series
Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
Two young boys in the seemingly ordinary town of Eerie, Indiana experience strange and unexplained phenomena.
Series
The Journey of Allen Strange
An alien lost far from home takes the form of a teenage boy and navigates life on Earth with empathy and humour.
Series
Creeped Out
An anthology of dark magic and otherworldly encounters aimed at younger audiences who relish eerie, unexplained mysteries.
Series
Beyond Stranger Things
Cast and guests unpack the secrets of Season 2 directly — a companion piece for viewers who want more depth.
Series
No. 6
A privileged boy's life unravels after sheltering a mysterious stranger, exposing cracks beneath a seemingly perfect world.
The animated series Stranger Things: Tales from '85 continues the story of Eleven and the gang in Hawkins, and Creeped Out delivers a fresh anthology of supernatural and sci-fi encounters perfect for fans of the show's eerie tone.
Life is Strange is the closest match — a teen mystery adventure where a girl with time-rewinding powers uncovers dark secrets, blending supernatural thrills and coming-of-age drama in much the same way.
Yes — the official Stranger Things graphic novel follows Will Byers' harrowing experience inside the Upside Down, and the horror novel Piper offers a similarly unsettling small-town story where children begin to disappear under mysterious circumstances.