Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Inheritance Games lands Avery Grambs — a teenager with no money and a scholarship plan — inside a billionaire's secret-passage-filled estate after a stranger leaves her virtually his entire fortune for no apparent reason. The house is built around puzzles, riddles, and codes, and the four grandsons he dispossessed are convinced she's a conwoman. Navigating wealth, danger, and layered family secrets she was never meant to uncover, Avery must play the game to survive it.
The Inheritance Games is a young adult novel series by author Jennifer Lynn Barnes, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The series focuses on a teenaged girl, Avery Kylie Grambs, and the Hawthorne family. It has garnered widespread acclaim for its intricate plot and engaging characters, making it a favorite among young adult readers. It currently consists of three main books: The Inheritance Games (2020), The Hawthorne Legacy (2021), The Final Gambit (2022). Also connected to the series are a standalone book that follows the events of the main series, The Brothers Hawthorne (2023), and a short story and novella collection, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection (2024). A spinoff series, The Grandest Game, currently features two books: The Grandest Game (2024) and Glorious Rivals (2025).
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Film
The Inheritance
A mysterious outsider enters a wealthy family's world and finds herself caught between suitors, schemes, and a guardian's suspicion.
Film
Inheritance
Maya discovers her father was a spy and suddenly finds herself a target, forced to learn his dangerous skills to survive.
Film
The Inheritance
A billionaire's four estranged heirs reunite in his home, where danger waits behind every door on a single threatening night.
Film
Inheritance
A dead uncle leaves a mansion of intricate puzzles as the arena where his estranged family must compete for their share.
Film
The Ultimate Gift
Instead of a straightforward inheritance, a wealthy grandfather sets his heir a gauntlet of tasks he must complete first.
Film
Max Winslow and The House of Secrets
Five teenagers compete inside a tech mogul's mansion against an AI that controls every room and every challenge.
Series
The Lying Game
A foster kid discovers an identical twin raised by wealthy parents and steps into her privileged life, navigating wealth and deception.
Series
Inheritance Detective
An investigator closes estate disputes and exposes questionable heirs, always respecting the wishes of the dead.
Series
The Heirs
Two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's ultra-rich.
Series
The Bequeathed
A woman inherits a burial ground from an unknown uncle and finds herself at the centre of murders and dark secrets.
Series
The Wheel of Time
A powerful stranger arrives claiming one of five young villagers is prophesied to tip the balance between Light and Dark.
Series
The Whispers
An unseen entity manipulates the children closest to us to accomplish an agenda no one can see or hear.
Game
Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered
Young doctor Vivien Ambrose enters the first chapter of a time-travel trilogy built around puzzles and temporal mysteries.
Game
Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Time destroys physical things and warps memories — returning means confronting what has been twisted into something unrecognisable.
Game
Lynne
Fifteen-year-old Lynn faces arguing parents, a pregnant sister, and looming GCSEs she's terrified she'll fail.
Game
Bones' Tales: The Manor
A boy reunites with his mother and sisters at an old manor after two years apart following his parents' divorce.
Game
Mushroom Age
Hidden-object puzzles and time-twisting mini-games drive a quest to recover something — and someone — lost.
Game
Loretta
A psychological thriller pulls the player into a web of betrayal and dark choices where every decision deepens the nightmare.
Book
The Final Gambit
Avery is weeks from securing the Hawthorne billions, but mounting danger and outside pressure make survival the only game left.
Book
The Inheritance
A woman inherits a stranger's estate with strings attached — give up her Chicago career and relocate to rural Iowa.
Book
The inherited twins
A woman fights to hold a sprawling family estate together while raising two newly orphaned children she's determined to protect.
Book
The Taming of the Tyler Kincaid
A mysterious stranger arrives at a family mansion just as the patriarch decides who deserves to inherit, igniting suspicion.
Book
The Vesey Inheritance
A threatening note and a secret step-brother surface together, pulling a woman into a family history she never knew.
Book
A daughter's inheritance
A surprising inheritance forces a young woman to see exactly how much society's rules were always designed to constrain her.
The Final Gambit picks up directly where the series leaves off, putting Avery back in Hawthorne House racing against new dangers to claim her inheritance — perfect if you want more puzzles and high-stakes twists with the same cast.
The Bequeathed (2024) and The Lying Game both blend mystery, secrets, and an outsider pulled into a wealthy family's dangerous world — strong picks if you love the tension of not knowing who to trust.
Inheritance (2024) drops an estranged family into a billionaire's puzzle-filled mansion to compete for his fortune — essentially the film version of the book's core premise.