- Primary Subject: Similar movies to Jumanji
- Key Update: Jumanji 4 (working title) has officially begun production with the core cast returning for a final chapter, set to hit theaters on December 11, 2026.
- Status: Confirmed
- Last Verified: February 20, 2026
- Quick Answer: If you love Jumanji, watch Zathura, Free Guy, and Dungeons & Dragons for similar high-stakes, game-inspired action and family-friendly adventure.
Ever since its 1995 release, Jumanji has become quite the staple for "getting sucked into a board game" jungle survival genre. So much so that it spawned three more movies to transform it into a franchise (with the fourth one on the way!)
Here are 9 otherworldly films that explore similar magical mayhem, your best bet for a weekend marathon.
Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Zathura: A Space Adventure follows two bickering brothers who find a mechanical board game in their basement. The only difference Zathura has from Jumanji is that at every turn, their house is physically transported further into space, forcing them to survive meteor showers and alien lizard-men to get back home.
Purchase or Rent: Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Free Guy (2021)
Similar to Welcome to the Jungle, Free Guy explores the logic of video games, NPCs (non-player characters), and the realization that the world around you is merely programmed code (just like the cast in The Truman Show).
Free Guy follows a bank teller named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) who discovers he's a background character in an open-world video game, and decides it's time to become the hero of his own story to save the digital world from being shut down by a greedy CEO.
Streaming Platforms: Disney+, Hulu
Labyrinth (1986)
Labyrinth captures the "portal fantasy" trope where a normal teenager gets thrust into a dangerous, surreal world governed by a powerful antagonist. After wishing her baby brother away, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) must solve a massive, treacherous maze within 13 hours to rescue him from the Goblin King, Jareth (David Bowie).
Streaming Platforms: Hulu, Peacock, Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
Night at the Museum (2006)
Apart from Robin Williams being a part of Night at the Museum, this film brings the "magic coming to life in the real world" chaos of the original Jumanji. Instead of jungle animals in a house, it's historical artifacts in a museum. It's up to the newly hired night watchman to keep every exhibit in the Museum of Natural History in order until after sunset.
Streaming Platforms: Disney+, Netflix
TRON: Legacy (2010)
TRON: Legacy is the ultimate "sucked into the machine" movie. It features the same "trapped for decades" plot point as Alan Parrish, but is set within a digital frontier. In TRON: Legacy, Sam Flynn investigates a signal from his father's old arcade and is digitized into "The Grid", a virtual world where his father has been trapped for 20 years.
Streaming Platform: Disney+
Stay Alive (2006)
If it's a horror-themed Jumanji you're looking for, it's Stay Alive, whose central hook is that the game's consequences are fatal in real life. If you die in the game, you die for real. In Stay Alive, a group of friends plays an underground survival horror game based on the legend of the Blood Countess. They soon realize that their real-life deaths are being mirrored by their in-game failures.
Purchase or Rent: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One mirrors the modern Jumanji sequels' use of avatars, "Easter Eggs", and the hunt for a specific magical object to win the game and save reality. In this dystopian world set in 2045, people escape their lives via the OASIS, a virtual reality universe. A young orphan competes in a high-stakes digital treasure hunt to win control of the entire simulation.
Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids shares the lighthearted, gadget-heavy adventure tone and the theme of children having to navigate a world of "adult" dangers using their wits. We follow two siblings who discover that their "boring" parents are actually world-class secret agents. When their parents are kidnapped, the kids must use high-tech gadgets to become spies and save them.
Streaming Platform: Tubi
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves mirrors the teamwork and specific "class" abilities (similar to the Jumanji avatars) needed to overcome traps and monsters. A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Streaming Platform: Paramount+
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