Congratulations. You clicked a listicle that five other sites ran last month and you think you earned an opinion. This is the intellectual equivalent of licking a window and calling yourself a sommelier.
IMDb posted a list of five shows that remind them of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, and somehow the internet is acting like this is news. The list exists. You have already seen every show on it. You probably watched three of them during a pandemic and forgot the endings. The titles are the kind of safe, algorithm-friendly picks that a streaming service suggests when you finish a season and the remote is in the other room. We are not going to list them here because you can read the link yourself, and because naming them would imply they deserve the attention. What matters is what this list does not say: nothing about the tone, nothing about the humor, nothing about the fact that the books work because the system is cruel and the cat is meaner. These shows are not that.
You want a real comparison? Read our Book Six Review: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride Barely Worth Your Time and see what happens when someone actually engages with the material instead of feeding it into a recommendation engine. Or read Audiobook Narrator Explains Why Princess Donut Is More Than a Joke and learn why a character who would eviscerate this entire list for being boring is the reason the series works. The shows on IMDb's list have no Princess Donut. They have no Mongo. They have no system that punishes you for breathing wrong. They are just television, and television is not dungeon crawling.
The practical takeaway is this: if you are a fan of the books, ignore this list. It was written for people who have not read them. If you are a new reader hoping for a shortcut to understanding the vibe, you will watch four episodes of something safe and wonder why nobody is yelling about exploding goblins. The real entry point is the audiobook, and the real news is that Jeff Hays is officially cast to voice Princess Donut in the show, as confirmed in Jeff Hays to Voice Princess Donut in Show After Fan Demand. That is a fact. This list is a placeholder. One of these things will matter in a year. The other is already cached in your browser history.