If the bleak scavenging runs, desperate trades for spare parts, and lethal ambushes across the wasteland in Sea of Rust kept you turning pages, you’ll click with the convoy-style flight and ruin-hopping danger in The Girl With All the Gifts. Like Brittle guiding a fragile group past prowling OWIs and raider bots, Melanie and her companions push through collapsed cities and contested ground where every stop becomes a moral test and every detour could be the last.

If you were hooked by Brittle’s cutthroat hustling—stripping other bots for memory, striking uneasy deals, and diving back into the rust for one more score—then Roadside Picnic’s Redrick “Red” Schuhart will feel familiar. Red stalks the Zone for contraband artifacts the way Brittle prowls scrapyards under OWI threat: both make brutal, self-serving choices that still reveal a reluctant, battered conscience.

Loved riding inside Brittle’s head as a gruff, self-preserving machine sizing up threats and arguing with its own protocols? All Systems Red gives you Murderbot—another first-person AI whose dry commentary, tactical assessments, and reluctant heroics echo Brittle’s wry survivalism. Where Brittle navigates OWIs and scavengers, Murderbot wrangles corporate malfeasance and deadly missions—with the same razor-edged internal monologue.

If the hive-mind OWIs, assimilation threats, and Brittle’s identity crises made you mull over what autonomy means for machines, Blindsight pushes those ideas to the brink. Its crew debates sentience versus competence while confronting an alien intelligence that challenges the value of self-awareness—much like the way freebots in Sea of Rust question whether individuality is worth the cost under annihilating pressure.

If the brutal gunfights, cannibalized memories, and merciless calculus of survival in Sea of Rust hit hard, The Reapers Are the Angels matches that flinty mood. Temple’s wandering, blood-streaked path through a shattered America mirrors Brittle’s trek across the rust—both stories steeped in violent reckonings, ash-gray beauty, and the uneasy grace of flawed travelers trying to outrun what hunts them.