If you loved watching the Waitrose and Morrisons crews improvise rules and roles as “sickos” closed in—and Small Sam scraping by through ruined London—you’ll click with Rot & Ruin. Teen brothers Benny and Tom have to survive a zombie-haunted frontier town, decide what kind of people they’ll be, and face the grisly realities outside the fences. It’s got the same desperate runs, moral choices, and pulse-pounding encounters you enjoyed when the kids marched toward Buckingham Palace and learned survival doesn’t come cheap.

Liked how Arran and Maxie rallied a whole supermarket’s worth of kids—each with jobs—into a functioning unit? In The Maze Runner, the Gladers, led by Alby and Newt, keep their fragile society running while the Maze shifts and Grievers hunt. As Thomas arrives and upends the status quo, you’ll get the same team dynamics, tense councils, and desperate problem-solving that echoed through the Waitrose kids’ trek and stand-offs with the feral grown-ups.

If Small Sam’s solitary gauntlet and the group’s scramble for food, water, and safe shelter had you turning pages, Gone throws you into the FAYZ, where every adult vanishes and the remaining kids must build a town—or tear it apart. Power struggles like those sparked on the road to Buckingham Palace escalate as Sam Temple and Caine clash, and the survival calculus you saw in London—raids, rationing, and brutal showdowns—takes center stage.

Appreciated bouncing from the supermarket crew to Small Sam and the Kid to see the apocalypse from every angle? The 5th Wave alternates between Cassie on the run, Ben (“Zombie”) inside a militarized camp, and the razor-sharp Ringer. That shifting vantage point builds the same mounting dread you felt when different London groups discovered how the “sickos” changed, revealing traps and truths just as chilling as the Palace’s false promises.

If the brutal London street fights, sudden losses, and the realization that safety is an illusion gripped you, The Girl with All the Gifts delivers that same hard edge. Melanie, Miss Justineau, and Sergeant Parks navigate a Britain overrun by “hungries,” where every decision costs blood and certainty. It’s as tense and unflinching as those moments when the kids’ defenses failed and the road to supposed sanctuary demanded sacrifice.