This is based on Majong and betting ones very own life. Akagi seeks the thrill of the game and is a genius.

They play Games and gamble to their life to win. This one they gamble their freedom rather than life or death.

The Liars game franchise is all about finding the trick and the lie to win the game. The main in Usogui is know as the "Lie Eater"

The Kaiji franchise is all about betting and risking your life. Finding the lie in betting and winning

Similar in setting and themes, and accident causes people to go to the bleak future Where they learn to be human beings again.

Another game powered by having to solve puzzles, the difference being it a virtual death and not a real death. Mysterious Higher power controlling the games.

Akagi is just one man whose stakes are always death, his game is Mahjong, and no one can beat him though several try.

It is another survival game controlled by a higher power. Combined debt/greed and games with the consequence of death.

It is another survival game but this on adds greed like liar game. Gore violence and mystery abound in this title.

It is another survival game but this one has no set up and is more like "Hunger Games" than an unknown higher power running the show.

It is another survival game and transported to a different world/existance. Both contains gore and blood but this one has a more futuristic setting

It is the same Genre with having to solve puzzles to avoid death and is controlled by some higher power or group