These 25 (!) Sci-Fi series start in 2025

A look at the best series of 2024 makes it clear that last year only had a few highlights for science fiction fans. That will change suddenly in 2025, genre fans can expect a huge range of sci-fi novelties on Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and Co.

In addition to interesting new releases about aliens, apocalypses and killer robots, popular franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien and even Blade Runner are also returning with exciting sequels (and prequels). Here are the biggest Netflix series of 2025 the most important sci-fi series stars of the new year before.

1. The Alien series brings sci-fi horror to Earth

Does the Alien franchise really need another prequel? One name is enough to dispel all doubts: creator of the new sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth is Noah Hawley, who previously created two of the best series of the last 20 years with Fargo and Legion. His vision for an alien prequel takes place in the year 2120 (two years before the xenomorph horror on the Nostromo) and takes place on Earth, where a mysterious crashed spaceship harbors what is probably the greatest threat to humanity.

2. Cyberpunk masterpiece Blade Runner continues

Ridley Scott’s cyberpunk masterpiece Blade Runner was followed up by Denis Villeneuve in 2017 with Blade Runner 2049. The replicant saga will soon be available on Amazon Blade Runner 2099 another sequel in series form. The Amazon production stars action icon Michelle Yeoh as an aging replicant, while Euphoria star Hunter Schafer also stars.

3. Cassandra becomes a caring killer robot for Netflix

The Netflix miniseries shows us what a German Black Mirror episode could look like Cassandrain which a small family’s new home – the oldest smart home in Germany – soon becomes a nightmare. This is controlled by an artificial intelligence that, after 50 years of loneliness, never wants to let its new roommates go.

4. Copehagen hacks the brain of Marvel star Simu Liu

James Wan is producing the techno-thriller Copenhagenin which Marvel’s Shang-Chi aka Simu Liu experiences a real-life sci-fi nightmare. Intelligence analyst Alexander Hale’s brain is hacked. Someone is monitoring everything they see and hear. And so Alexander has to keep up appearances around the clock while tracking down the masterminds. The Peacock project was able to secure Melissa Barrera (Scream and Scream VI) for the second leading role.

5. Netflix wants to make you forget the apocalypse in the luxury bunker

After Money Heist and its Berlin prequel, the authors Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato move on to El refuge atómico from the heist to the sci-fi genre and takes you into the enormous halls of a luxury bunker into which the Spanish elite took refuge during the Third World War. We can expect a socially critical end-time drama in which billionaire families enjoy the amenities of restaurants, gardens and spas, while the escalating horror of the surface can be seen on large screens.

6. Comic film about aliens and a frosty apocalypse

With Eternauta A science fiction series from Argentina awaits us on Netflix. This film adapts the comic El Eternauta, first published in 1957, in which a deadly snowfall wipes out all life that touches it. A group of survivors must now fight for the future of humanity in this alien-created post-apocalypse. Since 1968, numerous attempts to film the material have failed – until now.

7. Cowboy Bebop meets John Wick in wild sci-fi anime

Sci-fi fans can look forward to a new anime work from Cowboy Bebop mastermind Shinichiro Watanabe in 2025. The story of Lazarus follows a group of special agents who try to stop the deadly side effects of a miracle drug in the year 2055. An already impressive trademark of the anime series are the energetic fight scenes, for which Watanabe worked with John Wick director Chad Stahelski.

8. Murderbot opens a killer bot’s diary

The sci-fi series will be exciting and funny at the same time Murderbot. Based on Martha Wells’ acclaimed Diary of a Killer Bot series, the Apple production transforms Alexander Skarsgård into a security android who must break free from the control of a futuristic mega-corporation and keep his newfound self-confidence secret. Aside from dangerous missions and rescuing annoying people, the so-called SecUnit actually just wants to watch series in peace.

9. Neuromancer adapts a cyberpunk classic

With Apple production Neuromancer William Gibson’s 1984 novel, which was groundbreaking for the cyberpunk genre, is being adapted into a film. In it, a young cyberspace hacker gets caught up in a vicious criminal spiral when his ailing nervous system is surgically pimped up. A dirty future world, people pumped full of technology, scheming AIs and lots of failed existences: If Necromancer lives up to its original, we can expect a gripping and complex world that should make the heart of every sci-fi fan beat faster

10. Star Trek opens Starfleet Academy in 2025

In recent years, the streaming service Paramount+ has expanded the Star Trek universe with several series. As the tenth live-action series in the science fiction franchise Starfleet Academy soon again in the future of the 32nd century and is dedicated to the adventures of a group of young cadets at Starfleet Academy. Not only is there a reunion with the Discovery characters Sylvia Tilly, Jett Reno and Admiral Vance, the hologram doctor from Voyager is also back in action 800 years later.

11. The Stranger Things creators are producing a new sci-fi series for Netflix

There are two reasons why series fans The Boroughs should be happy. On the one hand, Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer are behind the project as producers. The series creators are also exciting: The sci-fi story about a group of pensioners who are confronted with an extraterrestrial threat was developed by Jeffrey Addis and Will Matthews, who previously created the breathtaking fantasy epic The Dark Crystal for Netflix brought.

12. The Institute adapts Stephen King horror

The list of Stephen King film adaptations is constantly growing. The Institute adapts the horror master’s novel of the same name and leads into a mysterious facility in which kidnapped young people with telepathic and telekinetic powers are subjected to cruel experiments.

13. A spin-off for the sci-fi universe of Doctor Who

After spin-offs like Torchwood and Class, the British science fiction veteran Doctor Who will be included this year The War Between the Land and the Sea a new spin-off. The five-part miniseries created by Russel T. Davies sends the well-known military organization UNIT into the middle of a conflict with the dangerous species of Sea Devils and Silurians. The cast includes well-known names like Russell Tovey (Looking) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki).

14. Breaking Bad creator wants to conquer the sci-fi genre in 2025

Even though this new sci-fi series doesn’t even have an official title yet, it’s already one of the most promising genre projects of the year. Behind Wycaro 339 (AT) It’s none other than Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, who is working with actress Rhea Seehorn again after Better Call Saul. The location is once again Albuquerque, but nothing more is known about the mysterious project.

Even more sci-fi: 11 series highlights will return with new seasons in 2025

In addition to all the exciting new releases, sci-fi fans can also look forward to new seasons of popular genre highlights this year. Apple TV+ is once again proving to be the first port of call for really good science fiction material.

Over the course of 2025, some sci-fi series could of course be added unexpectedly and experience has shown that some launches could be postponed until next year. With the representatives presented here, you have a basis for filling your watch lists with aliens, murder bots, space adventures and more.

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