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A brilliant man's moral certainty spirals into a cat-and-mouse manhunt, echoing the same slow-burn detective duel you loved.

Two young masterminds outthink the police in a battle of ideology versus law, mirroring Light and L's chess match.

A charismatic anti-hero plots to dismantle a corrupt system while a rival detective closes in, capturing that same intellectual duel.

Political conspiracy unravels through a dogged investigator's philosophical reckoning with justice, much like Light's cerebral cat-and-mouse.

An outsider hides a lethal secret among peers who could expose them, keeping that same tension of concealed identity and deduction.

A brilliant strategist uses hidden power to reshape the world by his own moral logic, just as ruthlessly as Light did.

Judgment over life and death gets examined through quiet, unsettling philosophical stakes, the same weight you felt watching Light's choices.

A near-future justice system raises the same uneasy question of who gets to decide who deserves to live free.

Ordinary people gain god-like power and must decide how far they'll go to remake the world, echoing Light's temptation.

It swaps the notebook for a card table, but the same cold calculus of outsmarting a genius opponent under mortal stakes remains.

A wrongly framed protagonist races against time to outsmart a hidden killer, keeping that same detective-versus-culprit tension.

A cornered man is forced into brutal psychological games, giving you the same tense battle-of-wits thrill without the supernatural notebook.

Bright-eyed kids uncovering a horrifying system mirrors Light's slow realization that his moral crusade has monstrous machinery underneath.

Detective-agency intrigue and a mouthy genius sleuth give you that same battle-of-wits thrill, just with more banter and less bloodshed.

A quiet host hiding a lethal, calculating passenger inside him echoes Light's own double life as ordinary student and secret killer.

Revenge plotted with patient, methodical precision against a criminal underworld feels like Light's cat-and-mouse game relocated to Prohibition streets.

An ordinary man handed godlike power must decide what

A soft-spoken schemer manipulates every rule of a deadly game with the same eerie, unshakable calm Light brought to his plans.

Swap the notebook for a time machine, but the same paranoid unraveling of a brilliant mind's choices carries through.

Icy strategists reading each other's every twitch across a table recreate the tense psychological duels that hooked you here.

Detectives chasing a shadowy figure through a city sliding into chaos capture the same slow, dread-soaked unraveling of society.

A sharp-minded amateur solving twisted crimes case by case gives you that same puzzle-box detective satisfaction, minus the moral rot.

Diving into a killer's own warped mind to outthink them is the same intimate battle of intellect against evil you loved.

A morally ambiguous protagonist tangled in murder investigations she's uncomfortably close to mirrors Light's blurred line between hunter and hunted.