Secret Level

This article is about the animated anthology series. For the video game company formerly known by the name, see Sega Studios San Francisco. For secret levels in video games, see Secret level.

Secret Level
Genre	Anthology Science fiction Fantasy Action Horror Black comedy Psychological drama
Created by	Tim Miller
Directed by	Dave Wilson
Creative director	Jerome Denjean
Music by	Maxime Hervé Rob Cairns 2WEI Danny Bensei Saunder Jurriaans Kotomi
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Executive producers	Tim Miller Dave Wilson Jennifer Miller Nan Morales J. T. Petty
Producers	Victoria Howard Samantha Brainerd Mike Rosemeyer
Editors	Matt Mariska Julian Clarke
Running time	8–19 minutes
Production companies	Blur Studio Amazon MGM Studios
Original release
Network	Amazon Prime Video
Release	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10) – present (present)

Secret Level is an adult animated anthology series created by Tim Miller for Amazon Prime Video. It is produced by his Blur Studio with Amazon MGM Studios. Dave Wilson executive produces and serves as supervising director. It consists of fifteen stories set in the worlds of different video games. The voice cast includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart, Laura Bailey, Heaven Hart, Keanu Reeves, Gabriel Luna, Ariana Greenblatt, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Michael Beach, Emily Swallow, and Claudia Doumit.

The series was ordered by Amazon in August 2024 and was first revealed at Gamescom that month. Its first eight episodes were released worldwide on December 10, 2024, with the remaining seven episodes released on December 17, 2024. It received mixed reviews from critics. The Pac-Man episode served as promotion for the upcoming game, Shadow Labyrinth . In December 2024, the series was renewed for a second season.

Premise

The series consists of fifteen animated, standalone short stories based on the following video games and franchises: ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Brand	Owners
Armored Core	FromSoftware
Concord	Sony Interactive Entertainment
Crossfire	Smilegate
Dungeons & Dragons	Wizards of the Coast
Exodus	Archetype Entertainment
Honor of Kings	TiMi Studio Group
Mega Man	Capcom
New World: Aeternum	Amazon Games
The Outer Worlds 2	Obsidian Entertainment
Pac-Man ( Shadow Labyrinth )	Bandai Namco Entertainment
PlayStation	Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sifu	Sloclap
Spelunky	Mossmouth, LLC
Unreal Tournament	Epic Games
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2	Games Workshop

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Animation studio	Original release date	Prod. code
1	"Dungeons & Dragons: The Queen's Cradle"	Maxime Luère, Léon Bérelle, Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra	K. D. Davila and Levin Menekse Short Story by: Brooke Bolander	Unit Image (from France)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 104
Solon is taunted by an overbearing voice and rescued by Mora, Tally, Luzum and Ahokal. Mora takes him to a dragon, Oriel, as an army approaches the stronghold. Oriel absorbs the voice from Solon while the other three defeat the army. Oriel is tainted by the voice and dies as Tiamat emerges from his body. The four warriors team up with Solon, who now has holy powers, to battle Tiamat. Cast : Noah Manzoor as Solon, Madeleine Knight as Mora, Laura Wohlwend as Tally, Delroy Atkinson as Luzum, Umulisa Gahiga as Ahokal, Paul Ridley as Oriel, Rita Estevanovich and Tracy Wiles as Tiamat
2	"Sifu: It Takes a Life"	László Ruska	Rich Larson Short Story by: Rich Larson	Digic Pictures (from Hungary)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 108
A young man, MC, talks to a street vendor before seeing Sean enter The Club, one of the people that killed his father and killed him. The main character enters The Club looking for Sean and fights his way through many goons. Some of them manage to kill him, however the main character has the ability to come back to life at the cost of his age. By the time he reaches Sean to fulfill his revenge, he has aged beyond Sean's recognition. The main character returns to the street vendor, presumably after killing Sean after multiple tries as shown by his elderly appearance. The vendor initially thinks he is the main character's grandfather before realizing it is actually him. Cast : Parry Shen as MC (young), Ping Wu as MC (old), Lydia Look as Li, Nelson Lee as Sean, Feodor Chin as Thug, Rae Lim as MC (child).
3	"New World: The Once and Future King"	Maxime Luère, Léon Bérelle, Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra	Teleplay by : J. T. Petty and Philip Gelatt	Unit Image (from France)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 118
King Aelstrom and his army sail to the island of Aeternum to conquer it, however their ship is destroyed in a storm leaving no survivors except Aelstrom and his advisor Scaevola, an amputee missing an arm. They realize that they can neither leave the island nor die. Aelstrom challenges the island's ruler, King Zima, multiple times for the throne, losing every time. When Scaevola admits that Aelstrom was a terrible king, Aelstrom abandons him and, upon obtaining magical armor and weaponry, challenges Zima again, only to still be defeated. Bored of Aelstrom's efforts to overthrow him, Zima simply hands him his crown. Aelstrom runs away to wear it, only to realize that he is all alone. He seeks help from a local merchant to learn blacksmithing. After time passes, Aelstrom reconciles with Scaevola, gifting him a prosthetic arm made from the crown. Cast : Arnold Schwarzenegger as King Aelstrom, Steven Pacey as Scaevola, Gabriel Luna as King Zimah, Arazou as Urda, Dana Haqjoo as Zimah's aide, Carlo Rota as Sorcerer.
4	"Unreal Tournament: Xan"	Franck Balson	Justin Rhodes	Blur Studio (from the United States)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 102
A mining robot gains sentience and realizes that its human masters abuse robots and view them as expendable. Furious, the robot takes control of the other robots and kills their human masters. All the mining robots are arrested and forced to compete in public gladiatorial combat as a message against rebellion. Watching the fights, the sentient robot learns fighting tactics and wins its own fight. This continues, with the robot putting together a string of victories, gaining the name XAN and the approval of the masses. In an effort to learn why all the fighters are losing to a mining robot, the Gamemaster gets one of her technicians to study one of the robots while she sends her Necris Captain and his soldiers to personally fight XAN. Realizing this plan, XAN uploads itself into the robot being studied by the technician, gaining control of the stadium itself, and defeats the Captain. The Gamemaster enters the stadium with her guards to personally oversee XAN's execution, only for XAN to use its control to kill the guards and start a rebellion with the support of the audience. Cast : Elodie Yung as The Gamemaster, Gideon Emery as Necris Captain, Mitch Eakins as Dean, Chris Payne Gilbert as Parker, Carlin James as Liandri Technician, Fred Tatasciore as Arena Announcer
5	"Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear"	Dave Wilson	J. T. Petty and Justin Rhodes	Blur Studio (from the United States)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 101
Sergeant Metaurus acknowledges briefing of a mission to destroy a relic before donning his power armour, and reflects that he had recruited a youth who knew no fear, rather than needing it trained out of him to become a Space Marine. He and his squad, who include Lieutenant Titus, drop to a planet, dragging a stone sarcophagus. They battle Chaos cultists, and eventually reach the relic, a statue. There the sarcophagus opens, revealing a psyker, who provides the team with a psychic force field. A powerful Chaos sorcerer flanks the marines and kills the psyker. The sorcerer freezes time and psychically attacks each marine by preying on their deepest fears. It reaches Metaurus, who sees Titus becoming corrupted into a Chaos Marine, and he falls. Titus resists the sorcerer's attack, and he kills it. Titus contacts the marines' spacecraft, and calls in an orbital strike on the relic. Metaurus is resigned to death, but Titus disagrees, drags Metaurus out, and turns to face an oncoming hoard. Cast : Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Bladeguard Sergeant Metaurus, Clive Standen as Lieutenant Titus, Ben Plessala as Young Titus, Mark Sheppard as Astropath and Ultramarines Orbital Command, Alexa Kahn as Sorcerer of Tzeentch
6	"PAC-MAN: Circle"	Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres	Teleplay by : J. T. Petty	Illusorium (from Spain)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 115
A humanoid creature with no memories awakens in an underground complex. He is greeted by a floating yellow sphere, Puck, who tells him he is the "Chosen" who will escape the "maze": an alien world of dangerous flora, fauna and hungry ghosts. At Puck's urging, he takes up a sword and "practices" for his role, killing and eating other life. When the swordsman fails to defeat the final guardian at the exit, Puck "eats" him, gaining the power to defeat the guardian. Realizing Puck is the one who is trapped and needs his body to escape, the swordsman rips Puck out of him and dies. Puck returns to the underground complex and awakens a new "Chosen". Cast : Emily Swallow as Puck, Aleks Le as Swordsman ("The Chosen")
7	"Crossfire: Good Conflict"	Damian Nenow	Philip Gelatt Short Story by: Russ Linton	Platige Image (from Poland)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 112
Two groups of armed soldiers hunker down in an abandoned city. One group is protecting a civilian, handcuffed to a briefcase and continually asking to ensure his protection, and the other group is hunting for the briefcase. The storm blows away tarps covering the building, revealing the mercenaries, while the other forces are readied to intercept. The mercenaries split into cars, while Global Risk give chase in armored vehicles. Their sniper is able to identify the briefcase on thermal vision, and they box the mercenaries under an overpass. A firefight ensues, and the mercenaries are able to flee with the use of white phosphorus to mask their heat signatures. The briefcase in the vehicle is revealed to be a dummy, while the real briefcase is in another vehicle. Deducing its most likely escape route, Global Risk is able to give chase, eventually leading to a sea port, where one of the mercenaries is gunned down. The man cuffed to the briefcase flees, while a mercenary goes to exact revenge. Eventually, a mercenary finds the man, and is confronted by a Global Risk operator, but ends up giving up the briefcase, reiterating they're not the bad guys. The two remaining mercenaries drop off the man at the border despite his protests, and the Global Risk operators return to their base of operations, briefcase in hand. Cast : Ricky Whittle as Cross, Claudia Doumit as Layla, Samuel Roukin as Fitz, Matt Peters as Mahler, Jessica Camacho as Cabrera, Jake Matthews as Mason, Aidan Bristow as Jeffrey, Alex Jai as Unaffiliated Mercenary Driver and Global Risk Operator, Piotr Michael as Global Risk Sniper
8	"Armored Core: Asset Management"	Dave Wilson	Teleplay by : J. T. Petty Short Story by: Peter Watts	Digic Pictures (from Hungary)	December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)	#ATRI 117
An augmented core pilot is drinking at a bar. He communicates with an AI augment implanted in his brain, who tells him he needs someone to talk with, before alerting him to an incoming job. He suits up in a large mechanical suit and engages two other core pilots. He and the AI discuss the other pilots' remarkable synchronicity as he disables both mechs before continuing towards the target. He engages three more pilots, who are also incredibly skilled; he disables the heavy mech with a surprise attack and barely destroys the others by collapsing a tunnel. The pilot reaches his target, but is surprised to find a lab similar to the one where he was augmented. The AI realizes that the target was the other pilots, who are augmented like the pilot even though the technology was supposed to have been lost, and believes that the other pilots were not trying to kill them. The final enemy pilot asks for assistance, but the pilot crushes his skull with his mech, insisting that "no one is like me." Cast : Keanu Reeves as Pilot, Erin Yvette as The Voice, Temuera Morrison as Old Salt, Patrick Schwarzenegger as The Kid, Steve Blum as Dispatch and Mechanic
9	"The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep"	Bengt-Anton Runsten	Teleplay by : Heather Anne Campbell Short Story by: Siobhan Carroll	Goodbye Kansas Studios (from Sweden)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	#ATRI 111
Amos is an orphan working on a backwater planet, sorting garbage. One day, he happens upon a man putting up posters, and asks him to read it for him. The poster is for a job as a test subject for Auntie Cleo, a megacorporation who produces pharmaceuticals. He is keen on taking the job, because it lists Dr. Felicity Karo, who in the past, was another orphan whom Amos had a crush on for helping him and had a knack for making medicine. He works to pay off "stealing" the poster due to his inability to lie despite the employee trying to give him the hint to and then become a test subject, being subject to various events that eventually leads to him losing all his limbs. He finally gets to meet Felicity, who rebukes him, intent on becoming the new head and face of the company and leaving him despondent. Desperate, and once the testing on live subjects ceases in favor of releasing untested products on the public, he tries to tell the head of the company that Felicity is violating policy, he meets the head of the company, who is already Felicity. She is seemingly filled with regret, and asks him if she's a bad person, and he tells her no while she steals Amos' evidence. Cast : Brenock O'Connor as Amos, Raffey Cassidy as Felicity Karo, Fenella Woolgar as Dr. Langdon, Nicholas A. Newman as Street Advisor, Joanne Henry as Interviewer, Jamie Treacher as Chairman Courtright
10	"Mega Man: Start"	Alex Beaty	Jeff Juhasz	Illusorium (from Spain)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	#ATRI 107
In Mega City, the robotic creations of Dr. Light have been reprogrammed by Dr. Wily, sending the robots to destroy the city instead of protecting it. Rock, a humanoid creation of Light's, voices his desire to help fight, but the doctor refuses and prepares to send out Bomb Man to defeat the others. As Bomb Man boots up, one of Wily's drones hijacks him, turning him against Light and Rock. An explosion severs Rock's left hand, but he spots an ice canister and attaches it to himself. He freezes Bomb Man's projectile to his hand, which explodes and destroys the robot. Another drone attempts to infect Rock, but Rock resists and manages to destroy it. Moved by his genuine intentions and innocence, Light agrees to let Rock fight, upgrading him with new combat armor before teleporting him to Mega City to stop the rampaging robots. Cast : Alkaio Thiele as Rock, Rick Overton as Dr. Light, Bridget Oberlin as News Anchor 1, Brad Abrell as News Anchor 2
11	"Exodus: Odyssey"	Alex Beaty	Tim Miller	Blur Studio (from the United States)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	TBA
Nik Hanson is a mechanic on the recently colonized ice world Lidon. Yearning for more, his daughter Mari runs away with Rafael to explore the galaxy and search for priceless artifacts. Having lost his wife, Nik desperately follows clues in search of her and utilizes warp gates that accelerate his ship to near light speed. Due to time dilation, his decade-long journey means several decades have passed for Mari. He reaches a point where Mari, Rafael, and their crew stole from an alien empire called the Celestials and were fleeing them. Nik becomes a servant to the Celestials, and in their pursuit, Nick is eventually able to catch up with Mari, who is now older than him. Nick steals a ship and escapes the Celestials with Mari, who gives him a map to more artifacts before finally passing away. Nik returns to Lidon and returns an artifact to make the planet more hospitable to Kara Voss, granddaughter of Thadie, who initially lent Nik the means to chase after his daughter. Despite the value of the artifact, Nik insists on leaving without payment, setting off in search of more artifacts in the memory of his daughter. Cast : Nikko Austin Smith as Mari Hanson, Michael Beach as Nik Hanson, Lily Cowles as Kara Voss, Christopher Sean as Rafael Sabatine, Courtenay Taylor as Thadie Voss, Paul Nakauchi as Luca Sabatine
12	"Spelunky: Tally"	Emily Dean	Teleplay by : Tamsyn Muir Short Story by: Tamsyn Muir	Illusorium (from Spain)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	TBA
Ana Spelunky is a young adventurer, fleeing from a large mole like creature. She leaps across a gap over a pit of spikes, but narrowly misses the other ledge, falling to her death. She awakens in a cavern, to be greeted by an older adventurer, Liz Mutton, who consoles her. Ana resolves to run again, brushing off her death and resurrection with aplomb. However, after more deaths and resurrections, Ana eventually grows despondent. Liz points out tallies, marking her own countless deaths and revivals, and points out that there's so much beauty in each different "run", and the memories that remain, inspiring Ana to run again. Cast : Ariana Greenblatt as Ana Spelunky, Merle Dandridge as Liz Mutton
13	"Concord: Tale of the Implacable"	Patrick Osborne	Teleplay by : J. T. Petty and Christian Taylor Short Story by: Rachael K. Jones	Axis Studios (from Scotland)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	TBA
Cassidy, a freegunner and captain, is captured and bound to extract a stolen chip from her arm. The nurse pleads for her release, but the officer refuses. However, the crew distracts the guards, allowing Kai to shoot a line into the operating room, enabling Cassidy’s escape. A firefight ensues, and the officer cuts the rope, killing Cassidy. The crew escapes with the new pilot, arguing about the failed heist. Cassidy reveals her survival, and they flee to the Tempest, extracting the map of all star lanes worth a billion credits. Trapped by Guild ships, their pilot betrays them. Kai tricks the pilot, opens the airlock while everyone is bound, and they transmit the map to all pirates, escaping in their damaged ship. The narrator suggests their survival is uncertain, but they escaped the heist. Cast : Leah Harvey as Cassidy Taimak, Arthur Lee as Kai, Max Rinehart as Julius, Dimitri Abold as Rade, Rachel Handshaw as Sladie, Laura Bailey as Smokes, Louis Martin as Callosian Officer, Derek Phillips as Lennox, Kerry Gutierrez as Spitz, Darin De Paul as Bartender / Narrator, Clay Savage as Guild Security Officer 1, William Calvert as Guild Security Officer 2
14	"Honor of Kings: The Way of All Things"	Csaba Vicze	Teleplay by : J. T. Petty Short Story by: S. L. Huang	Digic Pictures (from Hungary)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	TBA
Yi Xing, an orphaned young man, seeks to challenge the Tiangong, a supercomputer controlling his city. Fueled by hatred for Tiangong’s role in his parents’ deaths and seeing the decline in the city's maintenance, Yi hopes to usurp the Tiangong's power over the city by beating it in a game. Yi challenges the Tiangong to a game of weiqi/go, of which Yi is a master. During the game, the Tiangong claims that all things are predetermined and that it has already predicted all future actions. The Tiangong creates images and constructs to illustrate its philosophical points. During the game, Yi Xing sees that their game has direct impacts on the city around them. After being shown that his parents sacrificed themselves to save the city, Yi resolves to sacrifice himself and the Tiangong by playing moves which will impact the two of them at the city's center. The Tiangong resigns. Yi Xing exits the palace, now with the Tiangong's power to control the city. This is all is revealed to be just an image or construct that the Tiangong has been watching. It then steps out to begin the earlier scene of the episode where Yi first approached it. Cast : Aleks Le as Yi Xing, Nelson Lee as Tiangong, Victor Chao as Mad Beggar, Joy Osmanski as Yi Xing's Mother, Lee Shorten as Yi Xing's Father
15	"Playtime: Fulfillment"	Istvan Zorkoczy	Teleplay by : J. T. Petty Short Story by: Rich Larson	Digic Pictures (from Hungary)	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	TBA
O is a delivery cyclist, dangerously weaving through traffic to make her delivery deadline. The glasses she wears overlay score and path and her timer, showing a heavily gamified world. She makes the delivery just in the nick of time, only to be rewarded with a virtual skin for her bike of simply burnt orange, despite the bike already being orange. Buddibot, her hovering pet and assistant, tries to convince her the value of the skin. A mysterious stranger appears, and gives her a package with a handwritten address. Buddibot warns her not to take it, but she does, revealing a small blue glowing starfish like creature referred to as a Conduit. Despite Buddibot's protestation, she can't free herself from the Conduit, and verifies it is real by peering under her glasses. Helldivers appear in the street in front of her, demanding she surrender the Conduit, but she flees. The Conduit transforms her bicycle into a sleek motorcycle reminiscent of a Playstation, until she's intercepted by a Colossus and Kratos. The Conduit transforms her motorcycle into a flying vehicle, and Buddibot, who was left behind after being hit by traffic, transforms and summons the other ubiquitous buddibots to kill her for breach of contract. She makes it to the address, which is shown to be her childhood home and she exits, the world now populated by Playstation properties, including Journey and Little Big Planet. The stranger is shown to be her friend Johnny, and O agrees to play again with him, the motorcycle reappearing and Johnny transforming into the Colossus again. Cast : Heaven Hart as O, Kevin Hart as Buddibot, Jonny Cruz as Johnny, Christopher Judge as Kratos, Andrew Morgado as Helldiver, Fred Tatasciore as Helldiver, Mara Junot as Helldiver

Production

Secret Level was created by Tim Miller, who executive produces at his company Blur Studio. Blur Studio serves as a production company along with Amazon MGM Studios. Dave Wilson serves as executive producer and supervising director. The series was ordered by Amazon Prime Video on August 14, 2024. ^[5]

After production but before series release, Concord had come out but was pulled from sale within two weeks by Sony due to low sales and player counts. Miller stated that they did not consider pulling the Concord episode, in part to respect the work that had already been put into it, and that some of the other episodes featured games that had yet to be released. ^[6]

On December 17, 2024, the series was renewed for a second season. ^[7]

Promotion

A character resembling actor Keanu Reeves who appears in the Armored Core episode gained media attention when the series was revealed. His casting was officially confirmed in October 2024.

The series was announced during Gamescom on August 20, 2024. A trailer was released at the event, which featured segments from each of the episodes. ^{[1] [9]}

The pilot who features in the Armored Core episode was the subject of media attention and speculation due to his resemblance to actor Keanu Reeves. ^{[10] [11]} Though Prime Video declined to disclose casting information at the time of the announcement, ComicBook.com reported an influx of "nearly nothing but replies about Reeves and his potential appearance in [the series]" under a post by Armored Core's social media account. ^[12] IGN 's Wesley Yin-Poole said that were it not really Reeves, the actor could claim a royalty payment due to the certainty of the character's likeness to his. ^[13] GamesRadar+ 's Ali Jones remarked that while the shot could have been "simply be an ethnically ambiguous man with similar facial hair", they noted the likeness, and doubted that Armored Core would place the image so prominently on their social media account if it were "just some random actor" and not Reeves. ^[14]

In October 2024 Reeves's casting was officially revealed alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart, Heaven Hart, Gabriel Luna, Ariana Greenblatt, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Michael Beach, Emily Swallow, and Claudia Doumit. ^[8]

A video game that continues the story of the Pac-Man episode, titled Shadow Labyrinth , is scheduled for release in 2025. ^[15]

Release

The series premiered its first part worldwide on December 10, 2024. ^[16] with a second part releasing on December 17, 2024. ^[8]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Secret Level has an approval rating of 69% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Secret Level's melange of video game shorts can't help but feel like a glorified sizzle reel, but these vignettes pack a mean punch in small doses." ^[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 53 out of 100 based on nine critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. ^[18] Steven Nguyen Scaife of IGN said the show "struggles to find satisfying stories for a short-form anthology" in a 5/10 review and felt dissatisfied by the selection of the source material. ^[19] Aramide Tinubu of Variety wrote that "the show acts as poorly written AI summaries of massive tales". ^[20]

Accolades

The series was nominated at the 23rd Visual Effects Society Awards in the category of Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode, Commercial, Game Cinematic, or Real-Time Project. ^[21]

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21. Pederson, Erik (January 14, 2025). "VES Awards Nominations: Sandworms, Apes, Felines & Tornadoes Vie For Top Film Prize". Deadline. Retrieved January 14, 2025.

External links

• Secret Level at IMDb