Amazon Renews ‘Secret Level’ for a Second Season, Revealing Its Not-So-Secret Success

Although Secret Level didn’t quite impress everyone, it managed to draw a large audience, prompting Amazon to renew it for a second season.

The trend of turning video games into screen stories seems to be thriving this year. Fallout and Arcane both saw significant success when they premiered. It now appears that Amazon’s animated anthology series, Secret Level, is following in their footsteps. According to Variety, Amazon revealed that Secret Level recorded Prime Video’s biggest debut for an animated series in its first week.

While the platform didn’t release specific viewership numbers—since that’s never the case—data from Luminate shows that in the U.S. alone, viewers watched the show for a whopping 155.3 million minutes during its debut week. If you break that down to the series’ total runtime of 109 minutes, it translates to about 1.4 million views.

I find it fascinating that a show’s quality sometimes takes a back seat when it comes to attracting viewers. Personally, I didn’t find Secret Level particularly compelling; it neither stood out as an independent piece nor sold me on the games it was intertwined with. That being said, the fact that the Pac-Man episode is getting its own video game next year adds a curious twist—it’s like things have come full circle.

This development underscores how hot video game adaptations are right now. It’s not just Secret Level; other series like Fallout are quickly getting greenlit for additional seasons (production recently began for its next season). Even lesser-known games like Sega’s Eternal Champions are being turned into adaptations. It seems obvious in hindsight: video games are massively popular, and there’s an almost endless pool of them ripe for transformation into television shows or films!