Interest Stacks

Whatever story might be being told, however familiar or unusual the story itself may be, they tend to have a setting that's easy to understand. Contemporary or historical non-fictional, futuristic sci-fi or cyberpunk, fantasy settings with swords and sorcery, etc. While there can be changes these settings to make them unique, they still remain familiar.

Sometimes, however, we're thrown into a setting where things may look superficially familiar to some degree but are elsewise alien, unusual or anomalous. Worlds where the rules aren't entirely clear at first. "Bizarre" is a hard metric to measure, but if you like worlds that get weird, then this list will probably have something for you.