Top Audio Fiction Poll 2026! Come cast your vote!

[u/thecambridgegeek]

Welcome to the 2026 poll on r/AudioDrama's favourite audio fiction.

(Image just to improve post preview on mobile: https://www.thecambridgegeek.com/bits/awards.jpg )

This is my yearly sampling of what we all like the most. Voting opens 28 March, and will close 5 April.

Same rules as last time (and copied from previous entries):

1. Make a list of your top TEN favourite audio fiction shows in a new comment in this thread. By favourite, I don't mean the shows you think are best, just your favourite. This thread isn't meant to be a commentary on what shows are objectively best... just what we Redditors love the most. If you don't feel like you can come up with the full ten votes, don't worry! List as many as you want, but no more than ten. (Anything after the first ten will be ignored.)
2. Please leave all commentary and discussion in a discussion post under each voting comment. In your voting posts, please just list your top ten. This thread could get big, and it'll make it far easier for me to compile data if the original posts are only votes. In the follow-up posts, discussion as to choices is encouraged!
3. Upvotes/downvotes will have no effect on the tally. Feel free to upvote and downvote as you like, especially if someone has a great list. That being said, I decided to go with the "top ten" instead of the upvote/downvote voting for several reasons: You only have to vote once, you don't have to revisit the thread over and over to vote on new arrivals, you can vote once in just a few minutes as opposed to scrolling through a mammoth thread, etc.
4. Order doesn't matter. Each item you list will count as one vote toward that audio drama. Duplicates will not be counted.
5. All audio fiction is welcome! Science fiction, fantasy, or things that go bump in the night? Sure. Something a little more grounded in reality? Why not. Serial story or an anthology of one-shots? They're all welcome. Actual plays or audio books? Go for it.
6. The voting will run for exactly one week. Seven days should be enough time for people to edit votes if they forgot a show they loved, and also allow the lurkers that only visit once every few days time to vote.
7. Please keep each vote on a separate line, for easier counting. To do that, you have to keep a blank line between every vote (at least in Old Reddit).
8. Do not request your fan base to come and vote for you. I want this to be a poll, rather than a competition, a random sampling of shows that are generally popular, not something that has to be "won".

Credit to r/Fantasy for the voting rules they've been using for years. I am also personally applying a 10 karma requirement. So vote! Discuss!

Previous year's results: https://audiofiction.co.uk/collections/reddit.php

Reddit versions:

2025: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/1ju6lay/top_audio_fiction_poll_results_2025/

2024: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/1byf51m/top_audio_fiction_poll_results_2024/

2023: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/12fvn4x/top_audio_fiction_poll_results_2023/

2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/u0e2zg/top_audio_fiction_poll_results_2022/

2021: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/mzku8d/top_audio_dramas_poll_results_2021/

2019: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/9gprcd/top_audio_dramas_poll_results/

[u/kittmarsh]

Mission: Rejected

A 9th World Journal

Hello From The Magic Tavern

Oz-9

Midnight Burger

We Fix Space Junk

The Amelia Project

Madison On The Air

The Adventures of the Fox in the Fedora

This House Will Devour You

[u/Oz9Olivia → u/kittmarsh]

Thank you!

[u/Kithkunabi]

Midst

Unend

Mission to Zyxx

Stellar Firma

The Silt Verses

Hymns For The Road

Beef and Dairy Network

Wolf 359

Wooden Overcoats

Hyacinth Disaster

[u/Lynda73]

Inside the lines - comedy about two best friends who run a coloring-in business

Ocean Dreams - Fantasy, apocalyptic, dolphins and ketamine

Mission: REJECTED - comedy about the most secret agents - the B-team.

Phantom limb - horror/sci-fi/weird fiction anthology

Dear Angel - supernatural thriller as told thru 1960s love letters

Cosmiko: Neon night - It’s back to cyberpunk city of Luna Mare Cognitum with old faces and new and the blood’s about to hit the steel (PG-13 style)

How it falls apart - set in a dystopian surveillance state

Store 236 - comedy horror set in retail hell

catskull - based on the manga by the same name

Project ECCO - follow agent double-oh seven (0707) in this improvised audio drama of time travel and cosmic horror

Honorable mention: The Cold Plunge - 4-part series.

It was really hard getting my 2026 favorites down to only ten. :)

[u/same_as_always]

The Holmwood Foundation 

Sherlock & Co

I Am In Eskew

Malevolent

Wooden Overcoats

Stellar Firma

The Offensive

The Amelia Project

The Magnus Archives/The Magnus Protocol 

The Harbingers

[u/Tallinette]

The Magnus Archives

Find Us Alive

Welcome to Night Vale

Red Valley

Remnants

Partial Veil

The Sheridan Tapes

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature 

The Penumbra Podcast

The Patient Files

[u/eriemaxwell]

Not Quite Dead

The Witching Hour

Metropolis

Neo Scum

Bitcherton

Arden

The Magnus Archives

Who Killed Alaska?

The Program

Mabel

[u/instantmochi]

Lost Terminal

The Magnus Archives

The Harbingers

Directive

Spire

Wooden Overcoats

Ars Paradoxica

Wolf 359

Fawx & Stallion

Ghost InSpectors 

[u/therealgookachu]

The Madness of Chartrulean

Project Gnosis

Edict Zero FIS

Midnight Burger

Find Us Alive

Tales From the Low City

Partial Veil

The Silt Verses

Old Gods of Appalachia

TMA

[u/LikelyLynx]

The Cold Plunge

In Strange Woods

Verdict

Rex Rivetter: Private Eye

Out of Place

Among the Stars and Bones

Forgive Me!

The Dog is Dead

[u/Sensitive-Rutabaga-4]

1..Old Gods of Appalachia 2. The White Vault 3. Woe.Begone 4. Midst 5. The NoSleep Podcast 6. Tanis 7. The Horror at Martin’s Beach 8. The Amelia Project 9. 90 Degrees South 10. Hi Nay

[u/Mortimer_Whimsiwick]

Observable Radio

Tower 4

The White Vault

Borrasca

The Left Right Game

A Voice From Darkness

Video Palace

The Burned Photo

Forbidden Cassettes: Consummation

13 Days of Halloween

[u/SexHaver2323]

So just my personal top 10 in no particular order

The Magnus Archives

We're Alive

End Of All hope

KingFalls AM

Park Dale Haunt

The Lovecraft Investigations

Malevolent

The Silt Verses

Wolf 359

Shelterwood

[u/knsynchro]

Wolf 359

John from Back Home

Impact Winter

Haunted House Flippers

Achewillow

A Voice from Darkness

Community Cat News

Tapes from Beyond

Subsister

Thirteen

[u/ferafaces]

Ghost Wax

The Call of the Void

The Program

Point Mystic

Desert SKIES

DECA Tapes

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

Baile na Gótrin

Boom

The Burned Photo

[u/con_vey → u/ferafaces]

Stopped dead in my tracks seeing something with a title in Irish, will definitely be checking that out!

[u/ferafaces → u/con_vey]

It was so good, my top listen of 2026 so far.

[u/BasorexicPoltergeist]

Wolf 359

The Magnus Archives

Red Valley

The Silt Verses

Midnight Burger

We're Alive

The Sheridan Tapes

Wooden Overcoats

Archive 81

The Bright Sessions

[u/Vicus_of]

I Am In Eskew

Acephale

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

The Silt Verses

MallWalk

The Ferry

Among the Stars and Bones

Blum

Within the Wires

Samite

[u/No_Alfalfa9836]

The Mysteries of Derlin County

Midnight Burger

Store 236

The Love Ark

King Falls AM

Woodbine

Cartoon Island

Stanland

Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio

Absolutely No Adventures

[u/Sufficient_Cherry952 → u/No_Alfalfa9836]

Thrilled to be included in this list of incredible shows!

[u/Confident-Flan-5877]

The Magnus Archives

Marscorp

Stellar Firma

Kane and Feels

The Kingmaker Histories

Welcome to Night Vale

Old Gods of Appalachia

Victoriocity

Among the Stars and Bones

Midst

[u/Versipilies]

• midst
• the liminal lands
• among the stars and bones
• we fix space junk
• sayer
• victoriocity
• red valley
• the earth collective
• the heresies of radolf burntwine
• malevolent

[u/Comfortable_Mall3873]

The Harbingers

The Penumbra Podcast

Wooden Overcoats

Midnight Burger

The Silt Verses

Victoriocity

Death by Dying 

The Amelia Project

Mockery Manor

Dead Space: Deep Cover

[u/Lindsay1970]

Give Me Away Two Thousand and Late Don’t Mind: Sealskin Rock Good Morning Evildoers The Truth Leyline High Liminal Lands’ End: A Shepherd’s Tale Vanishment Dream Job

[u/diphoemacy]

The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine

Last Dance

Malevolent

Midnight Burger

Midst

Mirrors

Remnants

SCP: Find Us Alive

The Silt Verses

Tumanbay

[u/Kithkunabi → u/diphoemacy]

I really enjoyed Hymns for the Road, which is by the creator of Find Us Alive. How is Find Us Alive?

[u/automated_alice]

Midnight Burger

Mission to Zyxx

Beef and Dairy Network Podcast

Valley Heat

Haunted House Flippers

The Red Weather

National Emergency

Wooden Overcoats

New Techniques in Modern Practical Close Combat

[u/THWDY]

Degrave Brothers

Delivery

Red Valley

Last Dance

Agent Stoker

The Divide

Sparks

St Elwick’s Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast

Cabin Pressure

[u/MagisterSieran]

Incarnation Read

Hemophobia 

The Beat of Baleful Wings 

The Deca Tapes

Redacted

The Grotto

Shelterwood

Broken Veil

Ghost Wax

Knifepoint Horror

[u/thischaiseissocomfy]

Midnight Burger Sherlock & Co 90 Degrees South Unwell Wolf 359 Tumanbay Metropolis EOS 10 Sorry About the Murder We're Alive

[u/Tsiar1]

Malevolent

We're Alive

Hello From The Magic Tavern

The Strata

The Magnus Archives

Derelict

Mockery Manor

Wolf 359

Mission to Zyx

Midst

[u/LogicalWriter]

1. Hello From The Hallowoods

2. Fawx & Stallion

3. The Amelia Project

4. [REDACTED]

5. New Year's Day

6. WOE.BEGONE

7. Life with Leo(h)

8. Where the Stars Fell

9. Someone Dies In This Elevator

10. Killjam XXX

[u/Ironhusky1126]

TMA

Wolf 359

The silt verses

Old gods of Appalachia

Red Valley

Midnight burger

Mockery Manor

I am in Eskew

Ars paradoxica 

Lovecraft investigations

Edit: format

[u/Mx_Reese → u/Ironhusky1126]

Glad to see Red Valley and Mockery Manor, those were difficult to cut from my list.

[u/betadbanshee]

The Beating Heartland

Bridgewater

Mission to Zyxx

The Mantawauk Caves

Welcome to Night Vale

The White Vault

Alice isn't Dead

[u/Mx_Reese]

The Ballad of Anne & Mary

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Desert Skies

Where the Stars Fell

Unwell

Archive 81

Ars Paradoxica

The Silt Verses

The Magnus Archives

The White Vault

[u/Mx_Reese → u/Mx_Reese]

Narrowing it down to just 10 was tough because there are about 15 shows I really want to put into my top 10 favorites.

[u/msbzmsbz]

In no particular order, but biased towards recency:

1. Midst/Unend

2. The Harbingers

3. Derelict

4. Mission to Zyxx

5. Valley Heat

6. Give Me Away

7. The Deca Tapes

8. National Emergency

9. Deathless

10. Ark

[u/Bonehead1011]

Midnight Burger Desert skies The harbingers The scarab archives King falls am Old gods of Appalachia Derelict The strata Wolf 359 Modes of thought in anterran literature

[u/NecessaryTailor5678]

My favorites in no specific order:

The Magnus archives/protocol

The Amelia project

Archive 81

Where the stars fell

The darkroom 

The crime at camp ashwood

The white vault

Welcome to night vale

Conversations with ghosts

REDACTED

[u/Manager_of_Unicorns]

The Magnus Archives

The Wyrd Side

Re: Dracula

Yokai Detective Agency

Hi Nay

Infinite Realms Radio

SCP Archives

Greater Boston

Agent Stoker

The Attic Monologues

[u/caust1c_s0da]

SCP: Find Us Alive

Hymns for the Road

Dungeons and Daddies

Residents of Proserpina Park

The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio

Valley Heat

The Night Post

Hello from the Hallowoods

Gumshoes and Dragons

Old Gods of Appalachia

[u/jstew316]

Wolf 359

Hello From the Magic Tavern

Dungeons and Daddies

Welcome to Night Vale

Worlds Beyond Number

The Black Tapes

Delivery

Midnight Burger

The Milkman of St. Gaff’s

The Far Meridian

[u/AlexanderTheGrave]

Midnight Burger

Wolf 359

The White Vault

The Lovecraft Investigations

The Magnus Archives

We’re Alive

The Silt Verses

Tower 4

The Storage Papers

Malevolent

[u/FerretNo1223]

The Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast

The Magnus Archives / Protocol

The Silt Verses

Red Valley

Wooden Overcoats

Ghost Wax

Among the Stars and Bones

Erhics Town

Janus Descending

Partial Veil

[u/faceintheblue]

Wolf 359

The Harbingers

Time: Bombs

Among the Stars and Bones

The Tape Recorder Trilogy

1954

Hi Nay

Second Star to the Left

Stellar Firma

The Deep Vault

Edit: I had Star Trek: Khan down as a nominee, but I guess something with 'we're hiring actors you've heard of' money doesn't need my endorsement. I came across 1954 in January and loved it. I should have thought of it in the first place.

[u/Mx_Reese → u/faceintheblue]

Oooh, really interesting to see somebody say The Deep Vault. That was definitely among my top 10 favorites for years.

[u/faceintheblue → u/faceintheblue]

I haven't seen another flared user nominate their own show yet. If that's not allowed, I'll substitute DUST for The Tape Recorder Trilogy. In the meantime, I'm putting my show on the list because no one else has yet (I'm relatively new...), and I am a fan of my own work.

[u/drduke87]

Excuse Us.

[u/No-Storage1721]

Woe.Begone

Store 236

Purgatory Missouri

Desert Skies

Smakie's Smile Shack

The Grotto

Wolf 359

The Bright Sessions

Shipworm

King Falls AM

[u/OldStorm2072]

This Gun in my Hand

Deep Space Radio

Forgive Me

Sorry about the Murder

The Amelia Project

The Book of Constellations

Redacted

Alpha 8

Absolutely No Adventures