[1] The settings of his artwork have formed the basis for the 2020 Amazon television drama series Tales from the Loop as well as the upcoming 2025 Netflix film The Electric State.

[5] These ideas result in a body of work that can feature giant robots and megastructures alongside regular Swedish items like Volvo and Saab vehicles.

[3] In parallel with the real-life decline of the Swedish welfare state, large machines slowly fail, and the eventual result of this remains a mystery.

[9] It is centered around a teenage girl and her robotic companion traversing the fictional state of Pacifica in an attempt to find her long-lost younger brother.

Described as his "most personal work yet", Swedish Machines explores masculinity, sexuality, and time in an alternate version of Mälaröarna outside of Stockholm, Stålenhag's hometown.

[citation needed] In 2016, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund a tabletop role-playing game called Tales from the Loop, based on the book of the same name.

[9] Set in the 1980s, in either the United States or Sweden, players roleplay as a group of teenagers dealing with the impact of the Loop; this focus on nostalgia and young protagonists meant multiple media outlets compared it to the TV series Stranger Things.

All screenplays were written by Nathaniel Halpern, while each episode had a unique director from a diverse pool, including Mark Romanek, Andrew Stanton, and Jodie Foster.

[24] As part of the crowdfunding campaign for The Electric State, Stålenhag produced and released an electronic music album with the same title as a backer goal.