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Games like Check Back

Check Back mostly idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox cover art

    Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

    Also slow, very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    Seed a world with plants, herbivores, and carnivores whose genes mutate each generation, then leave it running and return to see what evolved or died out.

    45% steam
    90% idle
  2. 20,000 Miles Under the Sea cover art

    20,000 Miles Under the Sea

    Also very idle, slow · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A diver sinks toward the bottom of the Mariana Trench while you watch or minimize the game, deciding when to quit before meeting what lurks below.

    39% steam
    90% idle
  3. Rock Simulator 2 cover art

    Rock Simulator 2

    Also slow, very idle

    Be a rock and watch the world change around you, unlocking over 100 rocks at a deliberately slow pace, alone or with friends.

    93% steam
    70% idle
  4. LurkBait Twitch Fishing cover art

    LurkBait Twitch Fishing

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A Twitch overlay where viewers cast lines through chat, points or subs, and the fishing plays out on its own while you stream.

    98% steam
    90% idle
  5. Viridi cover art

    Viridi

    Also slow · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    Care for a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Water them, name them, and keep the window open beside your work.

    92% steam
    90% idle
  6. Rusty's Retirement cover art

    Rusty's Retirement

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A tiny robot farm that lives at the edge of your screen while you do other things. Idle in the purest sense.

    97% steam
    15–30h ending
    95% idle
  7. The Dream Globe cover art

    The Dream Globe

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A tiny world inside a snow globe runs on its own while you check in to buy upgrades. Discover over 100 gems, crops and foods across dream regions.

    94% steam
    90% idle
  8. Fishing The Abyss cover art

    Fishing The Abyss

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A small robot fishes by itself in a tall window beside your work, leveling up to reach deeper water and stranger catches. Clicking helps but is optional.

    95% steam
    90% idle
  9. My Little Life cover art

    My Little Life

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A small person lives out their life in a strip along the bottom of your screen, working, decorating and chasing dreams while you do other things.

    91% steam
    90% idle
  10. Hero Tale cover art

    Hero Tale

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A background auto-battler: a hero fights across a fantasy island while you check in to spend points in a 300-node skill tree and swap loot.

    71% steam
    90% idle
  11. 修炼成仙 cover art

    修炼成仙

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A minimal text cultivation game: create a character and it fights, loots, and trains on its own from its first steps toward ascension and rebirth.

    71% steam
    90% idle

  12. Omega Meta ZeroDormant

    Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A zero-player incremental meant to run like a screensaver, watching a number climb to absurd heights in Omega Layers notation.

    85% idle
  13. THE LONGING cover art

    THE LONGING

    Also slow

    Wait 400 real days in an underground palace for a king to wake. The clock runs while the game is closed, so you can explore or simply leave.

    92% steam
    has ending
    70% idle
  14. A Game of Chance cover art

    A Game of ChanceUpdated

    Also very idle

    Flip coins and chase rare events, spending the rewards on upgrades and new modes until the game runs on its own, even with the tab closed.

    4.1★ galaxy
    70% idle
  15. 挂机神话 cover art

    挂机神话

    Also very idle

    A meme-heavy Chinese cultivation idler about farming procedurally generated gear and characters through an endless tower. Chinese-language store text.

    90% steam
    70% idle
  16. Settlemoon cover art

    Settlemoon

    Also slow

    Build a side-scrolling fantasy town in real time, posting quests for visiting adventurers and decorating as it grows. It keeps working while the game is closed.

    87% steam
    70% idle
  17. The Generator Tree cover art

    The Generator TreeUpdated

    Also slow

    A Modding Tree game with a compact layout for phones, where most time is spent waiting and the active parts are prestiging and buying upgrades.

    3.4★ galaxy
    70% idle
  18. Mushroom Nook cover art

    Mushroom NookDormant

    Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    Mushrooms sprout on your desktop to collect, water and grow through several phases. Decorate a little garden that sits beside your work.

    98% steam
    90% idle
  19. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator cover art

    Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    Also slow

    Float in a pool as a rubber duck while more ducks drop in one by one, with a day and night cycle and calm music.

    98% steam
  20. Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game cover art

    Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game

    Also slow

    Wake alone in a magic-ruined world and stretch scarce resources while waiting, reading and uncovering what happened.

    4.5★ galaxy
  21. Matter Dimensions cover art

    Matter Dimensions

    Also slow

    A slow Antimatter Dimensions-style incremental where you start with one unit of matter and fight stacking nerfs.

    4.2★ galaxy
  22. Melvor Idle cover art

    Melvor Idle

    Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    RuneScape's skilling loop distilled into menus. Train twenty skills, fight dungeons, fill the completion log.

    90% steam
    85% idle
  23. Mountain cover art

    Mountain

    Also slow

    You are a mountain. Time passes, weather and life come and go on your slopes, and you mostly watch.

    88% steam
  24. Ropuka's Idle Island cover art

    Ropuka's Idle Island

    Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    A frog mows grass in a small window on your desktop; spend the clippings on better tools and island decorations.

    97% steam
    90% idle