Games like Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
If Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Endless Monday: In Progress, Astronaut: The Best and Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines is a 2023 indie adventure visual novel set in a corporate office environment. Players guide Penny, a regular office worker, through a surreal weekend attempt to complete a work project while navigating encounters with coworkers, unusual distractions, and personal challenges. The game features a choice-driven narrative with multiple endings, achievement hunting, relationship building, and time-management mechanics. Players describe it as atmospheric, contemplative, cozy, and melancholic, with reviewers highlighting how its choices meaningfully alter relationships and endings. The experience resonates with its relatable themes of corporate burnout and procrastination, while also offering social commentary on broader creative and workplace concerns. Currently verified on Steam Deck and priced at $6.49, it holds a 99% positive rating from 1278 Steam reviews.
About Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines: "Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
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Endless Monday: In Progress
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Top pick for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
AdventureSteam ↗Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Shares time management with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Second-strongest match for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Third-strongest match for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Ranked #4 for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, time management and an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Ranked #5 for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and time management with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Ranked #6 for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a contemplative mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Ranked #7 for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Ranked #8 for Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Reviewers of Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Reviewers of Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~69% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~77% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~85% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Shares time management with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, time management and an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and time management with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Frequently asked about Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
- Is Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines cost?
- Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines is listed on Steam at 6.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines are Endless Monday: In Progress, Astronaut: The Best, Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog.
- Who developed Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines?
- Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines was developed by hcnone.
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