Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.23.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($6.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($5.99)
- Last discount ended
- 3 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
"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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 34 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.23. The record reaches that level 26 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pentiment ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats The Henry Stickmin Collection ($14.99, scores 73).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 329 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
2.4 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
66% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's just delightful. I read the whole thing with a smile on my face. Don't skip the bonus chapter. It's basically the proper second part of the whole thing, and maybe even better than the main one.
I love this game very much, the story is very funny and relatable. The art is very cute too.
Tiger-chan is best girl, as they say. This game is a good time all around. Funny writing, a solid story, great art and music, oodles of waifus, Succules, a full implementation of hit mobile game Lumber Lass, educational material on the future of cuisine, and there's even a bonus chapter that's the same size as the base game! Regarding AI: I've been watching the rapid spread of anti-AI and pro-AI psychosis, and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2262610/endless-monday-dreams-and-deadlinesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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