Is there endgame? Is money worth anything?

[Lippuringo]

In ETS money worth nothing and there's no real progression. Is there anything like that? Like in Shipbreaker there was some end goal and this make it more motivated to play longer.

[ExoSuitOne]

With a game like this, if an "end game" is your goal, then you may be playing the wrong game. I just want to have something to chill to while I drink my coffee in the mornings and get off of work. Like, yes, Deep Rock Galactic has an "end game" in the Deep Dive system, but really, it's just there for the extra challenge. In that game I just want to be a Dwarf mining some minerals and blowing up bugs (and occasionally ourselves). The end game isn't the goal, fun is.

[Fabe]

I Think games like this and ATS/ETU are about the journeys , not some final game destination

[Konsaki]

There is a progression tree with story elements. I guess you could consider the game 'done' once you complete them all and fully upgrade your truck?

[sl.eyozin]

Like Konsaki said. There are upgrades for your truck to buy and depending on the difficulty level you picked at the start you are swimming in money or always scrape by.
I suggest playing the game a bit on standard until you have a feel for the gameplay systems and start a new game with custom difficulty where you can adjust a lot of things you consider as to easy or annoying, like payout for jobs, bonuses, fines, occurrence of salvages, damage to your truck on collision or permadeath to name a few.

After "beating" the game, you can consider to up the ante by adjusting some of the options and start a new game.
Unfortunately you can only pick your options on a new game, but if Iron-Man runs or Hardcore difficulties are your thing, you can consider this as "endgame".