https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/312804/pendulum is real-time worker-placement. It's pretty good and fun, as long as you can trust everyone not to cheat (even by accident), and if you get sand timers that don't quietly stick when you're not looking at them. Warning: The rulebook suggests learning the mechanics via a turn-based "non-real-time" variant which my wife and I actually found more confusing than just jumping right into the sand-timer-based full game. My advice is to jump right in.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31481/galaxy-trucker is of course fantastic. But more than 50% of the game is not real-time and, as in several Vlaada Chvatil games (e.g. Dungeon Lords), you have to enjoy kind of watching the game play itself for a while.

Of course there are also many party games involving a real-time deadline, such as https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/219215/werewords and https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/134352/two-rooms-and-a-b... .