Indie Gaming

Only gaming news I read regularly is gamingonlinux.com and Bside@fedia.io (plus whatever pops up on All and is interesting, which is how I found this post). Based on a recent article about the then ongoing Steam Next Fest, I installed a bunch of demos, haven't played most of them yet because one was so good I played the hell out of it and bought the game a couple of days after Next Fest (impeccable timing for that release). Though as a reasonably well-executed Disco Elysium-like, it kinda markets itself, or at least easier than the type of game you describe in your post. My guess would be that there's not a lot of overlap between people who spend time on reading about and playing niche games and people who have children ...