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BoomerKuwanger posted...

Indie games are pretty much entirely reliant on word of mouth unless they want to spend marketing money too. But there are hundreds to thousands of them released each year and most of them suck. They aren't a monolith, they can't all get word of mouth or marketing money en masse

Indeed. That said, there are countless youtube channels, streamers, and journalists that make an effort to find and highlight promising new/upcoming indie games. For all its faults, Steam's discovery queue is also pretty good for raising awareness of games you might otherwise have missed, plus things like Nintendo Directs often mention a bunch of indie games (though the eShop is exceptionally bad for aimlessly browsing and there's virtually zero chance you'll find anything worthwhile because of the glut of shovelware and minimal curation options). Some gems are still going to end up flying under the radar no matter what you do to try and find them, but so long as you put some effort in (and, for that matter, let social media algorithms figure out what kind of games you'd like to be shown), you'll find out about plenty of good indie games, no differently from how picking up a magazine or two each month helped you find out about interesting sub-AAA games.