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Agree to disagree, I suppose, but for the person whose only game every year is Assassin's Creed, I don't think you're going to convince them that they should play Silksong or Expedition 33 and that they'd prefer them if only they knew about them. Even if the games aren't multiplayer, it's often a common touchstone for a group of friends to talk about and bond over. You or I might rail about handholding in one game that the mass market plays, but that handholding is a large part of why those games are mass market. The indie stuff we find more appealing are often answering a need, for a much smaller base of potentially interested people, who are sick of the mass market stuff, because we play more games in general.
As for a solution for your personal problem finding indie games, I know it's one that Second Wind has been putting effort into addressing. This may sound odd, but in multiple cases, I've found niche games to scratch a certain itch I've had just by going to the Steam search and filtering by tags, and at least that cut down the research time dramatically. I understand the frustration though, because I'm having a similar hard time finding out if a game is built to last with things like offline multiplayer, and it's something that reviewers often don't care enough to mention at all.
How did they settle on AC? Is that the only game that would ever appeal to them, or did one of their friends introduce them and they got hooked? How many of them played Balatro or Among Us and other "viral" games?
The way to market to these people is to get that one person in a friend group to try something new and sell their friends on it. I used to only play a handful of games too, and back then it was mostly StarCraft and Halo. Then a friend introduced me to FTL, Factorio, and Minecraft (back when the last two launched, not what they are today), and I fell in love with indie games. All it takes sometimes is a single experience to show people what they're missing.
I took a quick look, and it seems to be a mixed bag of content, from first time experiences with games to meta discussions on what makes parts of games great and interesting. Looking at last dozen or so videos, it's mostly bigger games like Borderlands, Hollow Knight, and Subnautica. If you play any indie games, you'll hear about those (and Borderlands isn't even indie).
I think what I'm looking for is something that goes over the top new games from the last month or something, with deeper dives between those videos.
I've done the same, and it's way more miss than hit. When I finally find a hit, it's usually a few years old, and is going for a fraction of the launch price.
For any given game, I can usually find a decent review by some random fan on YouTube, but going the other direction is a lot harder.
How did you lose interest in Assassin's Creed? Maybe you didn't, but I did. Call of Duty, too. Part of the reason why is why those people still come back to it, like sanding off rough edges that were maybe desirable to us. The top dog franchises will change from time to time, but I don't think you'll be able to will that change into existence with a recommendation. The Game Awards do have a tangible effect on sales and can make that change, but only up to a few games per year, at most.
It's a fairly recent effort from Second Wind, with similar gripes as to what you mentioned, which is why I brought it up. This is specifically the show that they do that I was thinking of, seemingly twice per month, and there's also Yahtzee Tries.