Your fault for looking only at boring AAA games from greedy scumbag publishers dring smaller sales. Check out dem indies tho during a big Steam sale like December, you wont regret it.
A lot of the games I purchase are indie games from smaller developers. But the indie games in the categories that I like are usually few and far between. I like zombie, post-apocalyptic. We haven't had many of those lately that I can find that are of high quality. I just tried surroundead, But the game is pretty meager has like 5 hours worth of content. 7 days to die is one of my favorite smaller games but infrequently updated. Just wish we got a few more apocalyptic or zombie indie games but a lot of them are just scammers who copy templates out of unreal or unity and put it on the market.