"Make small games" is NOT just beginner advice. It is also one of the best commercial strategies for indie developers. Yes, small games are great for learning. You will learn a lot more by finishing 10 small games than by endlessly working on one giant project that never ships. Every finished game teaches you something. * Scoping * Design * Programming * Polish * Marketing * Steam pages * Trailers * Launches * Player feedback * Post-launch updates You don't really learn those things fully until you actually finish and release something, that's why I encourage you to take your projects to the finish line. BUT small games also help with success because they let you test more ideas. And ideas matter a LOT! A clever, marketable idea can make everything easier. A weak idea can make everything harder. If you only make one huge game, you are betting everything on one idea. But if you make several smaller games, you get several chances to find the idea that actually works. Some will fail. Some will do okay. Maybe one will hit. That is a much healthier path than spending years on one game while secretly hoping it becomes the next Stardew Valley. Those stories are inspiring, but they are also extremely rare. For every massive long-development success story, there are many developers who worked for years and launched to almost no attention. That is survivorship bias. So yes, make small games. Make them to learn faster. To release faster. To test ideas faster. To reduce risk. To avoid turning one failed launch into five years of pain. Small does NOT mean bad, small means focused. And focused games can be extremely powerful both for the developer while also being great for players since they have a ton more variety of games to play. - Code Monkey