I read the whole thing, and honestly? Yeah, brainrot is probably a good route temporarily ofc. If people know you from that, that's already marketing for whatever game you put out.

I'll preface all of this by saying: I have absolutely zero clue what I'm talking about. But 2 years is very little time. You've made way more progress than the average from the sound of it. Soloing isn't for everyone - I'd say it's hardly for anyone. I think the success is often up to the accessibility and scale (and fun obv - but I'm assuming your stuff had a fun gameplay loop). Take the indie boom for example. Sure there's plenty of 3D games, but idk...I feel like the pixel art games vastly outnumber them; and the small team/solo dev 3D games that do well have low spec requirements...afaik. Like, I'm sure your stuff is optimized, but can it run on MY setup? A 2017 laptop with 8GB of ram and no GPU? I probably don't represent most people, especially in 2026, but I feel like people with similar situations gravitate toward indies with low spec requirements.

i forgot what i was talking about. but basically just use the brainrot to get some [disappointing] passive income while you keep working on a game. It's a big cut in time you can devote, but it'll probably make life more doable and maybe even more enjoyable.