As you've already found out, making the game small is a massive help. I've recently moved away from bigger games, and onto smaller projects. Let's say you make

As you've already found out, making the game small is a massive help. I've recently moved away from bigger games, and onto smaller projects. Let's say you make a mid-size game, it's still an indie project, but it's about a 4 gig download. Now you're talking about a 10 to 20 minute download, plus getting it to run locally. I've been having a lot of fun with Godot recently, it looks like it's much easier to make smaller projects with it versus Unity.