Coming from a nobody like me who's wholeheartedly tried, making a game is a massive undertaking . A great game, even more so. Getting anyone to play it, much more an achievement. It sucks that this is the way it turns out for almost all developers, you just don't hear about it.
The first game made by Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds' studio now has fewer than 100 players on Steam
Last Flag reached a peak of just 558 Steam players the day after launch