Information games as a genre are so funny because you can ask someone for a list of great information games and people will start out with one made by the dev of Papers, Please and one made by the writer for two of the Silent Hill games as the two quintessential, influential ones, but much of the rest of the list is going to be—and I say this with love—nobodies, outsiders, and hobbyists.
Imagine if you asked someone what their favorite single player FPS games were and they told you they like Doom Eternal and Bioshock but their third pick is a grad student thesis project