The popular and trending games tend to feel generic and samey to me, I want a way to search for weird and obscure potential gems.
You can sort Steam games chronologically, which will show you an unfiltered list of new games by release date. To do this, go to "New & Noteworthy" at the Store page header, click "New Releases" from the submenu, then scroll down.
Switch the games listing from "Popular New Releases" to just "New Releases." This will show you a list of the most recently released games on Steam.
If you want to see a full, page-based list of all the releases on Steam, click the button "All New Releases." The results here can easily be narrowed by genre, release type (e.g. excluding Sountracks and Demos), language, price, and other factors. Bear in mind Steam will still exclude Adult games if you've set Steam to do so (which I believe may be the default). Other filters for mature content will also be applied if you've set them up to. Steam will tell you at the top of the page if it's doing this.
If you do want a more curated experience (but don't want an opaque algorithm filtering things out), you can always change the sort method at the top right. There are other ways to get to this menu (it's the same one Steam uses for user searches!), and other cool ways to find games, but this is one that works if you genuinely want to see everything with no algorithm deciding on your behalf what you want to see. Asset flips are actually not too common these days because they're not financially viable on Steam any more (because new releases need to "earn" featuring from Steam and because of the refund policy), but you will still find a lot of mobile ports if you do this.