I guess I'll just mention that one reason I'm asking is that making exactly what I wanna make hasn't been getting me where I want to be so far, [...]
The main reason for this is that you want to end somewhere.
[Note: I haven't played your games, so don't take what follow as a criticism. It's a general opinion and probably not everything apply to your personal case]
When you are an indie game creator, and in fact when you are an indie whatever, you shouldn't have another goal than taking pleasure at what you are doing.
Just for Patreon, right now there's 5,626 adult game creators. Among them, there's necessarily some who are professional developers, professional game designers, professional writers, professional artists, and also must not be forgot professional sex advisor. It's exceptional to find a game that will reunite them all, but every game that will have at least one of them will be better than your games on this domain.
This mean that the only way to go, the only way to do something that will stand out enough to be noticed, is to do it with pleasure. Even really lame games can find their public thanks to this, because there's people sharing your kind of personality, and they will be attracted by this pleasure you have, and that they can feel in your game.
I have names, but I'm not here to shame games and authors so I'll not write them. But globally, whatever the game thread you're looking at, the older they are, the more you'll find positive comments praising the author for his genius mind, even when yourself believe that the said author can't be more than 16yo.
Making something as indie creator must be a passion and, more difficult to achieve, should stay one. It's how you succeeded ; with "succeeding" meaning here "earn enough monthly to buy a beer or two".
Because it's the second issue, the more there's people, the bigger is the difference between the few successful and all the others. The guys behind
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earn more than $100,000/month by example, while
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, 18 in number of patrons only make $7,597/month. And
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, 82 in number of patrons is the first one below the $2,000/month.
The issue isn't just in the number of people supporting you, because there's creators earning more with fewer patrons. No, it's more in the fact that the pool of supporters and their wallet aren't extensible to the infinite. Among the more than 5,000 creators on Patreon, only 190 have more than 1,000 patrons.
This mean that, to have a share of the cake, you have to play on the only thing you can provide for sure, the passion and pleasure you take while making your game. And this is not compatible with any other goal that you can have.
This being said, you've two games here so far.
One 0.1 version, that haven't be updated since January, and have less than one page of comments with 0 rating. And a
completed game that in less than one week have seven pages and twelve, relatively negative, rating. As poor as can be the rating (1.5), you've two 4 stars, one of them being the
most complete and detailed review I ever seen on this site.
This will not pay your bill of course, and as I said the rating is relatively low, but it's already a big step forward compared to your first attempt. And when you think about the review I talked about above, it's the illustration of what I said about the pleasure and passion. No one would take the time to write such review just for his own pleasure. You're doing it when you felt something coming from the game and feel that the author will care about your opinion as much as he cared about his game.
The successful creators give a wrong idea regarding what one can expect from the players. And here again doing it by passion and with pleasure is important. It's what make you not abandon when you discover that the reality isn't "I'll make a game a drown in money and praises".
At first, and "at first" can last long for some, you'll not even earn enough to pay you electricity bill ; therefore to payback your expenses. So you need another motive to keep doing it.
As for the main point of your thread, your poll, well, the others said everything I had to say so I'll not talk about it.
Edit: Typos... Oh my god... who stole my already poor English skills during the night ?
Say, the MC has a poor health plan and gets penis cancer, so the LIs try to remove it in stages through DIY surgery. Surely counts as CBT? Then they put a chastity cage on him to protect his stitches from those elven floozies that would want to jump on him. 
