I’m in the same boat, my happy place is definitely in that “a little of X and a lot of Y, but instead of A it’s got B” zone rather than the “It makes games like X!” zone.

But since somebody mentioned Burning Sands, my favorite favorite thing is BW Elves and Dwarves, which do Tolkien in exactly the way every other game doesn’t. Burning Sands is similar. So… Is that a second axis, or what? It’s definitely not a position on the Glorantha/sui generis weirdness<->broad genre emulation<->more specific setting/tone stuff<->“it does GoT” continuum.