Man i feel you. Its really hard to do something that you want if you dont really get support for it. Its slightly demotivating especially if you work on it a lot. Making games is really hard (and from what ive heard online games. They sound painful) but yeah. at some point people might notice this more and more... Not sure how advertising works and all but i tend to make posts about my game on reddit and where ever theres a promotion channel on discord servers. It doesnt work well but it is something.
As of the tokens to real money part i would honestly advise not to do it since it would be really hard on your wallet. People can always find a way to cheat lol. Its amazing.
Good luck on development. Make sure to take breaks when needed and not to over work yourself.
I also found that minotours seem to give food. Though they dont give a lot of hunger lol. Also also how does the quest system work? Ive seen the only quest be a B ranked one and its a minotour one