The most solid concept for a visual novel I ever had was this: you play a human xenolinguist in the near future, it turns out the universe is teeming with various kinds of alien life but it's all gestalt intelligences like self-replicating nanite swarms or planet-spanning amorphous oozes or hive minds or whatever, and the history of every sentient species is basically one of being subverted and coopted by these gestalts and eventually either subsumed into them or devoured by them. Your job, and the plot, is to figure out which of them you want Earth to get consumed by
I know I sell it like horror but I am being completely genuine that I think there's romance in it, and in fact maybe it's the closest thing I get to conventionally romantic
I think the idea of a girl being so charmed by a forest of living crystals or an identity-devouring memetic virus or a sort of intelligent cordyceps that she helps it conquer her planet and snuff out her individuality to exist permanently as part of it is cute. I think there's a cute story there
This is so sick. One of the few ideas that someone else has come up with that I’d want to make into reality.
