I would like somebody that can hug me and tell me, “Everything is going to be okay.”
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I want a genki girl where she is just a cheerful innocent girl with an optimism mind, i think the perfect example for this is Amber from Genshin Impact. While there’s a lot of RO with cheerful trait, they’re mostly just being annoying or it’s just “it’s actually her mask to hide her true self” or they flat out not interesting enough romantically.
Beside that i think i want a straightforward and gallant RO, it’s just my preference because i like creating a weak ass (physically) and shy MC (if there’s and option for it tho) to achieve these damsel-in-distress troupe but the MC being the damsel instead.
If it’s an nsfw book, a powerful villainess RO is interesting too since most of the time it’s a villain instead or it’s just a one nightstand with a crazy chick. Also you don’t need to join her scheme immediately to start her romance too, i don’t mind the mc being corrupted, it just feels weird to happen so quickly it makes you looks like a simp
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On the first part of your post.
I think that there are enough of that type in many games without the trauma already.
Can you make a yandere love interests
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Building on what @Kainen said, I would like more protective and, yes, gallant female LIs(whether gender-selectable or gender-locked) who aren’t shy about showing their love for the MC. I also second the wish of other commenters for more ROs who can take the initiative in the romance.
It would also be cool with more female ROs who are older and more experienced than the MC and who are confident in their experience.
It would also be cool for more COGs and HGs where some or all of the ROs are gender-locked, at least in those COGs and HGs where the MC and all the ROs functions as one big group or the MCs for other reason will interact a lot with all of the ROs to put as much effort into making them work as NPCs as on making them work as ROs. Something that makes those ROs who are the wrong gender for me or other mono-sexuals to be interested in work as friends and makes us care about them as friends and/or make them interesting enough and preferably also quite varied. There’s of course no getting around that a major part of making ROs/LIs is that they are attractive to readers/players, but they are also usually the de facto most important NPCs in the story as well. And if the writer can make each RO work as a NPC also for readers who don’t find the romances in question attractive, it would also make a COG or HG more fun for everyone. I certainly would like my male MCs to have the opportunity to get more good bromances with male NPCs, at least as long as those bromances don’t get in the way of interesting potential romances with other LIs
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I adore when characters have separate relationships with each other as friends, or when the PC can have a friendship with someone if they don’t romance them.
I have been considering the idea of a pair of romanceable characters who aren’t in a romantic relationship but who have a close connection in some way (perhaps magically, perhaps as relatives or close friends). They could be romanced separately, not polyamorously, but the other one remains an important part of the life of the one you romance.
It came about from me musing to myself about how people feel about romancing characters in an existing couple… I probably wouldn’t be all that interested in writing that (though never say never), but I do like the idea of writing romanceable characters with a pre-existing non romantic connection to someone outside of the PC.
I guess I like the idea of it not being family members most, because then there’s the idea that theoretically they could be romantic, but they’re not for whatever reason.
I don’t know if this is a dynamic that exists in a game that already exists but I would enjoy it and would likely enjoy writing it too, I think.
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I would LOVE to be able to have a romance and separate friendship or couples friendship in a game. The options always seem to fall to either romance only or friendship only, and there’s never any room made for both. I think it may be because there are so few slice of life stories or authors that do both the slice of life and the more genre-specific stories. If you have a huge space-opera type conflict going on, there may just be no room for it, but the smaller stories with smaller problems…I don’t see why it can’t be done. (Although, I haven’t tried to write a playable story with all the branching paths it would involve, so there may be very good reasons why it isn’t done.)
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Non-romantic friendships are a good compromise. The complexity may be huge, but this whole aspect is complicated anyway. Play the entire range, both for the people and the romance level. I like good characterization first of all. Secondly, I like that there is an option to cater for different levels of romance, each more profound than the last. From normal friendships to “forever together”. And a balanced relationship.
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I want more toxic and exciting romance.
Yandere or villainous characters?
More suspenseful elements would be nice.
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Despite preferring less “angsty” ROs and wanting the option for my MC to get into a relationship before the end of a game, I’d honestly like to see a yandere game in this format. Like, not in the form of Jun/ko (blech), but more like a Boyfriend to the Death setting, or even the type of yanderes written by Ataraxic Games. It’d be fun.
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Honestly, I would like to have some romances where the focus is on working through the relationship rather then the relationship itself being the end goal. I love romance in games, but it is kind of exhausting how it always feels like a fight for the right to be ‘partners’ but then you never actually get to work through the whole ‘being partners’ part.
I mentioned it in another thread, but I would love to just have more games where there is a focus on the experience of being in a relationship, rather then only focusing on the angst and difficulty of getting together to begin with. [Me just paraphrasing but more clearly I guess.]
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Can I recommend our lord and savior, Finch from Study in Steampunk. Its not super romance focused but you can become official very early on and it addresses the difficulties of being coworkers in a high stress occupation while also being married as well as what happens if people begin to prioritize other things (work, religion, addiction, etc) over the relationship.
It is male MC, male Finch gender locked, which might be a dealbreaker for some.
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Study in Steampunk is a delight across the board. I’d also recommend, well, most of the games whose romances I enjoyed a lot - Asteroid Run, Heart of Battle, Tally Ho, Professor of Magical Studies, Siege of Treboulain (this one has perhaps not as much time being in the romance but you can get some great power-couple scenes), Heart of the House, Stronghold (this one in particular has substantial time together after committing to each other), The Eagle’s Heir (Alexandre at least), Blood Moon (one of them is only romanceable at the end but you get to know him through the game and the others are able to start early), Their Majesties’ Pleasure, and I’m sure there are more I’ve enjoyed but am forgetting right now and that I haven’t played yet. In all of those you get a very decent amount of time of overtly being-in-a-romance time; not always at full commitment/marriage level, but certainly not pining without mutual emotional interactions.
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There’s romance in Tally Ho? I must have missed it somehow… or maybe I forgot. I only played it once, but don’t think my MC had a romance in there at all.
I second Blood Moon and Their Majesties’ Pleasure. Those had good romance. I may have to take a look at some of the others you suggested, but I’m out for Study in Steampunk, due to the male MC.
And the Steampunk, in my case. We hates it, Precious.
Yes! You can romance Rory, Frankincense, Haze, or Valentine. Rory and Haze are delightful, I’m sure the others are too. You can start the Rory romance early on.
Re Study in Steampunk: locked to male and steampunk are both hard sells to me, but it managed to do it anyway and became a fast favourite 
but obviously those elements won’t be for everyone!
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I just want adults, established adults. I am so tired of teenagers in high school and barely 20s in college.
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One of the few times I agree with the reddit 
By this I mean fully serious evil romance options where you are not a helpless victim but a partner in horrible crime
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Grumpy, bratty, tsundere RO. Sorta like Scaramouche from Genshin Impact. I would kill for him 
Don’t know the reference, but I’d totally go for Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney.
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