Others - Completed - Sengoku Rance [v1.07] [AliceSoft]

This was the first Rance game I have ever played and dropped pretty early as well. It was so hard an unforgiving at first that I started playing this with guides to know what to do at which turn. It quickly turned into "The Stanley Parable" and I dropped the game.

Later I played other Rance games and I got to know the world and the characters better. When I returned to the game again I swore not to use guides. With more familiarity of the characters and how a Rance game usually operates I had a blast with this game. I rarely replay a game, especially a H game... I finished this game at least 10 times so far having almost all achievements. I even inserted mods just to make it different.

Sengoku Rance is not a game that you should start the Rance series with, it should be at least your 2nd or 3rd Rance game. This way you know why other characters don't like or even love Rance when they join the party.

Other than my previous yapping this game fulfills what I view what an H game should be. It should be like a normal game, but with broader tools. An E rated game may show that the hero and princess loves each other like holding hands and walk towards the sunset, but in an H game more powerful feelings can be shown like the hero serving 3 creampies in a row and the princess asking for more. Most games just put emphasis on the H part and neglect the others, but not with this game.

This game is built on previous stories, previous rich characters and introduces more rich characters as well whom may be important in later games. Heck even what has happened so far has influence on this game as where Rance can get reinforcements for example.

And not just all these points, but this game is replayable as well. Offers many other routes which play differently and plays out differently as you change your decisions how to play. It can be so random that I am not gonna lie I had to delete my saves twice, because I saved so much in this game. And IIRC the save limit is 9999 slots so figure out how much I have played this game.

This game slams so hard that I feel like Mr. Ono from Persona 3. When I play older Rance games and when Mr. Ono teaches Japanese history both of us have the same problem: "I don't care about this, lets get to the Sengoku era for gods sake!"

This is as close to a perfect game as one in this category can get. AliceSoft has developed good game after good game, but to me this is the best one by far. Strictly as an H game, it's not the best, but who is playing this for the H scenes anyway?

I rate it as Rance series game, not as a game among eroges. And as a part of series it SUCKS. Rance is depicted much dumber than he was through 1 to 6 parts, and he also is much weaker here. Devs also made Kentarou easier to level up than Rance himself, and by the endgame he becomes the MC, basically. No cool "Rance defeated the final boss", no, it was Kentarou with some meh-level help from us.

And THEN they have the audacity to humiliate Rance further by taking away Sill. That's wild how it's the least Rance-like game in the series, and people loved it - probably because he's treated as a joke here, not an actual villainous hero he was, who they wouldn't have liked to play as. Usually he's more like half-animal, half-human, with ability to think about stuff, but not here.

Rance gets into a trap after a trap, in the most dumb way possible, surviving mostly off luck. Even lost in combat against Kenshin, living simply because she randomly loved his looks... I appreciate that someone added "Netorare" tag to tag list, because yeah, i do feel cucked playing this after loving Rance as a character for so long. I also liked dark lords/demons, but Xavier is just such a garbage antagonist.

The game itself plays fine, of course, so even for me who doesn't like strategies it was okay to play, and compared to many other eroges it's an actual engaging gameplay with optionality, but it's still the most "normie"-friendly Rance of all the games in this series.

This game is definitely worth playing if you're into collecting waifus and conquering the world. Game can be rough if it's your first time playing because it doesn't have the best tutorial tbh. They don't explain stuff like stats, troop size and their damage modifiers etc. If you're curious you might wanna check wiki.
Other than that there are gonna be events which will trigger after a point and you'll be forced to certain routes and if you're not prepared, game will kick your ass. But you can still brute force by retrying the battle. My only tip is level up Rance. I made a mistake on my first try and dumped every stat boosts to girls.

H-scenes are hot and sometimes they're fucking hilarous. Every girl has a unique charm. There is also one girl who's infatuated with Rance, her scenes with Rance is too good. :>

Probably the best rance game in the series. It has an engaging gameplay loop and very memorable characters and story. Many different paths to choose.

The lewd images are kinda old now but still satisfying.

Came for the fap, stayed for the story. 5/5

This is simply the best Rance game they ever made...
... at least in my humble opinion.

The group battles with the Armies
The battles with the Party of Heroes
The Factions
The Strategie
The Items you can find
The differend Pathes you can choose
The game+ games

I love it

Fun game, i aint gonna lie. many character stories are just not interesting whatsoever, but the game itself is solid with plenty to do. so i approve. my taste in story is not reflective of the game itself.

TLDR: A grand adventure following a self serving protagonist on his quest to take any woman he can get.

In terms of scale of the story, for ero games it doesn't get grander than Rance. It has it's own hentai series, and is some what funny. But also very much an acquired taste. You either really like Rance as a protagonist, or not so much. He is self serving and doesn't care about other people. There is not even a hint of care. Sometimes it makes for funny situations which arguably the animated hentai captures better because of the voice actor.

But it's very harsh towards characters that are not Rance. It's either they get fucked or they get beat up. He has a slave named Sill, and the slave will try to help him and he'll just punch her because he doesn't like the result. This might tickle someone's funny bone, but it didn't tickle mine.

There was lots of story though, which is always great. I bet that if I had played the previous games, I'd be stoked to see some of the characters return in this iteration.

I think 4/5 is fair, it deserves a high rating because of the sheer amount of content. But it's flawed, it's just not a 5 star.

I played this game way back when. Besides being an H game with good scenes (even though rance is repetitive and basicaly r*pes evreyone), the gameplay is genuinely good and enganging. One of the best gameplays fror h games ever played.

Sengoku Rance and Fate/Stay are main games that got me into visual novels a long, long time ago. Sengoku Rance without the hentai is still better than most strategy/conquest games. Most of the sex scenes are some form of rape, for those that haven't played any Rance games.

5 Stars for the OG GOAT.
Scenes might not be as dynamic as modern games, but the effort put into creating a coherent story as well as providing genuinely engaging gameplay more than makes up for it. A must play for the genre.

This and Rance Quest are some of the most fun games I have ever played. Frankly some of the scenes are a bit unfappable but the gameplay is addicting and the characters are great. While I would recommend starting Rance from the beginning for the full experience, you can play this game standalone without needing to know anything.

The all-time classic. Adjust your squads, conquer Japan, fuck babes. With a bit of dungeon spelunking on the side. There is actually quite a lot of content with the alternative routes even though they can be a bit of a bitch to reach.

Oh, and the OST slaps like you would never believe. Your theme and the bad guy's theme? I genuinely listen to these tracks outside of playing the game.

1000/10 Characters, art (box drawn and pixel), music, gameplay. I've loved this game since the mid 2010s and now that I see it on this site I just wanted to show again how much I love it. Also its infinitely replayable because once you finish with all the routes and different choices available within those routes you can start modding the game like crazy.

Don't expect to fap much though because the sex scenes are usually more hilarious than sex.

Full cleared Dai Sengoku Rance (full game + mod dlc)

First Part (official game): 5/5
Dai / Mod : 2/5

This game is a good one even without lewdity. It may even suffer from having lewd things, making it unable to be a mainstream game.

The official game is difficult. Winning takes planning and sacrifices, intended to be an achievement in of itself. Luckily, each time you take over a territory, you usually get a sex scene (hopefully you enjoy comedy rape).
I *love* the music of the official game. Perfect in every way.

The second part, the mod... It's good, for being unofficial. There were a lot of unfinished side bits that made it disappointing to try to go deeper.
I really hated that there was no more rewards for conquests. You dont get sex scenes anymore in the Part 2 story. Very lame. The few times its mentioned that Rance has sex, that's it. Its said, not shown. Very lame.
Still, I enjoyed the story and I liked it for what it was.

If the second half of the story (the mod) was a stand alone, I wouldn't hold it in as high of esteem as the official portion.
Ona second run through I mostly enjoyed the official game with a specific route attempt. But the Dai (mod) was not interesting to replay. Too similar to the first.

The official (Part 1) is a hell of a staple. My only gripe is its too difficult to enjoy casually.

If you have not played this game, are not appalled by rape, and don't mind stupid comedy... and enjoy conquest turn based games... do it.
Also get the Dai Sengoku Rance, as the Part 2 adds a lot and has a bit of a different feel to it. You don't have to play Part 2, but its there if you enjoy the general gameplay and want more story.

I used Cheat Engine to alter values. Even so, Part 1 is very difficult. Honestly I quit the first time long ago because it was too damn hard. But with making Rance high level, max gold, and really high Nation Power, I found it fun to focus on the strategy over the grind.

Quick edit:
I forgot to mention: this is not a fap game. Even if you *love* the scenes, they're not long enough to stimulate for very long, and they're infrequent. They're more for enjoyment mentally, less for fap material.

version 1.07

H-scenes are 1/5. still pictures, lots of useless talking, sex description is boring. some translation issues. it's just not worth to play this if you wanna fap.

i usually only rate for porn scenes in porn games, so why did i still give it 4/5? well this game is an exception. it's actually a nice game underneath the nearly useless porn. just play this after you fapped lul. interesting/unique strategy game and tactical fighting game. they wrote a new engine for it.

my only problem with the game outside of the porn part which i usually just skip is that characters are really 1dimensional... it opens up some comedic scenes due to their shallowness, but it doesn't make up for the silliness of it all... the game doesn't take itself serious on multiple fronts, yet it's such an immersive game that imo they should have taken it a bit more serious and made a good game with not shallow characters. i think the devs didn't expect the game to turn out to be so good, so they just poured all their love into it and had some fun with it without much thought... so it's a decent lighthearted game. it's a bit similar to gintama in many sense. but they are not all that good on the comedic front. and even in gintama the characters are more complicated deep down aside from their shallow exterior. here it's shallow exterior and interior.

aside from that i have no idea why Rance is the secret ruler of that province. it made no sense. maybe if i played previous games i would know.

and there is no tutorial to know what all the stats mean. you have to test a lot of stuff to find out what works and how. (this kinda has its own appeal)

so due to characters and some situation breaking immersion it's not a masterpiece 5/5 game. if it had at least decent porn scenes i would easily give it 5/5. but you don't play this for the porn so i rate it as an actual game from steam, which is a decent game, you will have fun with it if you like strategy/tactical games. so 4/5 altogether.

May be nostalgia speaking a bit here, so I played it again recently, and while a bit more clunky by todays gaming standards the gameplay is still solid as it always was. With a multitude of paths to take and battle options to engage in, with the general goal of unifying Japan in sengoku jidai. The players interests may be diverted by cute characters or princesses, altering ones strategy for the unification.

For H games with gameplay, this one is one of the most fun to date. If you haven't tried it, give it a try, even if the content may not be your particular style.

Whatever the case, a memorable game from someone who played it when they were likely still too young.

My favorite video game. Period.

This game is so fucking good. The gameplay is so unique AND excellent. The replayability is insane, I have more than 200+ hours playing this game and I still don't got every events and character clears.

Don't even play this for the porn. I recommend this as a video game masterpiece. This is one of the best thing humanity ever made.

And now, we also have the Dai Sengoku Rance mod translated, which add a ton of new content if you crave for more.

11/10, best game on this website, maybe just the best game ever, unironically.

The best H game ever made by a very wide margin.

Gameplay, music, depth and overall polish are all well beyond most non-H games.

Huge number of scenes and from memory five major storylines with different heroines to follow. Minor characters number at least thirty of which most have scenes. In this universe if they are female and onscreen, they are almost always H-able.

Expect an initial play-through to take roughly twenty hours depending on which direction you expand (naturally new players will expand at random).
Easily 100+ hours of replayability, even following a detailed guide could take 50+, however I highly recommend figuring it out for yourself unless you are desperate for a particular side character.
The main heroines are railroaded enough that you are unlikely to miss any scenes.

I highly recommend cheat engine set to 2x to speed up unfortunately long animations that can't be turned off.

Must play if you somehow ended up on this site.
This has something for everybody.

Best game on this forum hands down.

A masterpiece.

It's not overcomplicated and it clicks quite soon how the battle works.

H scenes are good and there are a lot of them for every heroine

I'm basically leaving this review here because you gotta try this game at least once and it deserves the 5 stars