

The Imperial Patrol crushed his band with overwhelming force, and captured his slave, Sill. The prelude starts with Rance leading a band of bandits in rural Helman Empire. This game is not part of the official Rance universe timeline, forking off after the events of Rance 4.2, as a “What if” episode. Apart from turn-based strategy gameplay, it’s got the trademark Rance high amounts of rape and lots of heroines (come to think of it, this tends to be a thing in most SRPG VNs.) While rape scenes with the protagonist, Rance, have some comedy potential (because Rance has a rather unique personality), there are also quite a lot of depressing and brutal ones (anything not starring Rance) so beware. Kichikuou Rance is the seventh game in Alicesoft’s Rance series. The Japanese version (1996) was eventually re-released as freeware in 2008 the English version is a self-contained package, not a patch. Arunaru of Arunaru’s Translations has released an English-translated copy of Kichikuou Rance.

Still, backlogs are backlogs, and it’s not quite old enough to give up on just yet. So yeah, this is actually news from 13 September.
