Year of release: 1989
Date of release: 1989/10/??
Genre: VN, Adventure, TRPG, SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 256 HDD 2Gb

Description: The story is pretty simple - Hikari ("Light"), the red haired girl that you see in an opening clip, has been kidnapped. And Rance get the mission from his boss (the bald guy) to investigate the case.

Rance is something like a detective in this story. This also turns the whole game more into a detective-like exploring than into rpg or more less rpg/strategy to which the gamers of the latter games of the series are used to. Rance isn’t alone in his job as he has a helper - 16 year old Sill. She's actually Rance's slave. She was from a rich family but later got kidnapped by some bandit and then auctioned as a slave. The one who bought her was of course Rance.

Now with her help you (Rance) have to solve this mystery, bring Hikari back and pay back to the ones at fault.

Year of release: 2009
Date of release: 2009/12/18
Genre: VN, Adventure, TRPG, SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 256 HDD 2Gb

Description: Ten years ago in the town of Custom, four young girls were appointed as disciples to old mage Ragithis. They were to be raised as mages and then to work as town's guardians. But after the ten years of training due to unknown reason girls rebelled against Ragithis and killed him. During the harsh magic battle a whole town were entombed in the underground and a barrier spell was put on town preventing everyone from going out.

This is when Rance appears with Sill on his side, and taking a job of defeating magician maidens and saving the town. But after some research he finds out that actual evil guy was Ragithis himself, who put four magical rings on four maidens. That rings are giving a great boost of magical power to it's bearers, but also able to steal magic power from virgin sorceresses and after collecting magic power of 40 maidens anyone could use these rings to obtain unlimited power. The leader of girls, Masou Shizuka, figured out Ragithis's plan and rebelled against him but it was too late - cursed rings could not be removed and the curse started to dive maidens crazy. Now they are sheltered in the labirinth beneath the town abducting young girls from the town and killing everyone who tried to go into the labirinth and stop them. It seems that the only way to release them from the curse of the rings is to steal a virginity from them, and the only man up to this job is Rance.

Year of release: 1991
Date of release: 1991/10/??
Genre: VN, Adventure, TRPG, SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 128 HDD 10 mb

Description: Rance is asked to help stop an invading force aided by demons from taking over the kingdom of Leazas.

Year of release: 1993
Date of release: 1993/12/11
Genre: VN, Adventure, TRPG, SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 128 HDD 10 mb

Description: After the events of Rance 3, Rance and Sill find themselves on the floating island of Ylapu were they find themselves swept into a race to stop the awakening of an ancient super weapon from lost times.

Year of release: 1995
Date of release: 1995/11/??
Genre: VN, Adventure, TRPG, SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 128 HDD 10 mb

Description: This is a side-story in Rance series, released shortly after the fourth game, but dedicated to an entirely different quest. All kinds of troubles are happening to a factory where a new Happiness Medicine is being developed. The mercenary Rance is hired by the manager to investigate the source of these troubles. First task: clear the factory of the monsters...

This is a RPG with turn-based combat and strong adventure elements (menu with command verbs such as "Examine", "Talk", etc., at every given screen). Unlike the previous Rance games, the battles do not allow free movement on the screen, and are carried out in a more traditional Japanese-style way. There is no physical movement in the game; hostile areas (dungeons) are also explored by choosing menu commands. As in all other Rance games, there are explicit sex scenes in this game.

Instruction on start of Rance 4.1

Year of release: 1995
Date of release: 1995/11/??
Genre: VN, Adventure, TRPG, SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 128 HDD 10 mb

Description: Rance 4.2: Angel-gumi is the second part of the story that began in Rance 4.1: O-Kusuri Koujou o Sukue! rather than an all-new Rance adventure. The hero continues to investigate the weird occurrences connected to the Happiness Medicine Factory. Since the story picks up directly where it ended in the sequel, Rance begins his adventure already commanding an all-female squad called the Angel Team.

Nothing has changed gameplay-wise; as before, interaction with the game world is done through menu commands everywhere, including dungeons. The combat system has also remained exactly the same as in predecessor.

Instruction on start of Rance 4.2

Year of release: 1996
Date of release: 1996/12/19
Genre: Conquest SLG, Comedy
Censorship: Is in game (games) of distribution

Developer/publisher: Alice Soft
Platform: PC/Windows
Edition type: Informal
Tablet: It isn't required

Game language: English
Interface language: English
Postscoring language: No

System requirements: Pentium 500 RAM 128 HDD 163 mb

Description: 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.

The prelude starts with Rance leading a band of bandits in rural Helman Empire. The Imperial Patrol crushed his band with overwhelming force, and captured his slave, Sill. Rance fled to the borders of Leazas where he was rescued by Kanami, personal ninja of Lia, queen of Leazas.

Eager to take revenge upon Helman and rescue his slave Sill, Rance agreed to marry Lia. As the new king of of Leazas, Rance set his first step on a path that eventually leads to world domination, or death.