Ah really I don't want to get into this discussion.

Not this discussion again.

My bad, I really only tried to be helpful.

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Sengoku Rance could have been one of the best games ever - if they had just made Rance less of an evil jerk ^^

One of the mistakes people make when playing some of the Rance games is taking Rance itself seriously, if do then you’re going to have a hard time and you’ll probably get offended by his antics most of the time if not all the time hahahah!

Rance itself is a parody of Adol Christin in the YS series, just take a look on their character designs and you’ll notice the subtle difference…

The Rance Series is pretty old dating back as far as from 1989, during those old days where good natured hero type protagonists are pretty prevalent and common in most RPG games. A certain company namely Alicesoft decided to do just the total opposite of that and we got Rance as a result, a selfish, arrogant, perverted, egotistical jerk with a heart of gold. Despite his foul attitude he does have basic moral standards like not raping lolis or childlike characters if that’s hard to believe! Everything else is fair game hahahha!

And yes, I agree with you that Sengoku Rance is of one of the best anime esque Grand Strategy SRPGs out there, although Venusblood Hollow is much more hardcore and diverse in nature.

Anyways many thanks to GOG and Mangagamer for hearing our wishes and bringing the Rance Series here!

But but.......that is the fun part about it........

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I don't mind so much, but I *really* would like to recommend the game to others ^^ Just because the strategy/RPG part is really well done.

And when it's a girl, I can't. Same with friends I'm less familiar with.

Well that animation is nice at least.

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The qualifier is telling. Specifying that category that Rance does NOT rape implies that he does rape others. Any amount of rapes committed does not meet my personal minimum for "basic moral standards", so that's an automatic no-purchase for me.

That's kinda the problem with a lot of these porn games. You don't really have any idea what the nature of the content is, and I imagine many people are wary of buying them blind. The store page doesn't usually have enough information, nor are there any posts in many of the community forums for those game. Perhaps a general discussion thread for games with Adult-only sexual content, which specifies the nature of the content would be helpful.

I agree with having content-specific tags, but everyone *tangentially* interested in the series knows what Rance is about (or at least Sengoku, since that's the most mainstream title)
And again, the porn is not supposed to be taken seriously, it's something akin to black comedy. You can find it unpleasant and gross of course, not everyone is into the more crude stuff, but that's on you

Yes.

Store page:

There are sometimes reviews on the GoG store pages which sometimes mention the nature of the content. I'm not invested quite enough to spend a great amount of time trying to find the original name and searching to find reviews on some other site. At that point you might as well skip the whole game aspect and go straight to searching for such material directly.

I'm not sure why that line of discussion would be forbidden by GoG. There are reviews up on some of the GoG store pages which discussing the content of the games. You just can't consistently find that for all the games.

They're e-mailing promos for these types of games in their regular sale announcements, and posting the same on their front page, without even having a "don't show me adult-only sexual content" checkbox for users to select. If soccer moms were a concern, you'd think they'd do that at least.

There's also the "Games which would make good porn titles" thread which has existed since 2015. If that one is okay, I think a thread to discuss the nature of the content of specific games would be welcomed. It could possibly increase the sales of some of those games.


One would think that bringing those games to GoG is intended to reach a new customer base, including those users who were not even tangentially invested in the series before. Saying "if you already know about this game you know about the content" isn't helpful to those who actually don't know about the game.

Well like I said, I'm all for it. But with the discussions going after the first few releases, especially of Kagura Games, GoG might be loathe to have a platform for this discussion.
It did draw all kinds of people not even slightly interested in the games, just to complain and virtue signal.
It's gotten a lot better so maybe it can be done in a sane way now.