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Rance - Hikari o Motomete -

ランス -光をもとめて-

Titles
ランス -光をもとめて-
Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
Rance: Quest for Hikari
Rance: En búsqueda de Hikari
AliasesRance 1
Play timeShort (3h30m from 35 votes)
DeveloperAlice Soft
PublishersAlice Soft
Rance Translation Project & 2.0 Translations & RottenBlock & Alpharobo & BabaJeanmel
Keshi Mengxiang & Kalar Baohu Xiehui
Ononoki
Relations
Alternative version

Rance 01 - Hikari o Motomete -

Shares characters

Little Princess

Little Vampire

Daiteikoku

Sequel

Rance II - Hangyaku no Shoujo-tachi -

Same setting

Toushin Toshi

LinksWikipedia (ja), Wikidata, MobyGames, GameFAQs, GameFAQs, GameFAQs, VGMdb, HowLongToBeat, IGDB, Lutris, VNStat
Related anime[DB-ANN] Rance (OVA, 1993)

Description

The story is pretty simple - Hikari ("Light"), the red haired girl that you see in an opening clip, has been kidnapped. And Rance gets 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.

[Taken from the AliceSoft Wikia]

Antihero Protagonist 3.0 Promiscuous Protagonist 3.0 Protagonist with Sexual Experience 3.0 Single Ending 3.0 Fighting Protagonist 2.9 Male Protagonist 2.9 Map Movement 2.9 Unavoidable Rape 2.9 Rapist Protagonist 2.8 Short Sexual Scenes 2.8 Sword Wielding Protagonist 2.8 Linear Plot 2.8 RPG 2.8 Nympho Protagonist 2.8 Mercenary Protagonist 2.8 Playboy Protagonist 2.8 Past Setting in a Fictional World 2.7 ADV 2.6 Arrogant Protagonist 2.6 Fictional Beings 2.5 Medieval Fantasy 2.5 Protagonist with a Face 2.5 Rape 2.5 Spontaneous Sex Scenes 2.5 Comedy Rape 2.5 Mage Heroine 2.4 Interactive Adventure Game 2.4 High Sexual Content 2.3 Magic 2.2 Princess Heroine 2.2 Defloration 2.0 Early Sexual Content 2.0 Heroine with Sexual Experience 2.0 Missionary Position 2.0 Monsters 2.0 No Auto Function 2.0 No Event CGs 2.0 No Gallery 2.0 No Quick Save/Load 2.0 No Romance Plot 2.0 Only Good EndingsS 2.0 Pixel Art 2.0 Sadist Protagonist 2.0 Standing Sex 2.0 Timid Heroine 2.0 Game Over 1.9 Detective Work 1.8 Lesbian HeroineS 1.6 Shy Heroine 1.6 Bisexual Heroine 1.6 Breaking the Fourth Wall 1.5 BDSM 1.5 Bondage 1.5 Castle 1.5 Comedy 1.5 Impulsive Protagonist 1.5 KidnappingS 1.5 Slave Heroine 1.5 Vaginal Fingering 1.5 Fighting Heroine 1.4 Kunoichi Heroine 1.4 Maid Heroine 1.2 Clothed Male Naked Female 1.0 Doggy Style 1.0 Female Domination 1.0 Ghost 1.0 Sex in Public Places 1.0 Sexual Scenes with Gameplay 1.0 Sexual Slavery (Choukyou Variation) 1.0 Sexual Slavery (Non-consensual) 1.0 Wooden Horse 1.0 DisappearanceS 0.7 Fantasy 0.7 Sexual Content 0.7 Sexual Devices 0.3 Violence 0.3

Releases

Japanese (14)
1989-07-1518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete - 3.5-inch Edition
1989-07-1518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete - 5-inch Edition
1989-08-1518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
1989-09-1518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
1989-11-1518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
1990-03-1518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
1997-12-1818+Alice no Yakata 456
2004-08-2718+Rance 1 - Digest Edition
2008-06-0518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
2008-06-0518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
2008-06-0518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
2008-06-0518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
2008-06-0518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
2008-06-0518+Rance - Hikari o Motomete -
English (5)
2011-01-2118+Rance: Quest for Hikari (unofficial)
2013-08-2018+Rance 1 - Digest Edition (unofficial patch)
2018-08-2518+Rance I Rebuilt (unofficial patch)
2021-10-0818+Rance I Rebuilt PC-88 Style (unofficial patch)
2023-10-2818+Rance: Quest for Hikari (unofficial patch)
Chinese (simplified) (2)
2021-06-2818+Nüjing-xiaojie VX (unofficial)
2021-10-1818+Rance 1 - Digest Edition (unofficial)
Spanish (1)
2022-02-0118+Rance: En búsqueda de Hikari (unofficial)

Staff

Full character list

Character summary

RanceProtagonist
Sill PlainMain character
Lia Parapara LeazasMain character
Jericho ColonSide character
Willis FujisakiSide character
Keith GoldSide character
Maris AmaryllisSide character
Menad ShiseiSide character
Yulang MirageSide character
Horikawa NamiSide character
Koushuuin HazukiSide character
Kentou KanamiSide character

User stats

Vote stats
957 votes (rank 274)
5.52 average (rank 15590)
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