User blog comment:Darkravenlord/Rance V VI Review/@comment-29190626-20170124020533/@comment-30776383-20170124182655

I'd say the Rance series is a VN, it's just that it has a lot of gameplay elements added to it, while most of it is told in Visual Novel Format.

Reminds me of how so many people were shocked to see that IX had way much more storytelling than actual gameplay...making it much  more VN styled.