I hesitated a while on buying this game, since I knew the Rance series to have some... unpleasant sex scenes, to say the least. Having just finished my first playthrough of the game, I can confirm that yes, most of the sex scenes are dubiously consensual AT BEST, and often feature our "hero" explicitly raping these poor women. Setting the copious amount of rape aside, the story and characters are mediocre. There are many characters, but all of them feel shallow (to be fair, a *lot* of the text in the game is in the sex scenes, which I spam clicked my way past after realizing they had zero appeal for me, so it's not totally impossible that I missed actual character development buried somewhere in the longwinded drivel about Rance's "hyper weapon" and "imperial juice", but somehow I doubt it). The strategic gameplay is cool at first, but gets tedious after a while. Without compelling characters or an interesting story, by the time I finished my first playthrough, I felt like there wasn't anything to do in the game besides grind for 100% completion (which takes multiple playthroughs). It's also a lot less freeform than the interactive map makes it look - for the most part, there's a clearly intended order in which you're supposed to fight people (and sometimes this is enforced mechanically - ie, you literally have no choice but to attack the Hara clan first). It might be worth it if you can get it on sale for at least 75%, or if you're the kind of person who actually *wants* to see the rapey sex scenes (please get help or something), but otherwise I wouldn't bother.
