I don’t know who came up with the idea to mash Makima, Zelda, and Tsunade into the same world, but whoever it was probably spilled beer on their keyboard halfway through writing the script - and that’s what makes *D20 Magic Dice* feel alive. It’s messy, horny, strangely sentimental at times, like watching late-night anime reruns after a breakup. You’re talking to this dice thing (yeah, an actual dice), and before you even realize it, it’s making your thoughts real. Not just the good ones. I rolled a 3 once and ended up in some half-lit tavern where Widowmaker was arm wrestling Rumi for no reason while Zelda flirted with the bartender. I think I lost track of the main plot two minutes in, but it didn’t matter. The game doesn’t care either, it just keeps throwing beautiful chaos in your lap, all soft skin and heavy breathing mixed with dumb jokes about mana points.

What I liked most is how it doesn’t pretend to be clever. The dialogue’s sometimes broken, and the pacing jumps like old VHS tape - one second you’re teasing Ada Wong, next second Tsunade’s lecturing you about responsibility while sitting on your lap. There’s some strange comfort in that inconsistency. I did wish there were more sound options though; moans hit too loud compared to everything else, made me lower volume quick before neighbors got curious. And yet, when Makima whispers in that weirdly calm tone, you kinda forgive every bug. Maybe nostalgia blinds me - I grew up on janky flash hentai crossovers, and this feels like one resurrected from 2009. The dice mechanic almost feels secondary to the conversations, which twist between sincere and absurd so fast it makes you laugh mid-erection.

Sometimes I forget which universe I’m even in - Naruto? Overwatch? Who cares. The worlds blur, the clothes vanish, and someone says something about destiny while you’re trying not to roll another damn six. Three words? Chaotic, filthy, affectionate. Dare to play it alone, or invite company?

Game hits you with that cheap jump scare first, like some old YouTube screamer, then suddenly you are just in this tiny bedroom with a catgirl kneeling on your mattress, tail flicking, hoodie half open, like she respawned out of your search history. She talks way too casual for something that was licking your cheek a second ago, and her robot buddy on the desk keeps beeping horny little comments, like ChatGPT but if it was allowed to be a total perv. The vibe is weirdly cozy and fucked up at the same time: lights low, messy floor, VR headset tossed in the corner, browser on incognito, and this girl with ears and a collar explaining that you “kinda accidentally” asked for her during a lucid dream. Then your tanned childhood friend just barges in, sweaty from practice, sports bra under that loose shirt, thighs looking like she can snap your neck, and the game instantly goes from awkward hentai scenario to full “oh no I have to actually choose between them” chaos. Except it does not let you stay pure for long, because the sandbox part kicks in fast.

What sold me is how the lewd stuff slowly crawls from goofy to really filthy. At first it is innocent groping “for data”, the robot telling her to test your stamina, her sitting on your lap casually while pretending it is a “science experiment”, your dark skinned wrestler buddy teasing you by pinning your arms and grinding down “like training mount control”. Ten minutes later you are in this bizarre three way exhibition setup where the robot projects your porn search stats on the wall while catgirl milks you with her tits, long slow titfuck while she purrs and leaks a bit of milk herself if you pushed her down the lactation path earlier. Yes, they actually track that with little stat sliders tucked in your phone menu, same place you manage pregnancy risks and suppression pills, which is so on the nose it becomes funny. You start checking fertility charts with the same seriousness I normally keep for Google Analytics, except here the KPIs are “days until catgirl goes into heat” and “chance that the wrestler gets creampied after shower scene”.

Game keeps mixing cute and messed up like that. One route I picked had the tan friend challenge you to a “submission match” on the living room floor, loser has to obey for the night. I tried to play fair, ended up with my face in her armpit and my hands tied behind my back with a belt. She rode my mouth first out of pure spite, grinding till she actually squirted all over my chin, laughing when the robot measured the splash distance. That same run, later, she made you fuck her from behind in the hallway with the door half open, neighbors’ footsteps outside, her moaning way too loud on purpose so you feel that humiliation creep in while still pumping her full and watching her stomach twitch when she feels the cum spill deep. The catgirl route goes more horror and sci fi if you lean into the superpower stuff: she glitches the lights, pulls some psychic domination, freezes your body mid stroke so she can sit on your cock and edge you, denying the orgasm until you are shaking, then forces a raw creampie where her eyes roll back ahegao style and her belly gives this tiny bump animation after. At one point she makes a clone of herself out of this slimy monster girl goo, and suddenly it becomes a group sex scene with two catgirls giggling while they share your dick between mouth and ass, keeping you right at the limit, the robot counting “denied orgasms: 7” in the corner like some cursed Excel sheet. I kinda hate how the UI sometimes bugs and the text boxes overlap in the most intense moments, but when you are watching an elf cosplay scene where your tanned fighter wears fake ears and gets throat fucked on the couch while the real catgirl records from the wardrobe crack, you just let it slide. Vaginal, anal, oral, handjobs under the table while you pretend to play a horror game, lesbian domination where the wrestler slaps the catgirl’s ass till it goes red and makes her lick your shaft before she sits down on it herself, even a messed up virgin blood fetish joke when you finally break that hymen flag on one route. It is all there, messy, horny, way too raw, like someone dumped their whole tag history into one save file and forgot to clean the edges.

Death in this game is like a bad Unity compile: you think “ok, that’s it,” and then it spits you back one year in the past and tells you to try again, except now you got a hard-on and godlike save scumming built into the story. You’re basically a horny superhero with the power of “what if I didn’t fuck that up?” and the whole town is your sandbox. One moment you’re chatting with a tired, hot older woman who has that soft-mom energy and cleavage that never quite fits in her clothes, next moment you’re quietly nudging events so some disaster never happens, while being absolutely distracted by the way her shirt sticks to her when it rains. The game pretends it’s about fate and responsibility, but half the time it feels like the devs asked: “what if time travel was just an excuse to flirt, screw up romances, then reload reality itself?”

The structure is pure visual novel, but it actually reacts. You say the wrong thing to her in one scene, brush off her feelings or push too hard when she clearly isn’t ready, and ten scenes later she looks at you like she remembers every tiny shitty choice you made. There’s this one moment where I tried to be the cool, distant hero, focusing on stopping something huge from happening, and I ignored a small, intimate talk with her in the kitchen. Later, when everything got tense, she just quietly said, “you never listen until it’s too late,” and that hit harder than any explosion. Right after that, the game lets you see her in a really tender, erotic CG, where she finally opens up… and you know you kind of didn’t earn it in that timeline. The hentai scenes are nice and shameless: soft lighting, curves that feel indulgent, a lot of focus on her face when she’s torn between “this is wrong” and “fuck it, I want this.” Sometimes the camera lingers a bit too long on one angle and I kept noticing a tiny shadow artifact on the edge of her hair. It annoyed me once and then I couldn’t unsee it. The dev will never fix it, I just know.

What I like is how your “superpower” is not just shooting lasers or something dumb. It’s messing with cause and effect, changing who comforts who, who survives, who falls in love, and that includes sexual tension that brews forever before it finally snaps. You might protect the town and lose her, or chase her so hard that the town quietly burns in the background, and the game doesn’t slap your wrist right away. It waits. Lets you sit in your mess. The romantic side is surprisingly sweet, almost softboy, then in the next scene you’re pinning her against a wall, kissing her neck while she mutters that this is insane and still pulls you closer. There’s this constant question: are you a hero, or just a guy abusing a cosmic reset button to get into a milf’s panties? The game doesn’t give you a clean answer and honestly it shouldn’t. I do wish there was one completely stupid route where you just waste your power on lottery tickets and porn subscriptions on Steam, but that’s never going to happen and that’s fine. I was going to talk about the supernatural side more but my brain keeps looping back to that one scene where she’s half undressed, asking if the universe is really worth saving if she ends up alone again, and you have to pick between touching her or stepping away. That choice stuck with me longer than any fancy effect or explosion. Maybe the real bug is that I kind of wanted the “wrong” option to feel even better.

Clara is basically what happens if some bootleg Lara Croft got drunk on porn logic and cursed artifacts, then decided pants are optional from now on. She’s got the tight top, huge tits that look like they’re one dodge-roll away from falling out, and that slightly smug “I’m smarter than this whole dungeon” face… right until the first horny ghost, tentacled monster or leather-obsessed cultist grabs her by the hips and the whole adventure turns into a sex reel. The ring she’s looking for feels like an excuse; the real treasure is how many ways the game finds to humiliate, worship, break or spoil her body while she still tries to act like a serious explorer. I love that mix. She’s climbing ancient ruins one second, and the next she’s on her knees, drool on her chin, cheeks tear-streaked while some paranormal futa thing is stuffing her throat and asshole at the same time. There’s this weird charm in watching a badass heroine that clearly masturbates in her tent, pretending she’s not into it, then completely losing control when someone actually grabs her ass and pins her down.

The whole thing plays like someone mashed a horny Tomb Raider parody with a turn based hentai RPG, then added too many fetishes and just said “fuck it, keep all of them”. You poke through crumbling corridors, flip some switches, solve puzzles that make you feel a tiny bit smart, then get ambushed by monsters that want way more than your HP. I liked how half the “game over” scenes feel more like “game reward” scenes. Lose a fight? Ok, here’s Clara on her back, ankles hooked behind her head, getting used like a toy by a group of masked cultists, one in her mouth, one grinding between her tits, somebody else stretching her pussy open until her belly bulges. Sometimes it’s male dom, sometimes she flips it and tramples a guy’s face with her dirty boots, makes him lick the sweat off her feet while she lazily fingers herself and pisses on his chest, like “this is what you wanted, right?” and you’re just nodding in front of the screen. There’s also that nasty, wet kind of voyeurism where the camera lingers from weird angles, like through a crack in the wall while she rubs herself in secret, or from the point of view of some demon watching her take a quick, desperate pee behind a ruined statue, only for a tentacle to slide up between her thighs. One route you get sweet-ish lesbian teasing and slow groping, another you end up strapped in some BDSM contraption getting filled from every side, double or even triple penetration, toys buzzing inside her while a harsh mistress tugs her hair and slaps her tits until they’re red. It’s messy, sometimes brutal with graphic violence right next to messy oral and rough anal, but there’s this twisted fantasy logic to it that made my artist brain spin: Clara on a stone altar, covered in runes and cum; Clara riding a monster like a mount while jerking off another with her feet; Clara crying and laughing at the same time because she finally got the ring, but she had to fuck half the paranormal world to earn it. I opened the game thinking “ok, silly porn parody”, and now my Pinterest is full of half-finished sketches of her getting railed in dusty tombs.

Game feels like someone put Mass Effect on a tiny phone screen, stripped out all the self-serious drama, and said “okay, now everyone just wants to fuck the aliens”. And honestly, it kind of works. You’re the captain on a small ship, nothing fancy, and your entire “save the human race” thing keeps getting derailed because the crew has huge tits, weird skin colors, tentacle hair, and zero sense of personal space. One moment you’re checking the galaxy map, next moment Liara lookalike has you pinned to the chair, blowing you while you try to pretend you’re still talking tactics. The vibe is chill though. There’s this lo-fi-ish background loop on some screens, almost like those YouTube “beats to smash blue alien girl to” playlists. I had it running on my phone during commute and almost forgot I was playing porn game until the first animated titfuck popped up and I had to angle the screen like a criminal.

The parody stuff is obvious if you ever touched Mass Effect. There’s the quarian-style girl in her suit, there’s the blue asari-type with psychic bullshit, plus some proper monster girl nonsense. They lean hard into big tits, like gravity is illegal. One scene with the quarian clone hit me more than it should: you’re checking her suit systems, supposedly fixing a problem, and the dialogue just slowly turns horny until your hand “accidentally” slides over her chest. The game doesn’t even pretend it’s a misunderstanding. She shivers, you push it, and next thing you’re groping her through the suit while she tries to keep her voice steady on comms. After that, when she finally opens her helmet for oral, they actually did a nice detail with her being shy and still going full throat anyway. I liked that she spits on your cock once, looks annoyed at herself for losing control, then just gives up and jams it back in. There’s also group sex scenes later where the blue girl and the quarian basically fight over who gets the creampie, and at one point they just settle on multiple penetration with tentacle toys because the captain can’t be in three holes at the same time. Basic math.

What surprised me: the sandbox bits aren’t just fake. There are simple battles and missions, yeah, but you really are jogging around the ship, poking at rooms, talking to girls in different moods. One time I failed a tiny combat encounter, and the punishment was basically a delayed H-scene where the alien monster pins the captain, uses him like a toy, and the crew finds him later half naked and exhausted. It felt more funny than dark, kind of like “okay, you sucked at combat, now you suck dick”. The cheat menu is there, just hiding like a dirty secret, and I 100% abused it to unlock a group scene where two aliens share your cock, one riding you raw while the other sits on your face, and when you finally cum, it splashes over blue skin and they argue about who deserved the load. I like the animated loops, even if sometimes the timing is a bit weird and the thrust speed doesn’t match the sound. That bothered me way more than it should and I kept staring at it instead of the actual pussy. Still, between the casual little RPG elements, space map, groping options, and all the alien sex, it somehow feels like a horny fan’s fever dream that escaped from someone’s phone and became a real game. It’s messy, but in a nice “yeah, I made this in my room while listening to chill beats” kind of way.

Your adventurer reaches the edge of the known world, pockets light, libido heavy, and the first thing the frontier throws at you is a horny ghost nun who wants to “purify” you with her tongue. That’s pretty much the tone here. One moment you’re juggling turn based combat against frost demons and corrupted paladins, thinking about stats and gear, and the next you’re flat on your back getting milked by a smug futa angel with more cock than patience. The world feels like someone mashed together a classic text RPG and a filthy sex diary, then forgot which part was supposed to be serious. You pick a body, tweak your tits, cock, ass, whatever, and the game never shuts up about it. Touch anything strange, drink something glowing, pray to the wrong goddess, and suddenly your “normal” hero is a lactating, tentacle-kissed, maybe-sissified mess who still pretends to care about saving people.

What I really liked is how the lewd stuff slips inside the normal exploration. You’re walking across some frozen pass, low on HP, trying to solve a simple puzzle to open a shrine door, and the puzzle is basically “how many holes are you willing to offer.” Pick “none” and you get a rough fight. Offer your mouth and you get a blowjob scene with a smug monster priest who uses your throat like a toy, then casually heals you. Offer everything and it turns into full multiple penetration, your character drooling, ahegao eyes rolling, demons laughing while they fill every opening until your corruption stat jumps. There is this one encounter with a tentacle-infested hot spring where you can just peek and voyeur from the rocks, stroking yourself in text, or you can climb in and end up being used as a living onahole, tentacles pumping your ass and pussy while another one wraps your throat and squeezes until you cum hands free. The game calls it “relaxing.” It is not relaxing. I replayed that scene four times.

Sex here isn’t “you won, here’s your prize.” Sometimes losing a battle means ***, sometimes winning still means ***, and sometimes teasing is worse than either. A smug milf cultist pins you down, edges you with her hand until you’re begging, then just leaves you with blue balls and a new fetish. A big bearded dilf paladin can either be your stern protector or your strict dom, depending how submissive you play it, and he actually spanks you mid-dialogue if you talk back too much. There’s corruption arcs where a cute virgin hero slowly becomes the village’s favorite cumdump, or turns into a futa demon queen who keeps her own harem on leashes, tits leaking milk while she uses toys on chained-up angels. Lesbian scenes feel playful and nasty at the same time, especially with monster girls who pretend to “teach” you but actually want to ride your face until you pass out. And then there’s the awkward stuff, like an early puzzle that just throws three sex options at you with barely any buildup, or a joke about religious “purity tests” that hits a bit too close, and you sit there wondering why your mobile browser is showing a possessed priestess forcing your character to confess every dirty thought while she fingers them under the altar. Still, a second later, you’re fighting an ice beast and laughing at some dumb, horny line, then opening your stats screen to check how much more corrupted you can get before the next transformation scene kicks in. It should feel too much. It doesn’t. Or maybe it does and that’s why it works.

Lily’s manor feels like someone took a fantasy hentai doujin, shook it too hard, and then let everything spill out all over an RPG map. You’re not some shy self-insert loser here, you’re a futa mistress walking around with way too much power, way too much dick, and a house full of maids who basically signed away their dignity the moment they put on the uniform. It actually keeps that “Futanari-sama and her maids” vibe pretty close, just less polished, like the panels got stretched into scenes and nobody bothered to iron the weird bits. One second you’re in a cozy maid hallway chatting about tea, next second you’ve got one of them on her knees, drooling on your shaft, trying not to choke while her eyes roll up. The game doesn’t build up slowly, it just pokes you like “hey, want to titfuck the busty head maid or go bully the shy virgin one first?” and if you’re like me, you just click both and see what breaks.

The manor management side is kind of funny because it pretends to be serious. You’re assigning maids to jobs, tweaking schedules, managing “corruption” like it’s some office KPI, but the real goal is just turning your whole staff into a horny, broken harem. You send one maid to “pray” in the chapel, and three scenes later she’s getting railed in front of a holy statue, creampie dripping out while she moans about religion and sin. There’s this nice stupid contrast: official-looking menus, and then you press confirm and boom, lesbian scene on the sofa, maid riding another maid’s face while you stand there stroking yourself and deciding who you’re going to fuck after. And mixed in that, out of nowhere, you get those darker corruption bits: non-consensual stuff, harassment that doesn’t pretend to be “mild,” maids pinned against walls, forced oral, internal shots of cum flooding them while they’re crying and clinging to you. It follows the source pretty well on that “worship the mistress whether you like it or not” tone, though some scenes feel rushed, like the build-up pages are missing and you jump straight to the money shot.

Then there’s the dungeon stuff, which feels like the author remembered halfway “oh right, this is an RPG.” Turn based fights, monster girls, weird transformations when you push certain routes too far. You’re smacking slime girls around, then suddenly they’re riding you instead, bouncing those big tits in a looping animation while your HP bar is screaming and you’re just like yeah, this is fine. Sometimes the game throws in a trap or futa enemy and it goes full group mess: everyone jerking each other off, milfs in the party getting sandwiched, you blasting a load inside someone, getting a creamy internal view, and then casually looting a sex toy from the chest after. The corruption carries into combat too, so characters you kept “pure” can end up totally ruined, and you actually feel it when the virgin maid who used to blush just from handholding is suddenly begging for anal or grabbing a monster girl’s horns to force her deeper during oral. The pacing is kind of all over the place, a bit like reading the manga in random order, but that messy energy actually suits it. Some scenes try to be funny and land, like a maid trying to “professionally” report daily tasks while you’re fucking her from behind, her glasses fogging up. Other times the humor falls flat and you’re just clicking through dialogue to get back to the next creampie or harem scene. Still, that constant swing between silly, cute, cruel, and outright filthy is weirdly addictive. It feels less like a polished VN and more like the horny draft version that accidentally got released, which, for this kind of fantasy, kinda works better anyway.

Thalmeris looks calm from far away, like those fantasy wallpapers you keep on your phone and never really think about. But inside this world everything is broken by old faith, blood and really fucked up desire. You start as this simple farm boy, soft life, fields, routine, the kind of guy that thinks destiny is just a pretty word in a prayer. Then in one ugly, rushed moment the whole thing is ripped away. Fire, screaming, metal on flesh, your father on his knees and some shadow figure cutting him down like he was nothing. And the person you care about most gets dragged off in chains while you are too weak to stop it. Game never lets you forget that you were useless there. It hits hard, more than I expected from a porn game on my phone if I am honest.

After that the story turns into this long walk through a world still shaking after holy war. Religion here is not just flavor, it is everywhere like dust. Half the people you meet quote some old scripture before they stab you. Temples still smell of incense and burned bodies. Knights pray right before they split someone wide open and the blood sprays on the icons. I liked how faith and lust are always touching each other. You see nuns with soft lips and heavy tits whispering about purity then ten minutes later one is on her knees in a ruined chapel, dress rolled up, back arched, moaning your name like a hymn while the candlelight shakes on her ass. It feels dirty in that special way where you know this is wrong but also exactly where you are supposed to be. Fate is a whore here and she is very affectionate.

The teasing is strong in this game, almost mean sometimes. You travel with this barbarian woman, tall and thick, big tits that never quite stay inside the leather, scars on her thighs that make you want to trace them with your tongue. She keeps calling you “farmboy” like an insult, flexing her arms, grabbing your shoulder a bit too tight. There is this one scene at a campfire, she drinks, laughs, stands up to stretch and her top slips just enough that you see the edge of her nipple in the light. She notices that you look and just smirks, sits down again and absolutely refuses to move things further that night. I spent the next battle totally distracted, failing a dodge because I was still thinking about that tiny flicker of pink. Stupid, but also very real.

Some of the best stuff happens in public. There is a city where old temples were turned into markets. You can flirt with this princess in disguise, trying to escape her own bloodline. She is proud, stubborn, always telling you that destiny is bullshit. You sneak with her through crowds, hiding from soldiers, and at one point she pulls you behind a broken statue of some forgotten god. People are walking right on the other side, priests chanting, merchants yelling. She grabs your hand and presses it between her legs through the dress and she is already wet, breathing fast, teeth on your neck. She keeps whispering “we should not, we should not” but her hips push into your fingers. It is not even full sex, just rough grinding and desperate kissing while you both try not to make noise. Exhibition vibe is crazy there, the fear of being seen gives everything this electric taste. Honestly, that short half-clothed scene turned me on more than some later full naked ones.

The game loves big tits and big asses, no lie. Every time you think they reached max size, a new character shows up and your brain says “ok, physics is cancelled now.” There is a devilish woman you meet in a ruin under a collapsed church, red eyes, slow smile, curves that look like someone cheated when they sculpted her. She plays with you a lot. She will appear in dreams, sit naked on your lap, pressing her huge tits against your chest, whispering about your “darkest wishes,” but then ask you to make choices that hurt people you care about. Sometimes when you pick the selfish option, you get this intense sex scene with her, claws on your back, her ass bouncing as she rides you, blood on the altar behind. When you try to be good, she just laughs and disappears, leaving you alone and hard. I hated her and also tried to see her every time.

What surprised me is how your decisions really twist the path. I took one route where I leaned into the whole chosen-by-fate thing, accepted the weird visions, followed the religious signs. Ended with a kind of fucked up holy warrior vibe, girls kneeling to pray with me then crawling onto my cock like it is another altar. In another run I played as this bitter cynic, no god, no plan, just survival. Different people slept with me, some romances never started, some turned cold. There was one ending where the princess I loved stood in front of a burning temple, crown on her head, looking at me like a stranger. No sex, just distance. It hurt more than when some enemies cut me open earlier with that graphic detail like ribs, torn flesh, organs almost spilling. Weird how the game can show guts hanging out one moment and then later make your heart feel more empty than your balls after a long scene. Destiny feels heavy here, but still, every choice you touch with your own dirty hands.

Guy shows up in the capital with one braincell goal: “I want to stop jerking off alone.” That’s it. No grand plan, no deep life purpose, just horny ambition and a packed underwear situation. Then game looks at him and says “cute, but no” and throws this smoking hot mystery woman in his way who basically speedruns his whole life into a weird sex RPG. It feels like the universe matched him with a chaotic cougar dungeon master on Tinder and he clicked “accept” without reading the profile.

The funny part is how it keeps pretending to be a serious fantasy quest while you’re literally peeking through keyholes to see bored wives doing self-care with toys because their husbands are away "at war" or whatever excuse. One moment I was trying to min-max charisma to unlock some noble lady route, next moment I’m in a barn, hand halfway up some stacked farmer’s wife’s dress, trying to hit a “don’t get caught” prompt while a cow looks at me like I’m the weird one. The game loves these tiny point & click puzzles where the reward is “you get to touch her tits” instead of gold, and somehow that works. Sometimes you just click everything on the screen like a monkey until you find the one thing that lets you progress to the next sex scene. I hate that. I also did it happily for an hour straight.

It feels like someone mashed an old-school dating sim with a horny fantasy DnD campaign and then forgot to balance anything. You think you’re doing smart choices, planning routes, managing affection like some romance spreadsheet in Google Sheets, and then a random milf with her tits almost falling out just leans over a table and suddenly all your planning becomes “ok I click the lewd option, who cares about consequences.” I tried to be a gentleman at first, then the game starts throwing masturbation scenes at you where your character is literally jerking it while spying through a window, and at that point my moral high ground just packed its bags and left. The animated bits are surprisingly expressive, like, you really feel when a hand slides under cloth or when someone gets groped in a dark hallway and gasps just a bit too loud. Sometimes I wished the sandbox stuff had more teeth, more risk, more people getting actually mad at me. It probably never will, and fine, I keep touching everything anyway. The humor is stupid and horny in that “I shouldn’t laugh but I do” way, like a cursed Discord server meme with boobs. Half the time I forgot what the main quest even is, because every side path is another frustrated woman, some magical creature with nice hips, and my idiot hero thinking with his dick and still, somehow, stumbling closer to being a legend instead of a public nuisance.