'Rent A Girlfriend' Visual Novel Game, Release Date Announced, Pre-Order Available

The official Twitter account for MAGES games recently posted that an upcoming visual novel game by them is available for pre-order. That game being 'Rent A Girlfriend: The Horizon and Her Swimsuit'.

The game is based on the anime 'Rent A Girlfriend' and will be released exclusively on the Nintendo Switch and the Playstation 4. There was no mention of a Playstation 5 release but with strong backwards compatibility, that shouldn't be an issue for the console users.

The game will be released on November 28th, with pre-orders available from today. Alongside the game, those that pre-order 'Rent A Girlfriend: The Horizon and Her Swimsuit' will also receive many other rewards, such as a box with an exclusive illustration, four CDs containing 'fanciful situational drama', the original soundtrack, and one of five randomly selected illustrations drawn by Reiji Miyajima, the mangaka of the 'Rent A Girlfriend' manga series.

This new game will not follow the plot of the original series but will instead branch off into a side story that will take place on an island. All the main cast will be present, performing odd jobs on the island for the duration of a week.

For those that would like to familiarize themselves with the series, all three seasons of 'Rent A Girlfriend' are currently available on Crunchyroll.

The summary of the anime by the streaming site reads, "Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. "Ugh... Damn it. I never want to go through that again." Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears, "You're Kazuya-kun, right?" A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!"