Stormside
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
This is Stormside - An adult harem visual novel..
After returning from your time within a special military unit designed for people with magical abilities, you meet your childhood friend, Riley, and her best friend Cassie, who are planning their own next steps in life. You find yourself joining them at the Stormside International Academy.
It isn't long before you discover that this academy, and the way it treats its students is anything but ordinary...
(And no, the magical abilities aren't "you can corrupt girls with your mind" or anything like that..)
This is a game about an academy that allows female students to be sexually punished and/or rewarded by an individual known as "The Magistrate". When the Magistrate gets injured, his position is up for grabs, allowing you to take his place.
Will you use your new position to protect the girls from punishment, or will you use it to become their master?
The game features a branching story that changes depending on your choices, and so it's not possible to get all the content in one playthrough. It's worth knowing that going in.
880+ animations!
10,000+ renders!
So far...
Hope you enjoy :D Here's some characters..
If you like it, and wanna support development and get early access to builds and stuff....
Alternatively, if you just wanna come and shout at me...
Additional details
- The game features lesbian content, which you can opt out of. Doing so changes the story, but not negatively.
- All punishments are optional, with one exception. In the current version, there is one punishment you are forced to carry out, but you can choose to be tame.
- You definitely aren't gonna see all the content in one playthrough, and this will only become more true as development goes on. (You can use saves though to achieve this. The game does have named saves.)
- Not all the choices matter, but a lot of them do. There's a gallery unlocker at the end in case people just wanna see all the scenes though. There is (or will be) more than one way to get on each girl's route, the whole idea is to do what you wanna do, without having to worry about accidentally locking yourself out of your preferred outcome. Since the game is in development, it may seem like there's an optimal path right now, but as development continues, this may prove not to be the case. For example, not getting a scene at the end of the current update, means you'll most likely get a scene later on which you otherwise wouldn't have gotten. This game will be a completionist's nightmare lmao.
With all that in mind, have fun ya nerds.
Here are some other fun games :D
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Development log
- 0.23.1 public release :DFeb 12, 2024
- 0.22.04 updated to 0.22.05Sep 28, 2023
- Stormside 0.22.04 PUBLIC RELEASESep 26, 2023
- 0.22 (It's not out yet, don't get too excited.)Jul 03, 2023
- Stormside 0.21.02 patchMar 01, 2023
- Stormside 0.21.01 released :DFeb 21, 2023
- Stormside 0.2.02 (Bugfix)Nov 16, 2022
- Stormside v0.2 released!Nov 11, 2022
Comments
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Loving the work so far!
game laggy for anyone? it's probably because of my crappy laptop, but if anyone has experienced this what was your solution? and yes i tried the image cache adjustment in the settings it didnt work after restarting the game while trying the highest and lowest values
wacth out with these guy creatorStudio he is a spammer, check all the account he got...
So nobody know why the dev stop to work on this project, 3 thing may come to my mind,1: no fund available, that mean we got to support the dev a little more, althougth time is roff for everyone, and we understand that not everybody got the money for that, me first, 2: the idea sometime ideas don't come as fast after a while, that why there always a team behing a game dev, and 3: the coding, i know how it could be frustrating to try to implant a new system, and nothing work the way you see thing, again it alway a matter of how much your willing to pay your collab, but sometime even when you got help, you feel like it not your baby anymore, and that even worse of all the rest, and in the end if the dev got no more fun or nothing more to say sometime it better just to make a quick ending ...and get out of the picture.
Finally sometime if the dev would not have all these problem, there always the bad comment on the net that lower the moral and that is probably the worst off all , the cherry on the cake that make everything collaspe.
Personnally never played Atemsiel game i wish i did but for some reason it look like the game is bug and doesnt want to start, it just stay on a black screen like if the ini was on false. But as a developper that just found out about ren and python i see what are the chalenge that dev go througth and they have all my respect whatever their project are, it is a tougth job...
He is missing right now, and nobody can contact him.
As early 2025, he promise about the next update, which is very huge and cover a lot of character. He said, he is still very motivate to develop the game. However, around Mar-April, he is just missing, even other admin in his discord can't contact him.
I think there are something more depth behind his missing. Unfortunately, but it is very possible that something has happen in his real life. Less possible, but from my experience from meeting the deadline, i think he has too much stress to deliver the update that satisfy the waiting of people, so he just shut off his contact for his mental health and work when he feel the motivation again. This is common phenomenal for creator when they get burn out.
The game is good, and i don't think people don't fund it enough. Just hope nothing happen to him IRL. If not then it is very likely he will comeback oneday.
Just be patience and don't get your hope too much. This is all we can do right now.
hey i totally understand, like i tried to explain, coding is a tougth job, really, and if he need a break, or even if he need to quit, he got the rigth to do the best he can to preserve what is the most important to him. I whish him the best. Ty Yuri i would like to wish for a world where everybody can do what he like and not care about health, wealth and all the other word finishing by ealth if there is, but you know like me that were far from star trek (now this migth be a akward reference , let just say that there is no more money in star trek) have a good one ...let cross our finger for his well being first than his come back w/e the reason of his absence...
I´m on the Discord. But can´t read much, is there a English section?
does taliya have a sex scene now?
I fucking hate it when a game getting this good just stops and the project just fucking dies.
He ain't coming back. I mean, I wish he would. Stormside could be a masterpiece. But he just left it behind. It's terrible, really.
Damn it, the virus-spreading comments are more active than ever.
Guys, we all have to collaborate to keep the comments clean, until the day Atemsiel comes back..! Downvote the bots!
Why is there no choice of Chinese language?
discord link not working i guess
This guy (guy, right?) casually:
- Creates one of the most promising AVNs of all time
- Remains active until 2024
- Mysteriously goes AWOL in 2025
- Refuses to elaborate
lol oof i didnt notice how long it has been since last update, naybe it was a bad idea to try the game yesterday, oops :D
edit: he did a post in his patreon at the end of 2024 so maybe there's some hope :D
I'm really hoping for it..!
As my first ever game downloaded in Itch, this one's got a special place in me.
(Also the renders/graphic is extremely superior to most other AVNs of the same genre, ngl lol)
The following comments confused me a bit. So once again my problem: I installed Stormside on a Linux computer and came to the point "Monday, June 28th at 10:00 a.m.". The message in the cell phone flashes, although there is no more new message and therefore does not let me go on. How can I solve the problem?
PSA: DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS IN THE COMMENTS. there have been a lot of Trojan virus's being spread around, and especially dont trust anyone that says they have the updated version.
We must defend the page
I have a Linux system
And why are C ++ files in update when the program is written in Python?
This game and likely 99% of Visual Novels use RenPy.
While RenPy is written in Python, Python itself is written in C/C++
Unfortunately, I get stuck on Monday, June 28th at 10:00 a.m. The cell phone flashes with messages but there is no more message
How do people make these cg models? Is there a certain site where i can one can find models with similar style to these?
Honey Select 3 ! It's a game but you can create a whole character, environment, backgrounds etc... It's an expensive and really big game, can be found for free of course !
I’m using daz3d with blender from blender download makehuman system assets. Blender assets can be used in Daz3d. There is many how to video’s out there. Here’s a tip make your city/background before you write your story or you may have a lot of rewriting your script/story. Best thing to do is check each program assets to see which would work for you the best. Just be careful making your game it could become a money pit if you are having to buy program/assets/backgrounds/audio files. Well hope that was helpful. Take Care and good luck 😉
bro world is a better place because of people like you hehe
Really sad that the game is dead, it definitely had some potential.
Based on the Discord announcement from April 2nd, 2025, Atemsiel is AWOL. Nobody has been able to get into contact with him and nobody even knows whether or not he is alive at this point.
Discord Link for Atemsiel's Basement
https://discord.com/channels/977714021056778240/1266935640105156668/126693746496...
It sends me to discord but it does nothing else.
Anyone else having problems?
Yeah.
Update: got in https://discord.com/invite/6324CGJ3b4
I've asked the mod to create a new invite - will post when I can
Has anyone heard from Atemsiel? I haven't heard from him in a while.
its been 1 year 3 months and 5 days (May 17 2025).... i dont know if he quit cuz the time difference throughout the updates were only a few months but between 0.23.1 and 0.22.04 are 4 months and 15 days...
Check his other game "That New Teacher". He has been working on that, the most recent development log was 4 days ago (May 14 2025). Good game, I recommend you go play it.
I agree that it's a good game, but That New Teacher is by a totally different dev by the name RogueOne.
I own it. That New Teacher sucks by comparison.
This is better than the Headmaster also. It's a shame this project is dead.
That New Teacher is by a different dev. RogueOne
Props 2 u, Atemsiel.
Awesome story and Characters you had done. I hope you are okay and healthy. It would be great to see you continue this great VN.
Thought about following you and to donate some cash, but people are not sure if you will or can be back for more. Fingers crossed I say. :))
Have a good one!
Top-tier beginning here, can't wait for future updates. For the second time I was caught where right as things were getting good the game ends :P
So far it seems that playing the nice guy doesn't result in the best scenes or routes, but time will tell if the saints route redeems itself with more story progression. I spent the entire game wondering why the collars hadn't come up yet... They do if you don't play like I did.
Is anyone else having an issue where they can't advance through the story? The in-game phone seems like it has a notification for me to read, but there's nothing there, and I can't progress any further without reading an invisible message.
discord link is expired, was trying to get in for news on next update. Aside from that this game is amazing, and has made it to my list of favorite VNs, keep up the amazing work!
No news on an update. Last post from Atemsiel was before Christmas 2024 and the last post from the Community Manager was from April 2nd, 2025. In that post they stated that nobody was able to get into contact with Atemsiel and nobody even knows whether or not he is alive.
this game is so good so far hope new content will come soon
Why is the test white on white I cant see crap unless I highlight it? (I'm typing this blind by the way cause I can't see what I'm typing so if there's any mistakes blame the page)
praying for you atemsiel <3 hope everything’s alright !!
RiP Stormside
born may 2022 died dec 2024
What do you mean died Dec 2024?? Do you mean it's not getting updated anymore??
no one hope for an update anymore ,no one is able to contract atemsiel currently so yep this game can consider dead
Just when I've just started playing it😔. The characters, the plot, and the expansive path in which the story could go all have so much potential. It's so sad to hear it's getting discontinued.
Ich liebe dieses Spiel wirklich! Aber stelle sicher, dass du einen 24/7 Discord Link machst, da deine Links nicht funktionieren xD
anyone else soft locked at the beginning when you first get to the school just after you get a message from mc's dad? and anyone know how to fix it
got it to work by just starting a new run and skipping though
Chinese？
chinese，please!
Any hope of an Android/oculus version?
Intriguing... hope there's an update soon
will there be an update to this game?
The dev disapiert and no one knows waht happend so we dont now
Okay finger cross the dev comes back as the game is really good
chinese language plz！！
¿Cómo me paso el juego del fantasma?
我不希望这个游戏和极度异常一样停止开发
I tried getting to him thru Patreon PM, public chat, and reviews there and here. I would love if somebody that knows him could get some kind of confirmation from him as to what's going on.
This game is , so far, a lot better than others in the same vein that are a lot more complete than this one. I really want it to continue.
ikr id pay to play this, its good
So it looks like the Dev has only posted on his subscription platforms and locked the posts behind paid tiers from December 2024. So if anyone over there can tells us if it's been abandoned that would be nice.
one of the discord mods got regular updates from the dev to pass on, but hasn't been able to reach the dev in a while and is unsure of the status of the game