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 :D73 days ago
- 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
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IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS DOWNLOADING WITH GOOGLE DRIVE
open google drive
select add shortcut
go to your personal drive, and find the shortcut
download from there.
I made an account just to tell y'all this. You better be grateful.
Tbh it's way shorter then I thought, but I do think this is one of the most well made game I've played
I'm confused with the size of this game I figured I'd get more story but I only got a couple hours, when the MC walks into the bathroom for the spray paint text is that actually the last scene? Or am I missing something, I also didn't get to do anything more then 3 punishments which is ok but I'd figure there would've been more?
( Not complaining I love the story, just curious if I missed a couple missions)
Yep, there's a fairly simple reason for this. One of the primary focuses of the game is choice and branching. Each of the 7 main girls have 3 potential routes you can take with them, and so the filesize comes from making content across all those routes. Even within the routes there is still variation in what can happen based on your choices, and so whilst a single playthrough isn't all that long, the game is designed for those who like to try doing things in multiple different ways. I'm aware that the vast majority of AVN players prefer to get pretty much everything in one playthrough, but the vast majority of AVNs are already built for that, so I intend this one to be different.
Eventually, the plan is that it will be a decent overall length, but within that length there is actually a fairly stupid amount of content. Working towards that goal already puts it at close to 400k words, almost 1000 animations, and over 10k renders, so by the time it's done it should be certifiably massive. (Though it will appear normal length for anyone who only plays it once.)
If you've only played through it once, then there is likely quite a lot of the game you haven't seen. A good example of this is the end of Riley's party thing. There are 4 different ways that can end, and so there are I think 5 different versions of the morning scene the following day, 4 of which being around 30-40 minutes long (If you read at a similar speed to me.)
Luckily, if you basically just want to unlock all the scenes, there's a gallery unlocker at the end of each update that will fully unlock the gallery and let you see what you missed. It only works for the sex scenes though, so anything you missed outside of sex scenes won't be unlocked.
Thank you, I play the game on android so it's not at all easy to fin games that are good enough to download for that size if you know what I mean... But so far this Avn is totally worth it
I thank you kindly for your time and explanation.
Will there be impreg?
Are there plans in the future to make the downloads compatible with the Itch.io app?
Hey @Atemsiel, I just wanted to let you know of an error I ran into in version .23.1.4, just after making the bet with Akemi and headed to meet Riley in the basement. I don't know the best way of letting you know of the issue.
I'm getting: IOError: Couldn't find file 'audio/Music/BasementFloor.ogg '.
Not sure how much that helps... let me know if you need a copy of the log and the best way to get it over to you. Ignoring it allowed me to continue, so not a huge deal as its just a compressed audio file.
Looking forward to the next update, we got left with a big cliffhanger and anxious to see who exactly these people are and where the story goes!
this is one of the most intriguing AVN's ive played and was really sad when it ended in the bathroom scene on a cliff hanger but I'm really exited to play the game with more of the quirky Russian girl and get the shit scared out of me by a ghost (again) love this game keep it up. :)
Tbh I'm having a difficult time trying to download this, maybe it's my laptop, or maybe it's the link itself. Kinda disappointing but I'll try again sometime
Any plans for an android version?
I have a question if anyone has the answer, I just finished the game and checked gallery and i understand some scenes are locked behind sub,romance and slave but what about the other scenes? I feel like i would of got more scenes unless they arent added into the story and only available for gallery. For example when i played i decided to make sasha submissive but there are several more scenes in gallery that i didnt obtain.
Yep, so the reason for this is that the branching isn't just a case of picking a route for each girl. Some routes have additional choices within them that can lead to different content. Using Sasha as the example, you can make her submissive and you get content associated with that, but what if you didn't get to punish her after the first ghost hunt? In which case, you get a different scene if you choose to punish her later on. It's that kinda thing. I do this because I like choice in games, but I know not everybody has the time to go through a game multiple times to get everything, so you can unlock all scenes at the end of the game if you really want.
how to update(step by step pls)
Anyone know the app that allows u to play these PC versions on android
Joiplay
Ahh thank you, much appreciated!
Hey i played this through a few months back and when i finished it i unlocked the whole gallery but now i want to play through it again and want to aim for different things in the gallery, how do i delete my save file to start a new?
Great game man! when is 0.24 coming out??
God damn this game made we laugh too much. You hit the right balance with the humor and timing of some silly situations in this game.
I'd really like to play this, but the downloads keep failing.
I gave up trying to get the file from Mega after a handful of attempts (their service has really gone downhill lately for me in general) and I've tried over a dozen times to download it from Google, but it fails prematurely every time.
(EDIT 4/09/2024: See my reply comment.)
Any chance you can upload to MediaFire as an alternative? (https://www.mediafire.com/)They're very reliable and have been around forever. I never have any trouble using their service for downloads. Even really large files download perfectly on the first attempt for me.Yes I don't know if I tried google drive already somewhere else, but i don't like when it tells me it can't check whatever it tries to check from a download.
On closer inspection, it seems Mediafire has a max 2GB file size limit for free accounts, so that might not be viable.
Pixeldrain (https://pixeldrain.com/) is another service I have seen other AVN devs use as an alternative to Google and Mega, and they allow up to 20GB files, no account required.
I have downloaded successfully from them in the past, so that might be an option you could look into at least for public releases.
Love the detail in the options for the "British" unit type, A+ game just for that dumb joke.
Also please never change the scribbled curfew scene, that was too funny.
I would like to give some unsolicited feedback.
First of all, I like the game. I can feel the enthusiasm and creativity put into making it. I only just finished the first ghost event and BOY do I have a lot to say up until this point.
My major qualm as a software developer is the following: if you have time to write tens of lines of text to explain that your code is bad, you should spend that time learning how to make your code bad. If you have to tell me that scroll doesn't work because it causes bugs, don't tell me that - disable scrolling altogether. There were more instances of this, but this one was the biggest by far.
My second issue is as a game designer: Let your gameplay explain what you want the player to do. Ghost hunt sequence was painful in this regard. it first gave me a whole bunch of text to read, then let me skip out of it. Some objects that are interactable make a noise, others don't (like the bones). Books are the same color as the background, so they were often invisible. Also, if I want to open a map, I have to open a book and then click twice to the right. Why isn't a map a button by itself? There is a metric butload of great videos on this topic as well as programing, I heartily recommend it.
Lastly, as a consumer, the whole product feels underbaked. So many features feel uncomplete. When I see so many uncompleted features in the first few hours of playing, I expect to see even more going forward.
I will now give an advice, out of my best intention for you to expand as a game maker. Make a todo list of all the bugs and missing/half-done features and start working through it. If you have a time budget for game development, dedicate a significant chunk of that time to this (e.g. 30% of time or 1/3 days, whatever works for you). If you are unsure in what order to tackle things, ask for advice, I'm sure someone will be willing to help (myself included). And then just start doing them. Take one item from the list and do it until you finish it or realize you cannot finish it without adding more things to the todo list. And just keep doing this as long as you need to. This will help you develop your skills immensely and it will be a boon going forward because you will learn how to avoid making mistakes in the future and you will start pumping out features and content even faster.
I wish you all the luck and I can't wait to see what this project turns into! Good job!
Riley is best gurl, Cassie is super close second
(Just finished 0.23.1)
Great game, really love it.
Now... WTF IS THAT ENDING????
Mega link isnt working so well it keeps going into error so is there another way to download ?
Can i launch with joiplay on Android
Hello Mr. Atemsiel. It's me, again. This time with a shorter post, just wanna ask a question. How is the sex scene with Sasha in the latest update supposed to be accessed? I, for the life of me, couldn't find it. I like to unlock all the scenes organicanically to i can know the context in which they take part. However, i used the "unlock everything" button for the first time to unlock this scene because i couldn't figure out what i needed. From the scene itself, it seems that in her slave route, you make the deal with her (that you'll give her some relief if she can stay quiet in class) but she doesn't manage to and you punish her for it. But that doesn't seem to be possible ingame? Help appreciated!
I know it was probably pretty easy to code but I'm impressed by the laptop actually screwing with the charactors name!
Please for the love of all things right, leave at least the first "render" as is for the Directors visit on the 4th. I spit when it popped up from laughing and it was hilarious.
I came to share the same. I laughed for 5 nonstop minutes. Brilliant.
hello , could really use some assistance, I'm stuck on a part where I've arrived at the school and i cannot progress. tells me to open my phone but i already talked to father, i joined discord server and I'm try to get help on fixing this, thanks (if i have to send a save file i will need help on that process. or should i try redownloading?
For me when i had this happen i rolled back to before the txts and clicked through it, then closed and reopened the message, clicked once again and it got me through. The phone seems a little buggy and it was mentioned to be careful with it in the very beginning. Hope this works if you havent gotten it fixed yet
Press the D key, Wait, after the error screen appear choose ignore for skip the scene.
This looks like a fun game! Can't wait to play :) I just found this on the valentines day bundle so im pretty excited. Are there any cheats available for now?
Edit: just found out there's no android version. Will you be making one?
How is this AVN not talked about more? I found it through the Valentines bundle. Never heard anything about it before. Glad I found it. Lots of content and just all-around well made. Character designs are also top tier. Definitely one of my favorites now.
IDK about you but i use accents in my head for the characters except Cassie and now Shasha makes me wanna learn Russian since she often uses it in her dialog.
Ahahahahaha...I see what you did there...
gdrive link doesn't work now. it says the file has downloaded too many times recently , try again after 24 hours and Mega won't let me download it all
I only recently found this and I've been really enjoying Stormside so far! Much funnier and cuter than I was expecting. I'm afraid I'm having a problem with the new release, though. I'm playing v. 0.23.1.4 on Mac and it launches fine but as soon as I try loading any save the game immediately hard crashes (force-quits itself immediately) and spits out a traceback crash log with:
"I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
Exception: Audio channel u'_movie_862_mask' is unknown.
I can post the entire traceback if you'd like.
All saves are from the most recent previous release (0.22.06) and both builds were downloaded from here or Patreon. Also, starting a new game seems to work fine. It's only loading saves that's the issue.
(Edited to correct prev. ver. # to 0.22.06 from 0.22.05)
I have exactly the same problem but from 0.22.6. Also running on Mac, so that might be it. Or not.
Yes, mine were from 0.22.06 as well. I wasn't near my computer at the time and was going from memory. Always a bad idea!
According to the Stormside Discord, this is a known but intermittent problem on all platforms. No known solution yet. I just started my game over.
I'm also getting the same issue. As I don't want to start the game over again, I guess I need to wait for a fix to be released.
I'm also getting the same problem.
The fuk ? After 4 years playing VN , why did i missed this god-made game ? One of the best overal and definitely the best with UI, Preference, Choices, Routes, .... Respect !
anyway to direct download?mega wont let me finish downloading it and g drive dosent work
Sadly that's all there is at the moment. I've emailed itch to ask for more hosting quota (To allow players to download directly from itch) but I haven't received a response yet. Once they give me enough space to upload the game here, that will become an option.
I'm having issues with both of these too unfortunately.
Would it be possible to try a multi-part, split archive approach? I think the main issue for me is that the file is just too large to get in one shot without failing on either hosting service.
It would be one way to work around the Itch file size limits to be able to host files directly, or make the downloads on Mega/Google more likely to complete successfully by breaking it into multiple smaller files.
7-zip (https://7-zip.org/) is one free cross platform software option that can handle creating split archives in multiple parts, as well as combining them back together.
Have you tried mediafire
I have tried very hard to download this (both via Mega and Gdrive) and have really struggled. Is there a trick to it or I just have to keep trying?
im on june 28 and when the mc is looking at the 4 girls front of him off in the distance im trying to progress after the messagees with dad buti cant find a solution despite trying evrything
If you send me your save file via my Discord, I can fix this for you. The bug itself should be removed in the next version, but if you send me the save I can fix it and send it back.
Same thing for me.. stuck at june28th no way i can see to proceed. Prettu sad too was getting really into it.
hi, what does the option for "girls sex stats wiped" means what does it changes if its yes or no?
and what does this text under means
Early in the game you get access to the girls' sexual stats, including what they've done before the start of the game. The player can choose to set all stats to 0 so it becomes a record of only what's happened since the MC got access, or they can just leave them as they are, so you get a bit of insight into the girl's past. Either way, it makes no difference to the actual story, and wiping the stats won't actually change what they've done.
The option you're looking at is in the rename menu, which is sort of like a bonus menu where you can edit some aspects of the game if you change your mind about something. This particular option allows you to wipe or reinstate the girls' stats even after you were given the original choice, but the text under it refers to the fact that it will only affect the original stats. For example, if a girl had given a BJ before the game started, her BJ stat would be 1 when you get access to the stats. If you wiped them, it would be set to 0, but if you didn't, it would remain at 1. If you then played another hour and during that hour of gameplay she gave 2 BJs, her BJ stat would either be 3 or 2 depending on whether you wiped her stats originally. This option will not wipe what happened in that hour.
You can toggle sex stats on or off here as much as you want without causing a problem, but the rename menu contains a number of other settings which you probably shouldn't touch unless you've already been given the option to change them in game. It's only there for if you want to change things later on, and isn't something to be messed with at the start of the game.
thank you so much for the info, i understand now
First playthrough, i gotta say, out of all the ones I have played so far, this is top 3. How you left it til the next update is a great way to end it. No spoilers from me, but it ended really good to make me wanting more. Lol. Now, I gotta return to it so I can go the other routes n so on. Gonna take me more time and I like it that way. Keep up the great work. I can't wait until you release the next version, and hopefully when this is done, you make another :)
Please can we solve the GDrive download issue? dying to try this game
google drive is working. if it says it can't scan, download it anyways