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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This might be a controversial opinion—but, the timing of Atemsiel's return (coinciding with itch's de-indexing and subsequent re-indexing of nsfw games) stinks.
I can't help but feel like they are just trying to continue milking their patreon supporters. And I am saying this as someone who hopes for the continued development of this game.
If he had IRL problems, I think the very least he could have done was to inform the people who were financially supporting development instead of leading them on and misleading supporters to think that an update is imminent.
As it stands, I find it very difficult to want to to support the developer. I hope Atemsiel can be more consistent in the future or, at the very least, more transparent in terms of communication
Atemsiel, as i don't follow on patreon, will write it here. Read what happened. Hope all is now going better, even i really get what you said, similar situation but with other debts. About Stormside, is your story, take your time to refocus, and if you think is better to restart, make changes, or something else, just continue and do it. Creation is enjoyment too, dont fight against what you love to satisfy another one. Hating later whay you create is a pain, own experience.
your back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Atemsiel has posted about his disappearance..
really ? where
patreon (free post), maybe SS as well
damn, i have to see thi
Please dont give up on this game its so good
A couple nights ago, I actually had a dream where I went to the Bahamas with Cassie and Riley. Riley was breaking records in Space Invaders at the arcade, while Cassie was being her joyous self, pulling my arm and bringing me to various locations around the island. We did activities like lawn bowling, volleyball and beach strolling. My mom made a cameo too, eating lunch in a cafeteria and telling me, "You guys having fun?"
My brain must have been reminding me how much I miss Stormside, to the point it generated a nonexistent chapter. Wherever you are, Atemsiel, I hope you're safe at the very least. Crazy how he drops one of the best AVNs I've ever played and dips, leaving it on a cliffhanger. It reminds me of what happened to that drama series called Siren.
lmfao this cant be serious
Nope, I'm not joking. All the details of the dream were vague, so I explained it the best I could based on what I saw. I also rarely dream, so when I do, I always remember the last one.
as it stands, itch.io are shadowbanning all nfsw games .so , author please move to the steam. some will pay premium but please some form of free gameplay
More information here: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content
Petitions below:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w...
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
Because Steam is the same situation as itch,... ?!
Hope the dev comes back, this game was really good
Same, I will always wait for Stormside to continue!
yes, i live in hope also
Dear developer, if you ever come back, know that your game was one of the best I've played on this website and that I wish it was 10 times longer.
I want to see how my relationship with Riley and Cassie will grow. The three of us haven't even had sex yet, I promised I would take both of their virginities at once. I would love to make good on that promise.
I want to go on more ghost hunts with my ghostbuddy Sasha. We still need to find a way to save her mother, I can't let her down.
I want to help Hikari become more confident, more joyful, and see here blossom into a lovely young woman.
I want to earn Akemi's respect, show her that she can trust me.
I want to spend more time with Taliya too. We still haven't interacted much, but I'm sure we would get along well.
I want to spank Olivia. Which isn't to say I hate her. She's just a dumb kid, she can still grow up. I want to help her become a better person, even if that means spanking her a little... *especially* if that means spanking her a little.
And there are so many other things I still want to do in your world. I hope you come back to us one day. In the meantime, take care.
thank you everyone for warning me this was abandoned on a rough cliff hanger LOL sad but i'm avoiding so i don't get my heart broken again
IMHO it's worth playing even if you have to you let your imagination finish the story. Sadly we only have Act I, but it's still of higher caliber than most AVNs I've come across.
Anyone found this guy yet? I need to have a conversation with him
I only just discovered this AVN, and seeing that it's seemingly been abandoned is absolutely gut wrenching. I sincerely hope the developer is still with us and OK, having stopped for whatever reason.
If there's any chance he reads this at some point, I just want to add my two cents that even unfinished what you produced is a masterpiece. Thank you for your superlative work even if it leaves me longing for more.
BROO IT WAS STARTING TO GET GOOD AMAZING CLIFF HANGER
yeah the project is abandoned
man that make me sad, what even happened?
As best as anyone can tell the dev just disappeared. Before the original Discord channel went down the mods mentioned that he'd sounded really excited about the new update that was almost ready and then nothing. Nobody has heard from him since.
did he die?
Why does the discord banner link to a a really dodgy polish Roleplay Channel ??
So the dev doesn't exist anymore on the internet? Hope Atemsiel is ok and that this VN (GOAT btw) can get an update
no he gave up on the project, im sad too but go try that new teacher or ripples or school of love: club
the dev came back with a biiig explanation ! now we must support him
这本该是个优秀的H作品，可惜作者莫名其妙失踪了，不知道跑路了没。
This game should be a masterpiece，but the author is missing with no reason. Damn
Dear dev, ILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR ABANDONING THIS PROJECT WITHOUT HAVING FUCKED CASSIE !! YOU HEAR MEE ZEUSSS?!!!
Dear dev, If you ever read this thanks for what you did, I spected a mid harem game but it turned out amazing, im sad its abandoned, you really made a good work with the girls, there are some of the best ones ive seen in any harem game, hope you are good in you life and wish the best for you.
PD: If you ever comeback dont you dare to have just put a footjob stat in the magistrate menu just for none of the girls to give one, I bet Olivia route would relate to that, as well as the dirty Cassie would be curious to give one
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
no response yet? damn it's probably my shitty laptop lmao
I am afraid so...Playing this game I had no problems on my laptop. This story seem abandoned. Another two tips: Cosy Cafe (by Cosy Creator, still very active and good harem-story) and, not yet released but soon coming hopefully, Princess on the Run (One Hand Clapping Consortium) And I really hope that Atemsiel will return soon...
right haha, i heard about the creator being mia, i hope he's good. cosy is really fun, im update to date with that ! and on the run i havent tried ! ill check it out! i appreciate the reply and the recommendations :)
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?
I agree on you about something might have happened IRL. I don't know his country of origin, but what I do know is that I was playing a game and the develloper suddenly had to destroy everything he made because the police (or maybe secret church service, or whatever it's called) was after him. He was just in time. Maybe something like this is here the case too. I actually hope not...
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)
It is a very good game so far.
The story is great and the sex scenes are plenty and pretty hot.
Problem is just he seams to have abandoned it.
So get it for free and play it so far as it goes, ends in a bit of a cliffhanger though ricght now
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.