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Stegalosaurus Game Development · Published by Stegalosaurus Game Development · Official site ↗
Positive — 83% positive (12 reviews) · 41 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Welcome to Elsinore Academy, a proving ground for young royalty; where people from all over the globe come for higher learning, and the cheerleaders are literal witches. Are you ready to enroll? Maybe get with Othello? Eh? EH?
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Price history
Adventure, Indie · 2018 · More £5 - £15 games
Embark on a unique adventure at Elsinore Academy, where witches are cheerleaders and royalty learn from each other. Choose your path and dates in this indie game from Stegalosaurus released in 2018.
About this game
Elsinore Academy is a proving ground for princes and princesses, heirs and heiresses; where people from all over the globe come for higher learning, and the cheerleaders are literal witches.
It is months after the unfortunate events that brought shame to Castle Hamlet, and everyone is on edge. What better way to shake off the blues than to engage in a dating simulator? But soon, what starts as a simple excursion into romantic pursuits because something much more complex. Dare we say..... Shakespearian?
F-bombs are dropped. Sexual innuendo abounds (but not, like, a lot). Can you survive your freshman year? Who knows!
Does include drug references, sexual humor, and swearing.
- Gather information on classmates as you navigate the weird dating scene of Elsinore Academy
- Romance six classic Shakespeare characters
- Explore both the Academy as well as the surrounding town of Elsinore
- Gossip/time/class system
- Determine the fate of your classmates
- Try to survive a freshman year full of branching story paths
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows XP
- Storage: 516 MB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10
- Storage: 516 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
patch, 8.26.2026
Typos Pathing for DLC Flag placement and addition Variable changesRead full article on Community Announcements (Duck Whitman)AnnouncementsOfficial
Paper Shakespeare 3 is out FRIDAY!
The game is out this Friday!Why not May? Why almost a month gap? Because we realized that we are never giving a game that does not need such a big buffer that big of a buffer ever again.Some IRL stuff also came up that would make a May launch difficult, as well, and we decided it just was not worth the hassle to try to make everything "work".Read full article on Community Announcements (Duck Whitman)Patch NotesOfficial
Lizards, patch 2.23.2026
https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/05f6db785e09cc00c052a009be7afe1a94df8635.jpg - FIXED: Broken variables related to UIRead full article on Community Announcements (Duck Whitman)AnnouncementsOfficial
Patches, 2.18.2026
https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/93518e73b48c278ed0c7890317127fef60e98c81.png Made it so infinite hunts can't happen after 12 Upped hunt limit to 12 Put/Moved the variable for hunts subtraction in the actual capture files https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/34e9796c0ffcd5de62411dfa634381e59b7a7ebb.jpg Fixed: TyposRead full article on Community Announcements (Duck Whitman)AnnouncementsOfficial
The 10-Year Sale!!!!!
https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/b1dbe8ffafdf07f071199c05ac49abe237f27b0e.jpg Ten years, ten games.Read full article on Community Announcements (Duck Whitman)
