"CRASH" reviewed the game in their May 1989 issue, giving the game their CRASH Smash award and an overall 91% rating: "Stormlord is immensely playable, highly addictive and a great CRASH Smash." "Your Sinclair" gave the game a 93 rating stating that the game was "another stormer from Raffaele Cecco. Buy it!" "Entertainment Weekly" gave the game a B and wrote that the game requires players to think and strategize. In 2010, UGO included "Stormlord" in the article "25 Sexy Video Game Secrets".