
Game
Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts
About this game
A surreal, abstract kinetic visual novel in which two girls go on a date in the middle of a broken world, using down-to-earth intimacy to survive the deteriorating nature and reality surrounding them.
Two girls go on a date in the middle of a violent, collapsing world. Despite their contrasting temperaments, Holly and Isabel carve out a fragile pocket of tenderness, using each other as refuge from everything around them. This is the first entry in Camocipher12 Shorts, a series of low-cost visual novels featuring self-contained stories designed to deliver a dense emotional experience in a compact runtime.
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Game facts
Release date
Jun 30, 2026
Developer
Camocipher12
Publisher
Camocipher12
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Genres
Indie, Visual Novel
Themes
Horror, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Text
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