Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts cover

Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts

First release
Jun 30, 2026
Publisher
Camocipher12
Engine
renpy
Genres
Indie, Visual Novel · Drama, Horror, Comedy, Romance

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.

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Storyline
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.Read more

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.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jun 30, 2026
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Text
Keywords
psychological horror, female protagonist, abstract, surreal, philosophy
… All 20, story rich, psychology, surreal horror, lesbian, dark comedy, philosophical, girls love, women, melancholy, text-based, literary, lgbtq, lgbt, existential, lgbtqia

How it plays

Languages

  • Englishinterface, audio, subtitles
IGDB · recorded 7 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 7 Oct 2026