Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts

30.06.2026
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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