Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts

"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."

Camocipher12· June 30, 2026· Main 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.

Story

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.