Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts is an indie developed by Camocipher12, released 30 June 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts is
Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts is an indie game developed by Camocipher12 and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on renpy.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama, horror and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Melancholy Lake: Camocipher12 Shorts launched on 30 June 2026, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Palworld, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations and Denshattack!.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Palworld, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, Denshattack!.
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