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Submerged Lights

After traveling to a country town to move into the house he inherited, Andrew finds the town flooded. While wondering what to do, he spots a dim light coming from the flooded library, in the middle of the night. Investigating, he finds that it belongs to a small fairy, trapped inside of a lantern...

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Overlooked Option Visual Novels
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Overlooked Option Visual Novels
Release
June 20, 2026
42 days ago
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About the Game

"...I don't suppose any of the others are alive, anymore..."


"Lanterns would rarely leave the mine..."


After finding the town he was going to move into flooded, those words strike Andrew's heart: the words of a fairy, left behind and trapped in a lantern, on a bookshelf, in an abandoned, half-flooded library.


Submerged Lights is a 21,000-word visual novel about Andrew, the fairy he meets, and the mermaid the two of them come to know. As Andrew and the fairy grow closer to each other, the two of them form a loving bond...

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