
Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage, decades of delusions and the odd bout of self-loathing with real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts and become a Vampire Therapist! Even vampires need a shoulder to cry on when a neck to bite just won’t do.
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Vampire Therapist is the BAFTA-nominated narrative adventure / therapy simulator in the vein (get it) of What We Do in the Shadows, Young Frankenstein, My Dinner with André, and Horrible Histories where you play as a reformed bloodsucker helping other vampires find inner peace.
This isn't your typical visual novel — featuring a fangtastic cast (such as Matthew Mercer, Sarah Grayson, and Cyrus Nemati), Vampire Therapist teaches real therapy concepts with a story that explores what it means to live, die, live again, and maybe even how to feel alive. Because even vampires deserve to love themselves.
Step into the boots of Sam, a reformed Wild West gunslinger turned vampire therapist. After centuries of bloodshed, Sam teams up with a 3000-year-old blood-sucking mentor in a moody German nightclub, to guide fellow vampires through the twists and turns of their immortal existence — offering them a chance at self-acceptance in a world that feels ever more alien.
From self-loathing vampires who’ve witnessed millennia of human folly to agoraphobic social media addicts, and even those grappling with the trauma of seeing too many awful streaming series (we’ve all been there), Sam’s got his work cut out for him. With each session, Sam will challenge cognitive distortions using real-life therapy techniques to help his clients reconnect with reality — even if reality has left them behind.
You can’t fix the world, but maybe you can help other vampires accept it.
That is, if you can accept yourself first.
"It's simultaneously earnest and winningly ridiculous...a labor of love, and an original one at that." — The Spectator
"Vampire Therapist is shaking a lot of things up in one very elegant bag." — Rock Paper Shotgun
"Every single character was memorable, and the thought of even more quirky clients for Sam to treat is exciting." — GameRant
"I came away from Vampire Therapist actively wanting to emotionally improve and be kinder to myself" - GamesRadar

Real Therapy Concepts: You’ll learn and apply real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts vetted by licensed therapists. By challenging client statements that contain “cognitive distortions”, you’ll help vampires see where their thoughts don’t match reality.
A Comedic Look Through History: Meet emotionally damaged vampires from ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, Tudor England, and the Bronze Age.
An All-Star Voice Cast: Featuring Matthew Mercer (Critical Role, Baldur's Gate 3), Francesca Meaux (Hades), Sarah Grayson (Gone Home, Hades II), Kylie Clark, and the game's creator, Cyrus Nemati (Hades, Pyre).
Unique Setting: Vampire Therapist merges cozy self-introspection with a dark European goth vibe. In fact, the whole thing takes above a goth club in Germany filled with willing necks to bite.
Minigames: Learn mindfulness meditation, safely and consensually bite sexy necks!
Peaceful Play: You can't lose in Vampire Therapist, and you'll always have a chance to learn and try again... just like life! If you're looking for bad endings or want to kill NPCs, Steam has many excellent offerings for you.
NOTE: Please read the content warning thoroughly before purchase. The game deals with mature and challenging themes that are not for the faint of heart.
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What is arthur morgan doing at the coven from interview with the vampire anyway
This is one of the most heartfelt games I have played. It encourages empathy, and you are most successful when developing real life skills: deep listening, critical thinking, future making. I use the therapeutic strategies in my day to day life. It's really good stuff.
I liked it a lot and looking forward to hopefully another game. The Characters are written all so diferently but still in a way that makes sense. It is a great game to just wind down and relax to.
I didn´t think that those characters would grow so much on me. Such a charming game, can´t wait for the next game
w0onderful game, i enjoy the characters a lot and it's very engaging.
The awards this game has scooped up are well-deserved! There is clearly a lot of work put into this game that takes self-reflection and self-improvement and makes it more accessible and digestible against the back drop of many different vampires with many different problems.
So far I love this game. It takes two of my interests (dark things and therapy) and mushes them into a wonderful game! The game play is nice and I like that there is not a way to "lose" as far as I can see. It is repetitive to get the cognitive distortions down but it is like a fun way to study for my masters! The one thing I think could be improved is the subtitles but they still get the point across.
I don't know if I could ever say enough about how much I like this game and how cool it is. My husband correctly identified this game as my new special interest -- after I finished playing the game for the first time! The characters are well-developed and interesting, and the history and cognitive distortion elements are well researched. The art is gorgeous! I made some fan art of some of the main cast because the character designs are so compelling. I imagine it's also difficult to make a game that is this story-dependent have a lot of replay value, but I think it does. I'm excited to replay the game, get some achievements I missed the first time, and do some of the sessions a little differently. The bonus content was also fun and healing to decompress after the hard-hitting ending! I am going to love replaying this game several times while I eagerly await the sequel.
Absolutely delightful adventure! While linear and without much of stakes (lol) as you can't really fail in this game, the game is really good! Voice acting is brilliant, story is interesting enough that you want to continue and characters, inspired partially by real people, showed great deal of research put behind them. And while at first some of the characters may seem shallow or tropey, as the time goes on, they show to be more and more complex and broken. The goth vibes are also off the charts, vampire aesthetic was nailed here, and main character, while often bringing comic relief by being somewhat clueless, is absolutely adorable and I absolutely love him. The game had some minor issues like minigames being rather weak/redundant, but these are skippable, and also some occasional bug here and there, but overall it was absolutely great experience! Recommended!
Excellent artstyle, fun mechanics. It trips me up a bit because often i feel there are multiple possible distortion interpretations to the same sentence, but the game acknowledges that fact.
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