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Sink Your Teeth Into Mental Healing With Vampire Therapist

Little Bat Games revealed Vampire Therapist this week, as you get to take personal growth to the dark side while "donating" blood.

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  • Explore healing in 'Vampire Therapist', an indie game where you're a vampire clinician.
  • Use real cognitive behavioral therapy tactics to aid vampiric clients with historical baggage.
  • Enjoy a blend of dark European goth settings above a club and comedic historical figures.
  • Engage with voiced characters and minigames, including mindful meditation and biting.

Indie game developer and publisher Little Bat Games has a new take on seeking out mental health on the dark side with Vampire Therapist. You'll take on the role of a therapist who, surprise, is also a vampire, as you'll try to help other vampires deal with centuries of trauma while also looking for some blood. Can you help them out in this narrative sim? You can learn more about it here with the announcement trailer, as the team is planning to release it sometime in Q2 2024.

Sink Your Teeth Into Mental Healing With Vampire Therapist
Credit: Little Bat Games

Vampire Therapist

Vampire Therapist is a narrative adventure in the vein (get it) of What We Do in the Shadows, the horror works of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and Horrible Histories where you play as a reformed bloodsucker helping other vampires find inner peace. Take on the role of Sam, a former rootin', tootin' Wild West gunslinger who escaped his day-to-day of murder and mayhem and realized, after a hundred years or so, that there's a whole lot more to unlife than blood, lace, and leather. Dragging himself from the quagmire of the Old West, Sam teams up with a 3000-year-old vampire living in Europe that's willing to show him the therapy ropes. Immerse yourself into this alternate world and meet your clients: self-hating vampires, agoraphobic social media addicts, supernatural narcissists, and victims of centuries-old capitalistic systems. You can't fix the world, but maybe you can help other vampires accept it. That is, if you can accept yourself first.

  • 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.
  • Singular Voice Acting: Vampire Therapist is fully-voiced, with many characters played by a single actor (Cyrus Nemati, Hades' Ares, Dionysus, and Theseus). It promises to be a singular experience.
  • 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.

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Gavin SheehanAbout Gavin Sheehan

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