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Content notice: Vampire Therapist explores sensitive and potentially triggering topics in a historical context, such as war, abuse, sexual oppression, suicidal ideation, religion, and addiction. Discussions of these events may be uncomfortable or upsetting for some readers. Vampire Therapist does not take a dismissive or trivializing approach to these topics, but rather seeks to comment on them in a way that is engaging, thought-provoking, and often humorous as a way to process trauma. However, due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered, some readers may find the content difficult to process. If you have a history of trauma related to any of these topics, please approach Vampire Therapist with caution and take care of yourself. Naturally, a game about vampires will also involve blood and sexual themes (though nothing explicit is shown). Strong language is also present. If you have any personal concerns about the content of Vampire Therapist, we encourage you to seek the advice of a mental health professional or support group before playing.
Very Positive — 94% positive (1,018 reviews) · 34 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
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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Indie, Simulation · 2024 · More £5 - £15 games
Guide vampires through emotional struggles as a Vampire Therapist in this unique indie simulation. Prepare to delve into decades of complex emotions and cognitive behavioral therapy concepts in Little Bat Games' 2024 release.
About this game
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.
What Critics Are Saying:
"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.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Quad-core 2GHz or faster 64-bit CPU
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX® 11 compatible
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 16 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Recommended
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Get your therapy in more places!
Greetings, dear mortals,We've been quietly working on our game, but we've got some fun updates for you!Sofa So GoodOne of the most important tools in a vampire therapist's toolbox is the couch itself. Are we to receive therapy in our coffins? Shall we sit in chairs meant for mortal posteriors? No! The butts of the undead deserve better, which is why you can now play Vampire Therapist right from your couch!Vampire Therapist is now available on the Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and all those weird Xboxes with funny names. You can find the links on our new website at littlebat.games, which has information on some other games we're working on, like Kurzgesagt and Toukana's Star Birds!Tavern Talkin'One of our more exciting pieces of news is that we've partnered with our dear friends at Gentle Troll Entertainment on their new title, Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker. Their lovely team was a great help to us when we launched Vampire Therapist, and now our bonds grow even stronger. If you pick up Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker when it launches and you own Vampire Therapist on Steam, you'll find you'll get a little something extra to decorate your tavern with... the sign for our own beloved tavern, Immernacht!There are two more days to be a part of the Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker Kickstarter campaign, so head on over there right now, buckaroos!Who's Better Than Us?We're quietly working on our next game examining the dark tendencies of the hyper rich. It's full of history, comedy, and even a pet cyber rat!If you've ever wanted to meet someone with more money than even the richest vampire and lie right in their horrible faces, have we got the game for you. Remember the lies you've told and steal from the rich, or don't and let them continue to walk all over us for all eternity. Wishlist Better Than Us now!Read full article on Community Announcements (LittleBatGames-Cyrus)AnnouncementsOfficial
Vampire Therapist is 35% OFF, just in time for the holidays!
The holidays mean time off, cozy nights in, and finally working through that growing game backlog… meaning it’s the perfect moment to grab Vampire Therapist at 35% off as part of the Choose Wisely Steam Festival. If you’ve been waiting for a sign to dive in, consider this a very on-the-nose one.It’s also a great chance to pick it up for a friend who loves sharp writing, stellar voice acting, and, you know… BAFTA-nominated things. Nothing says “happy holidays” like helping someone guide ancient immortals through their emotional baggage.Just remember: Sam may be great at helping vampires find themselves, but he is absolutely not a substitute for your actual therapist. Sale runs for a limited time, go grab it while the fangs are fresh. And in case you missed it, Little Bat Games just announced its follow-up to Vampire Therapist: Better Than Us! It’s a social stealth game where you’ll outsmart and deceive the world’s ultra wealthy with nothing but charm and weaponized misinformation.Intrigued? Make sure you wishlist it to stay up to date on EVERYTHING leading up to its launch sometime in 2026!Read full article on Community Announcements (LittleBatGames-Cyrus)AnnouncementsOfficial
Games That Change You
Dearest mortals, We just got back from the Games for Change Awards, and we couldn't be more delighted to share that not only did we take home the award for Best in Health and Wellness, our dear friends at Torpor Games also took home the Best in Civics award! Here in Berlin, we're lucky enough to make games that challenge, which is why we want to direct you to another game where you'll learn more about the world around you. Now that you’ve figured yourself out in Vampire Therapist, solving geopolitical issues should be as easy as blood pie! Thankfully our friends at fellow Berlin studio Torpor Games have got just the sort of in-depth, clever sort of game you’re into! After all, aren't politicians just people in severe psychological distress?If you’ve ever craved a story full of complex characters and tough choices where every decision truly matters, Suzerain is definitely the game to test your moral compass. In the original campaign, you step into the shoes of President Anton Rayne, navigating the stormy waters of Sordland’s fragile democracy: think Cold War tensions, economic disaster, and the exact sprinkle of good ol’ corruption, enough to turn your cabinet meetings into passive-aggressive showdowns. With the award-winning Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia, their first DLC, Torpor Games raises the stakes (not the wooden ones). This time you rule as King Romus Toras, newly crowned leader of the Kingdom of Rizia, who must maintain power amidst anti-monarchist uprising and court gossip. So if you need a break from the therapist’s couch, why not take a detour into the presidential office or the throne room? Just... don’t expect inner peace there either. Oh, did we mention all our games are on sale right now? Buy a friend a copy and spark some interesting conversations!Until next time, children of the night! Rest in peace, The Little Bat Games TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (LittleBatGames-Cyrus)AnnouncementsOfficial
Vampire Therapist up for two more awards!
Greetings dear mortals, Just a mini-update from your friends at Little Bat Games! We've been having an exciting and overwhelming awards season. It's incredible to see the critical response to Vampire Therapist and has given us a lot of confidence to double down on our game development process here. Awards Season Highlights {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44838963/e5213c145bb5ff116d996d5e2046aa8e9017ef05.jpg Just a few weeks ago, we picked up the German Computer Games Prize for Best Story during a wild awards show night. It turns out that the German game development scene is as wacky as we are! Now we're up for a Games for Change award in the Health & Wellness category. Players have been telling us how meaningful Vampire Therapist has been for them, and we're thrilled we get to show our stuff to a different crowd. The awards will be streamed on June 26th from the Parsons School of Design in New York. Check out the stream at 6:30pm ET if you'd like to follow along ! Then on the 9th of July, we'll be up for a Develop:Star award for Best Original IP! We like our IP quite well and if someone from Netflix would like to get in touch, we'll talk. If you missed it, we also picked up a Qweerty Queer Gaming Excellence Award! We're absolutely honored that our message of self-acceptance was seen. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44838963/9e4e0a6d7322248cce9e27a245f3b93740a17e7c.jpg Okay, okay, I don't care about stupid awards Geez, okay, we just wanted to share some moments that made us proud, but okay, we get it. We have gone into production on our next game and we couldn't be more excited! This is the fun part for us: making blisteringly unique characters, talking to the top academics in the world, and finding the perfect voices are what we've been focusing on. We're not ready to reveal what we're up to yet, but you can expect the same viciously playful humor and historical psychology approach. And there will be a returning client from Vampire Therapist. It's not Edmund. Thank you all for supporting us ...Read full article on Community Announcements (LittleBatGames-Cyrus)AnnouncementsOfficial
Vampire Therapist Digital Art Book Now Available
Dearest mortals, We just got back from our trip to the BAFTAs last week, which was quite a surprise for a small game like ours! Seeing our little Vampire Therapist up there with excellent titles like Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Kind Words 2, Senua's Saga 2, Botany Manor, and Tetris Forever will stick with us for a while, and we met some incredible people. Our art director even got to take a picture with Astarion, but she's German so we won't share her pics here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44838963/69db3efcb6d2e9980e3b7bde135997c1f1d8ecf3.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44838963/ea5b381d4d0c774b8d2c3f557583d0f8022be9da.jpg Although we didn't bring home the award, we brought something to share with you all! Art Book {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44838963/7e7aac6610440fd833b5433aa8255f34693856fc.png The Vampire Therapist art book is here! 97 pages of bloody good concept art and behind the scenes tidbits from the Little Bat Games team. We're honored people care enough to even want something like this, and we're eternally grateful for your support. Literally. What's Next? We're hard at work on our next game already. It's sure to be something entirely unexpected, but with the same focus on comedy and history you've come to expect from us. We're uncovering old mysteries, and have enlisted the help of top academics from around the world to tell our next tale. While in England for the BAFTAs, we stopped over at Oxford to meet one of them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44838963/0b8aba7bb65478a3431035e0ef3a3d4d4a2e7aa7.png Expect an announcement from us Real Soon. Until then, don't let the Draculas bite! Rest in peace, The Little Bat Games TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (LittleBatGames-Cyrus)
