Vampire Therapist

Vampire Therapist is a narrative adventure in which you play Sam, a reformed Wild West gunslinger turned vampire therapist. After centuries of bloodshed, Sam works with a 3,000-year-old vampire mentor in a German nightclub, helping other vampires confront their thoughts and seek self-acceptance. The game uses real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts, vetted by licensed therapists.

Sam’s clients

Sam’s clients include self-loathing vampires who have witnessed millennia of human folly, agoraphobic social media addicts and vampires traumatized by watching too many awful streaming series. In therapy sessions, you challenge statements that contain cognitive distortions, helping clients see where their thoughts do not match reality and reconnect with it. The story follows vampires’ attempts to live, die and live again in a world that feels increasingly alien.

Vampires through history

You meet emotionally damaged vampires from ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, Tudor England and the Bronze Age. The game’s setting combines self-reflection with a dark European goth atmosphere, above a German club filled with willing necks to bite.

Sessions and activities

Alongside therapy sessions, you can play minigames involving mindfulness meditation and consensual biting. You cannot lose, and you can always learn and try again.