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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.
Vampire Therapist is a visual novel, dark comedy and lgbtq+ game
developed and published by Little Bat Games.
Released on July 18th 2024 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 616 reviews of which 594 were positive and 22 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- 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
MacOS
- OS: OS 12 Monterey
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or Apple Silicon
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or SteamOS
- Processor: Quad-core 2GHz or faster 64-bit CPU
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia, AMD or Intel Graphics with support for Vulkan 1.2
- Storage: 16 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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So Should you buy this game? YES: -If you like visual novels. -If you like quirky characters, vampires and good voice acting. -If you are inquisitive and empathetic and can handle some drama. -If you wanted a grounded, more serious narrative. -If you feel unsure about the main character, consider giving the game 45-60 minutes and consider then. If that’s the case and the premise sounds good to you, get the game it’s absolutely worth it. NO If you plan to play it on the steam deck with a controller (TV Mode). You plan to play the game with a controller on the couch. You expect a flawless input experience but don’t use mouse&keyboard. You expect a weird-west story. Inputs are wonky, the game might bug out occasionally on them. Praiseworthy are the writing and storytelling. It’s a game which very well might linger in your mind after completion because it delivers on narrative experience. Go play it if you’re unsure. However don’t play with a controller, best play with mouse controls. Seriously play if the title sounded intriguing to you. The 90%+ positive reviews are there for a very good reason, if the title spoke to you you’re the audience for this game. At this point the review is over, I will fill the rest with some in-depth thoughts after playing. No great game is free of criticism. Main Character: Samuel Walls is a cowboy. Not the type of person which is feeding into the vampire or therapist fantasy. After playing the entire game he makes sense. I tapped into this trap from the marketing material, thought it’s more an unserious “haha” type of story and without information I connected this with “Weird West”. I was unsure if this now would get into pure pulp/ satire take or just poke fun – definitely not what THIS game should feel like for the first exposure and after experiencing it I am sad that this was my first misguided impression. The game is very aware of what it does, but the initial reaction on my behalf I also could observe in many people I showed the game since. Sam simply doesn’t sell the game very well. Not the fact that he is a cowboy, but the way he looks and sounds and how the firs timpression misses. The elephant in the room: Technology: The coding of the game is quite poor and there are many game-breaking bugs. Testing done didn’t really seem to Q&A beyond playing through the game. Once you plug in any gamepad you’re in for a rough run. A few of the issues I encountered: -Menu can be opened and operated when the initial black-screen comes on the screen, you already have full control. -Visual hints on gamepad input being to subtle (e.g. choosing buttons or save files). -Touch controls on deck more than once took another button / save game as the one I wanted. -No prevention of pressing two buttons at once, the game gets confused. Being unable to bring up the distortion menu or interact with it in a lot of occasions. Please do some professional in-depth Q&A the next time around. -There is even a truly game-breaking bug appearing about 2/3rds into the game when you unlock “Blaming” at this point you simply cannot progress with a gamepad. Honestly I was pretty close to turn that review for this bug initially negative, as it’s game-breaking in nature and the steam-deck rating says “playable”. Sorry if you can’t play through it full yon deck and you already encountered about 10 other bugs on the way there which either required loading or restarting the game, it’ snot what I expect. -On the controller you cannot open your journal book without interacting with the textboxes. Pretty big problem, which takes away a thing you might need, especially early on. -Wrong shaders applied in the book UI, at some point in the early story as I opened it in the first actor arc, the default pink material showed in it for information not uncovered yet. -In the first of the 3 additional post added free content drops, the layering in the office room is garbled and Andy will appear behind the window light effect. -In the menu running the credits will display them behind the additional content and therefore they are unreadable. Spoiler territory: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED THE GAME The Only point which bugs me about the narrative: “Disclosure”. So actually after every session Sam goes to the bar, and talks with the barkeeper about his clients. The BARKEEPER. At the bar! Man… what should I say. Sam doesn’t name his clients, but gives enough hints who it is and it’s a pretty big sticky point for me in the story which I really and truly don’t like about this game and me really uncomfortable. The point that disclosure later is brought up in the talks with Andy about some secret just puts the cherry. It’s hypocrisy. As nice as Sam is otherwise, how this could slip in a game which approaches the topic so seriously is totally beyond me. I get it from a design standpoint, but there had to be a better solution. 5 selected flaws/holes/opportunities/observations in the story I want to bring up: -Meddy is a vampire from the Bronze Age which is by now 1800 years old. Her client sheet say that much and the age is a constant point in the story. The problem: Bronze Age was from 2200BC to 800 BC. That’s a miss of a 1000-2000 years. Andy is from the Bronze Age! Meddy definitely not, this needs to be addressed and corrected. -Vampire blood stops ageing and heals/stops cancer but doesn’t regenerate bodies/bodyparts. Ok… that’s a bit weird I could agree on it if there would be a clean explanation. Especially weird since at some point Sam literally pulls out the gun and says then “the next months won’t be comfortable if I fire this” or something along those lines. So do vampires have human healing capabilities? What’s the internal logical explanation here? The game doesn’t explain it and the basic lore that vampires can regenerate are definitely explained away. But it simply left me scratching my head. Looking at Bert and the DLC characters, the is no clear thought out rule-set to this it seems. -In the actor arc, it’s brought up that the mother of him was an actress herself. Acting was seen as “dishonest” work for the longest time throughout western history, performed either by men (e.g. original Nosferatu movie), or if performed by women who got stigmatized and put in a specific social group for it. So it’s then even more interesting, that we get that flavour of this “dishonest” work reflected with feelings and everything back at us in the actors narrative and how he felt, but the whole impact it probably had on his mother gets conveniently clamped out and is not even talked about. This is what I call an insanely big missed historical opportunity. -Breathing/Meditating : vampires are dead. They don’t have a heartbeat. Do they breathe? Do they mediate with breathing? Again something which is overthinking the gameplay indiction, just a funny thought to consider. -German Grammar: in the DLC the crypt vampire first slings an insult, than uses either plural or what one would know as third person polite form. From a historical standpoint the derogatory term doesn’t fit, from a contemporary standpoint the second half of the sentence would look different. I understand the difficulty to get it right, but it’s a bit awkward if you know the language. A Personal Conclusion: I loved Vampire Therapist. It made me think and I engaged with the game on a deeper level than I engage with many stories of other games. Here is not only something to be said, but also humour and human experience. The love and will to make this game can be felt. That’s what I want to feel from the games I play. For me Vampire Therapist goes directly in the category “a bit flawed, but really cool concept worth to be loved for what it is”. I also want to congratulate the developer on finishing it and the many positives and well done things for one of their first games. I am up for part 2.
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This is not just a game, it is a therapy session in itself, if you can see it. Less than 30 minutes in, I realized I use labeling on myself and will now try to avoid doing it! Awesome!
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This game teaches you basic cognitive behavioral therapy skills and is sharply written and relevant to today. I'm better at recognizing my own cognitive distortions having played this. Well worth the time.
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It helped me a lot during my mental health struggles. It teaches you CBT in a gaming manner and is easy to understand. I also very much like the plot. I'm not great at writing reviews but I enjoyed playing this a lot and credit it partly to my healing process. I did get professional help on the side and would recommend doing explicitly that if you have mental health struggles, this game is not a fix for mental health problems but it does help you understanding how mental distortions work.
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Played this game with my husband for a date night, and it honestly has been surprisingly great for our relationship? We originally picked it up just because it seemed silly, but it actually describes CBT concepts really well and in a way that is easy to follow. Both of us were able to recognize what cognitive distortions we tend to use in our day-to-day by which ones we struggled to recognize in game. He struggled with emotional reasoning and personalization, while I struggled with black-and-white thinking and discounting the positive. This led to an actually deep and meaningful conversations on areas we could grow and how these distortions affect our relationship????? Came for Vampires. Stayed for the Therapy.
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Vampire Therapist is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
Vampire Therapist is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.
Vampire Therapist received 594 positive votes out of a total of 616 achieving a rating of 8.97.
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Vampire Therapist was developed and published by Little Bat Games.
Vampire Therapist is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Vampire Therapist is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Vampire Therapist is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Vampire Therapist is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Vampire Therapist. Explore additional content available for Vampire Therapist on Steam.
Vampire Therapist does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Vampire Therapist does not support Steam Remote Play.
Vampire Therapist is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Little Bat Games
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Little Bat Games
Release
18 Jul 2024
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