Vampire Therapist — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Get your therapy in more places! | 2026-03-02 | 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 |
| Vampire Therapist is 35% OFF, just in time for the holidays! | 2025-12-08 | 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 fo |
| Games That Change You | 2025-07-02 | 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 s |
| Vampire Therapist up for two more awards! | 2025-06-03 | 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 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 Therap |
| Vampire Therapist Digital Art Book Now Available | 2025-04-15 | 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. Although we didn't bring home the award, we brought something to share with you all! Art Book The Vampire Therapist art book is here! 97 pages of bloody good concept art and behind the sce |
| Vampire Therapist is up for a BAFTA! | 2025-03-04 | Greetings, our dear mortals! We had to share some exciting news with you: Vampire Therapist is officially nominated for a 2025 BAFTA in the Game Beyond Entertainment category! This is a tremendous honor for our tiny team (one developer and three artists), but we put a ton of research, love, and sexy jokes into our game, and it's extremely gratifying to have that love returned. This is some wind in our sails as we get into production on our second game, which we're excited to share more about soon. Thank you for all your support in helping us get here! Rest in peace, The Little Bat Games Team |
| Feb 9 Couples Therapy Patch | 2025-02-09 | Fixes many text and audio bugs in the DLC. Happy therapizing, dear mortals! |
| Vampire Therapist: Couples Therapy is ready for love! | 2025-02-07 | Howdy, cowpokes! We've got a juicy update for you today. Couples Therapy DLC Released We're delighted to announce the release of Vampire Therapist: Couples Therapy! Step back into the spurred boots of Sam Walls, now a vampire therapist extraordinaire, and help an undead couple find peace with one another. We're delighted to bring you more of the award-winning Vampire Therapist world and can't wait to you to sink your teeth into our new adventure! You'll meet two vampires who died fighting oppression with very different takes on what it means to struggle against entrenched political powers. This, of course, cannot be compared to any modern wor |
| Mac distortion bug fix | 2024-12-17 | Fixed a Unity bug for Mac that softlocked Drayne's 3rd session on distortion picking. All good now, enjoy! |
| Free Story Update: Fathoms Below | 2024-12-16 | Howdy pardners! We've got some fun stuff for ya this month. Free Story Update Today we're releasing the last free story update exploring the history of Andromachos, our mentor and hot vampire stereotype. What makes a vampire put meaningless murder behind them? What dark secrets can they learn when they don't need to breathe? And what was the deal with Sigmund Freud and his mother? Find out in this story update, and give an elder vampire an emotional release! I also fixed a bug where resolutions wouldn't save. I listen!! Awards 'n' Honors Little Bat Games is a hyper-tiny studio, with one solo dev and a team of contract artists, editors, and su |
| Vote for Vampire Therapist in the Steam Awards! | 2024-11-27 | Hey undead cowpokes! Vampire Therapist is live in the Steam Autumn Sale, so grab a copy for that friend who could use a cowboy vampire therapist's kind ear! We're also throwin' our cowboy hats in the ring for the Steam Awards in the Outstanding Story-Rich Game category! If our story meant somethin' to you, consider voting for Vampire Therapist. It'll count more than if you vote for that big blockbuster! See you on the Internet, little dogies! |
| The Minigames Patch | 2024-11-04 | Greetings, dear immortals! We're going on a much-needed vacation, but we've got a patch for you before we get our not-so-eternal rest. Minigames Overhaul We've added better tutorialization to our minigames, so now it should be easy to jump in and start biting some necks or having some deep thoughts. And if you're after a more relaxed experience with no minigames at all, you can just skip them and get right to the therapizing. Respectful Flirting We got some frequent feedback that our club goths were coming on a little strong. Vampire sexuality is a playful running joke in Vampire Therapist (consent is important!), but it was misread in this c |
| Hotfix Oct 29 | 2024-10-28 | There was an error where minigames would not load. It's fixed now, my sincere apologies! -Cyrus |
| "Couples Therapy" Is coming to Vampire Therapist + Free Content Update | 2024-10-28 | Two new clients with lots of problems What if "till death do us part" meant forever? Find out in Vampire Therapist: Couple Therapy DLC, coming soon to Steam! You'll get the chance to handle two clients at the same time in a story of revolutions, relationships, and leaving filthy glasses of blood overnight in the sink. Free Content Update You don't have to wait for new content, because the second free content update in our series exploring the history of 3000-year-old vampire Andromachos is out today! In "Spanish Nights", discover what happens when an ancient vampire when he visits Spain in 1492. Hint: there's a lot of blood involved. Baby vam |
| It's Curtains For You | 2024-09-30 | Greetings, children of the night! We've got a special new patch you all today. You know how Vampire Therapist has a reputation as "that really cool and funny game with the wonky curtains?" Well, now the curtains are fixed! Why did it take this long? Well, Vampire Therapist is largely a solo project and I'm not an experienced programmer. Apparently embedding video with transparency will make most computers melt. So now we use a green screen effect to render the curtains opening and closing instead. Neat! Further patch notes: Updates the curtains to use a greenscreen — should work much better on slower machines! Ensures players can't save durin |
| Free Content Update | 2024-09-16 | Greetings, immortal therapists! Today, we launch the first in a series of free content updates that will give you the chance to ease the mental burdens of Andromachos, our 3000-year-old vampire. These short sessions (30-60 minutes each) are our thank you to players who have purchased and completed Vampire Therapist. We think you're awesome and want to give you something good! The first session releasing today, "The Blood of Troy," will let you explore how Andromachos became a vampire. It involves a gigantic horse. Stay tuned for more soon! Rest in peace, Little Bat Games |
| Vampire Therapist Soundtrack Available Now | 2024-09-03 | Hey everyone! I've had a lot of interest in the Vampire Therapist soundtrack, so I talked to the licensors and got permission to make a playlist on Spotify! You can check it out now and take the sounds of Immernacht home. Enjoy! Link to Spotify |
| August 26 Hotfix | 2024-08-26 | Hey cowpokes! I'm back from Gamescom and back to work on Vampire Therapist. I'll have some exciting announcements in the next few weeks, but for now, a few bugfixes: Fixes the Slow Learner achievement (just start from Sam's second session and you can get it by the end of Meddy's second session) Fixes some music processing issues Fixes an issue where Sam imitates Andy accidentally Prepares for future content updates See y'all in therapy! |
| August 4 Hotfix - Listen to the music of the night | 2024-08-04 | It's Sunday night hotfix time for Vampire Therapist! Just a minor one today as I head to Leipzig for some reference gathering for an upcoming content update. Here are the changes: The audio state now saves so that music is at the right volume when loading (new saves only) Saving is disabled when picking distortions. Be brave, cowpokes! Fixes a distortion resetting issue in Edmund's first session Music should properly reset for all scenes Extra chances to bite Reinhard's neck after Edmund's third session See you in therapy! |
| Vampire Therapist August 2 Patch: "It's Curtains for you!" | 2024-08-02 | Howdy, healers of the unholy! We've got a big set of fixes for you today, so we'll call it a full on patch. Here are the changes: New tutorial for the meditation minigame and updated prompts Full curtain reimplementation that should make the experience even more theatrical than it already is Fixes loud sounds while picking distortions (I know, sorry) Updated content warning More consistent blood reactions when picking distortions Simplified the Slow Learner achievement - it can now be triggered after finishing all second client sessions. Adds notifications for saved checkpoints Cleanup of unnecessary settings buttons Makes music controls more |
| Reverting to July 21st build | 2024-07-25 | Apologies everyone, but unforeseen issues occurred with Mac and Linux builds, as well as savegames. I will need to spend more time on the curtain update to get it working properly. |
| Vampire Therapist Hotfix #4 — July 25, 2024 | 2024-07-25 | Uh. Hi. Me again. My new curtain implementation accidentally closed on Isabella in her second session, so I had to fix that. While I was at it, I fixed the bug where the buttons were too loud in the distortion picker. They are now properly attuned to the settings menu. Yay! Enjoy Vampire Therapist. :) |
| Vampire Therapist Hotfix #3 | 2024-07-25 | It's been a week since Vampire Therapist was launched, so what better time for a hotfix? Here are the changes for today: Re-engineers the curtain completely. It should be running much more smoothly without dropped frames. Updates the content warning to be more comprehensive and match the one on the store pages Makes save game screen look a little cleaner. Removes unneeded buttons in settings. Fixes a mismatched line in Meddy's first session. Fixes typo in Isabella's second session. Addresses historical anachronism in Meddy's file. Fixes Meddy and Sam's accidental ventriloquism act in her fourth session. Slight intro retiming. Fixes Panoptibel |
| Vampire Therapist July 21 Hotfix 2 | 2024-07-21 | Hotfix #2 is now live for Vampire Therapist on all platforms and stores! Thank you for your bug reports and patience. I do want you to have the best therapy experience possible. Here are the fixes today: Fixes Lord Luridus covering up Andy. Fixes voice boo-boo in Edmund's second session. Fixes incorrect answer in Edmund's fourth session. Fixes incorrect answer in Edmund's fifth session. Fixes "Bloodsuckin' Buckaroo" achievement. Fixes stuck curtain after Sam's fifth session. Fixes typo in Meddy's first session. Curtain performance should be much improved. That's it for this time! More technical improvements will be coming in the next few week |
| July 19 — Hotfix #1 | 2024-07-19 | Hotfix #1 has just been set live! Here are the fixes: * Missing voice lines re-added during Maxi and Reinhard neck sessions. * Fixes scene restart during Drayne's second session (new voiceover!). * Fixes scene restart during Edmund's second session. * Fixed Crimson line after Drayne's third session. * Fixed Isabella line in Isabella's third session. * Fixes Meddy line during Meddy's third session. * Fixes Sam line in Sam's fourth session. * Fixes scene restart during Edmund's fourth session. * Fixes text error during Sam's poetry reading. * Fixes Ciaran's veins and arteries. * Tweaks Neckbiter game to ensure proper restarts. Huge thanks to al |
| 🦇 SteamNext Fest is here, mortal compadres! 🧛🏾♀️ 🤠 | 2024-06-10 | It's that excitin' time again – Next Fest is here! From now until June 17, a whole bunch of demos are live on Steam, accompanied by hundreds of streams, developer specials, and so much more. This is what makes PC gaming great, and we're honored to be a part of it! So, download our demo and enjoy your first therapist sessions! Your patients are just waiting to give you a hard time, but you can handle it, cowpoke. If you ain't sold on playing the demo yet, check out this review from The Fandomentals, and see PCGamesN Nine Essential NextFest Demos. We'll be running broadcasts from the streaming community throughout the event, and creative direct |
| Interview with the Vampire Developer: Live Broadcast #2 | 2024-06-10 | Enter the world of Vampire Therapist with its creator, writer and voice actor Cyrus Nemati, as he plays the NextFest demo of this hilarious and heartfelt analyze-'em'-up! Ask questions, watch sexy vampires, or just have a good time listening to our incredible cast, including Matthew Mercer, Sarah Grayson, Francesca Meaux, and Kylie Clark. Vampire Therapist was created in conjunction with licensed therapists and acclaimed historians, and uses real therapy principles. It's not just sexy, blood-drinkin' fun... you'll learn something along the way. It'll be a bloody good time! |
| Interview with the Vampire Developer: Live Broadcast | 2024-06-06 | Enter the world of Vampire Therapist with its creator, writer and voice actor Cyrus Nemati, as he plays the NextFest demo of this hilarious and heartfelt analyze-'em'-up! Ask questions, watch sexy vampires, or just have a good time listening to our incredible cast, including Matthew Mercer, Sarah Grayson, Francesca Meaux, and Kylie Clark. Vampire Therapist was created in conjunction with licensed therapists and acclaimed historians, and uses real therapy principles. It's not just sexy, blood-drinkin' fun... you'll learn something along the way. It'll be a bloody good time! |
| Vampire Therapist Cast Announcement, Demo Release and New Trailer | 2024-06-04 | Good news, dear mortals! The Nextfest demo for Vampire Therapist is now live, and that's only the beginning of the bloody exciting news. We've got a special one for you today! In creating a game where vampires feel all the feelings, we needed a cast of actors with both strong comedic chops and the ability to show some deep, dark emotions, and we attracted the best of the best. Check out our new trailer! Joining the cast are: Cyrus Nemati (Hades/Pyre) Francesca Meaux (Hades) Sarah Grayson (Gone Home, Hades II) Introducing Kylie Clark as Isabella d'Este and Matthew Mercer (Critical Role, your favorite video games) We're very excited to reveal t |
| AMA with the Vampire | 2024-05-24 | We're hard at work polishing up the demo of Vampire Therapist to premiere at Steam NextFest, but in the meantime, we've arranged something very special. Andromachos is our 3000-year-old vampire therapist in residence, and he's taking questions from mortals on, well, anything. Andromachos is older than many deities, so he's seen the world change a lot in his time. With Dracula Day coming up, we got him to emerge from his coffin to answer questions from mortals about history, the challenges of being undead, and even vampire therapy.* Ask questions on X/Twitter by Tuesday, May 28, and Andromachos will respond in video format. *Vampire therapy is |