Completely batty: Vampire Therapist reviewed

Looter-shooters, match-three games, dragons and spaceships… Sometimes you despair of video games doing the same thing again and again – and then a lone developer gets a severe bump on the head and produces something completely batty. 

Vampire Therapist is a comedic adventure-story therapy-simulation starring a vampire, except he’s also a cowboy, and he’s training to be a cognitive behavioural therapist in the backroom of a German nightclub under the tutelage of a 3,000-year-old bisexual vampire who was romantic with Marcus Aurelius back in the day. 

Our hero was a bad vamp in the Wild West for many years, you see, but he fell in with the Transcendentalists and learned to ‘walk a better path’. Now he hopes to persuade others to do the same. Vampires carry trauma, yeah? And they have cognitive distortions just like the rest of us, yeah? They might be vampire scientists addicted to synthetic plasma, or Renaissance patrons of the arts driven to despair by science-fiction blockbusters, but they can still grow and heal.