#Andromachos

[kymsys]

✨teaching lesson✨ I've been working on a game called "Vampire Therapist" for a little while now and I'm so excited ITS AVAILABLE ON STEAM AND GOG NOW 😩🙏 our little team has put so much love and effort into this visual novel type indie game, so if you like a cowboy vampire to become a therapist and treat other vampires..AND visual novel type games? this is for you!! if you're interested, pls try it out, it would mean the world to us 🥰

(also yes we are aware of bugs and continuesly try to fix them and improve the game 🙏) DISCLAIMER: this is purely shipping art, no such thing happens in the game. and what happens in the kink room stays in the kink room 👀. (yes there is a kink room and yes there is biting. THIS actually is true.)

[proxysart]

Playing the visual novel Vampire Therapist and Andromachos is drop dead sexy. 😤💗

[sinfulpetgirlrd]

These two men are my new obsession lol. I honestly can't descide who I love more.

[indiegamesource]

Andromachos' relationship with Marcus Aurelius | Vampire Therapist (2024)

[nazhrim]

I'm 60 minutes into playing Vampire Therapist.

You play as a vampire cowboy

Was immediately hit on by sexy goth germans

Game is full of sex positivity

Mentor character is a hot daddy named Andromachus

The gameplay concept is really interesting

I think I'm being tricked into learning actual things about my own mental health

You should be checking this game out. You ever play a game and you just know it's going to be a hit with the girls and the queers? Yeah. This game oozes personality. Target audience reached, it's me, I'm the target audience.

[littlebatgames]

The voices of Vampire Therapist

Hi Tumblr! I'm Cyrus Nemati, creative director at Little Bat Games, where we're making Vampire Therapist. You might know me as a voice actor. I voiced Theseus, Dionysus, and Ares in Hades, so as you might imagine, voices are my thing.

When I started designing Vampire Therapist, I wanted to create characters not only had deep narrative depth, but that would be challenging and rewarding to voice. I voice protagonist Sam Walls and his mentor, Andromachos. Writing a game about therapy is really tricky, so being able to jump in revoice lines was a huge benefit for the game!

I also voice two of the therapy clients in the game, Dr. Drayne and Edmund Kean. Dr. Drayne is the kind of challenge any actor delights in, having three very distinct characterizations that have to seem natural, whereas Edmund Kean is the Shakespearean actor of his time.

As much as I'd like to save money, I couldn't voice all characters in the game, but I'm very picky about voices and needed a cast of the absolute best I could find. So I got them.

If you've played Hades 2, you've heard Sarah Grayson or Selene. Or maybe you know her from Gone Home or Tacoma? But I needed her ability to alternate between the very light and the very dark for murderous vampire content creator Meddy.

To play Isabella d'Este, a real historical figure and esteemed patron of the arts during the Renaissance, I needed someone with a sense of the theatrical and some excellent comic timing. For that, I turned to a very old friend, Kylie Clark, who comes much more from the theatre tradition that video games... which she doesn't play at all. Until Vampire Therapist!

For our fabulous goth bartender, Crimson, I needed the epitome of cool, sexy, and tantalizingly mysterious. You might know Francesca Meaux as Eurydice from Hades, but she went to some unexpected places to play Crimson!

I did say I wanted the best of the best, right? Vampire Therapist is a super low-budget indie, but if I'm going to fill a club with quirky, sexy goths, I need range, and for that, I got Matthew Mercer. Yeah, that Matthew Mercer. The Critical Role one. The one from Baldur's Gate 3. The one from all your favorite video games. How could I do less? He's playing Reinhard the sexy goth and Ciaran the goth priest in Vampire Therapist.

You can see the work we've put into every aspect of Vampire Therapist. I think you're going to find that it's unlike any game you've ever played.

It'll be out on July 18th, and you can wishlist it on Steam now!

And on GOG!

[nomnomroko]

and now for something silly my favorite hands I did for the game :'D plus test Andromachos's hand, this is where I peaked rip

[rpgchoices]

Sometimes I really want to read a short summary of what to expect from a game with a very particular description that CATER to my OWN SPECIFIC interests, so here we go.

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what to expect from VAMPIRE THERAPIST

Visual novel and completely voiced, relatively short game

Doesn't really have a plot

The gameplay is only choosing dialogue options and labelling statements (cognitive distorsions) like a therapist

There are a few minigames (clicking on thoughts, choosing a vein to drink from in some people)

The developers consulted real therapists to create the game

You play as Sam, an American vampire who wants to become a therapist for vampires and moves to Germany to learn from Andromachos

Most characters are bisexual/pansexual (the protagonist also talks about his previous male lover)

Sam will be able to choose what kind of thinking patterns his clients are doing

Before every session (a part from the first) you will have to select the main cognitive distorsions the clients use and those are the ones you will be able to work on

Andromachos will help you if you choose the wrong option

After each therapy you will have some extra short scenes in the bar to recap the day and learn more about Crimson (Andromachos' partner) and Andromachos

There are four clients in total, all with different problems and you will see them multiple times with more cognitive distortions being added

The sequence is: Client 1, night, Clien 2, night, Client 3, night, Client 4, night, a session about Sam with new cognitive distorsions to learn

These cycles are repeated multiple times while you work through Sam's past and your clients

I have not played multiple times but I am pretty sure you can change the outcome of the clients' therapist journey by choosing different cognitive distorsions before each session

The game ends with Andromachos helping Sam through some problems of his own

plot? There's not really a plot gameplay? visual novel characters? There are 6 main characters in the game and their stories are the main focus of the game (characters over plot). In particular the 4 clients. sadness level? medium low

[janzoo]

Quick and Simple Vampire Therapist Demo Review

Hi folks! I played the demo for Vampire Therapist the other day. Here's the basics and my thoughts/a few screencaps - spoilers within!

The first thing the game shows you is a message saying that while the developers worked with therapists, the game is not a replacement for actual therapy.

TL;DR premise: you are a vampire cowboy (Sam Walls) who wants to help other vampires with their centuries of baggage and trauma via Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which he partially figured on his own, and learns the rest from an established vampire therapist (Andromachos).

The demo plays through the first appointments with your first two clients.

It's a visual novel which seems to have some simple mini-games here and there, mainly for (consensual) neck biting. You listen to the client speak, and when prompted, you guess at which cognitive distortions they're falling into (like "Should Statements" or "Disqualifying Positives"). Here's a video from the game studio re: cognitive distortions. You cannot get a wrong answer; if you guess incorrectly, Andromachos telepathically hints you towards the correct answer and you get to try again.

There is no gruesome content/visuals so far. There's a blood splatter visual/sound effect when you get a correct answer, but it's very brief. When you drink blood, you get the neck biting mini-game where you line up a little moving set of fangs over blood vessels in the neck; then it cuts to the humans you drank from saying how great that was but you don't see them, or any blood.

It's quite suggestive. Andromachos's speaks openly and casually of his sex life, there's references to pegging, the goths get real horny about being bitten...Yeah this is not for kids. Adjust your expectations accordingly.

From what I know of CBT (mainly as someone receiving it), the gameplay seems to use very simplified versions of the concepts. Again, not a replacement for actual therapy - but also not a bad place to start, either. I already feel myself thinking of the game system in combination with what my therapist and I have talked about. Sam is becoming my inner good vibes voice - "Hey now, you're disqualifyin' the positives. You did real well, embrace it. :)"

IMO Sam is a very sincere and relatable character in that he's made some big mistakes but he's just trying to do better and help others. That's true of all of us, but we keep thinking that our mistakes are somehow especially terrible, or that any good we do now will always be overshadowed by the bad we did. And so on and so forth. Also, he's a rootin'-tootin' American cowboy now operating out of a German goth nightclub and his struggles with languages other than English is portrayed amusingly lmao.

So yeah, I really enjoyed the experience so far, and I look forward to playing the game proper once it comes out. Fangs for reading, har har har.

Here have some random screenshots with descriptions in the alt text. (This is my first attempt at adding alt text.)

[angelsanctuarys]

tagged by @voydhymn thank you ♡

i tag @fleshmannequin @amygdalae @numinous-scribe @faelynny @bloodcathedrals @andromachos @rawbones @sainte-melasse

[kismetrose]

Vampire Therapist FTW

I don't tend to buy games/visual novels when they're first released and this week was an expensive one for me, but I grabbed this little gem as a consolation prize. I've missed visual novels and I was instantly interested in its premise. I mean, "Vampire Therapist" says so much so quickly!

Now, I haven't finished it yet, but I have had a delightful time with it thus far. The main character, Sam Walls the vampire cowboy, is an adorable cinnamon roll who wants to help other vampires thrive. His new vampire mentor, Andromachos, is as patient and civilized as you could hope an ancient vampire could be. Each of the patients is unique, and some of them are historic figures.

The view on vampires, their psychology, and their issues is interesting. One thing I appreciate is that the game goes out of its way to show how philosophies, religious beliefs, and other modes of thought influence their worldviews, even many years after those modes of thoughts dwindled in popularity. It reinforces how they are products of older times.

I've become partial to the term "bloodfather/mother/parent" for those who turn others into vampires; I automatically liked it better than V:tM's "sire."

You learn various cognitive distortions and identify them in the statements your patients make; this is the heart of the game experience. I've found myself hearing Sam in my head, identifying them IRL since I started playing, which has added an extra layer of amusement.

I haven't done multiple playthroughs yet so I haven't seen if your choices make much of a difference. There have been some moments when it's clear that it doesn't matter what you choose - you'll either have to go through all the options or you'll go through until you choose the right one. Either way, there doesn't seem to be much difference in how others respond. After a certain point in the patient-cowboy therapist exchange, you don't get many choices; Sam just proceeds to wrap up with his observations and advice.

This has been a little disappointing, since it may make replaying it less satisfying, but it's also reduced the need to save-scum for a persistent little perfectionist like me.

The art is beautiful and Western-style, which I prefer. The entire thing is voiced by good voice actors in a variety of accents which I have had no trouble understanding; having so much voiced is a special treat!

The music is good, but one thing that might bother some of folks is that the music from the club runs rather continuously beneath most conversations. If you find it distracting, you may have to turn it off.

I hope to say more later, but I thought I should put in a good word now. $15 ain't a lot but can be a lot to an indie game company, and buzz can be important for something newly released. If this sounds like it's your bag, there's no harm in grabbing it. You might even learn some things that'll be of use to you.

And yes, Matt Mercer does voice a couple of characters. That wasn't a main draw for me, but I know it is for some folks.

[cfo-of-antifa]

tagged by @bigdaddy-whitephobia 💕

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

tagging @anamiques @mossymagpie @karmajam @mysteriouspercentage @andromachos :3

[linuxgamenews]

Immerse Yourself in the Gothic World of Vampire Therapist

Vampire Therapist dark story adventure game launches now on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. Thanks to the creative minds at Little Bat Games. Available now on Steam and GOG with 100% Positive reviews. Ever wonder what the undead worry about? How they handle immortality? And what would a 3,000-year-old vampire do besides hang out in a gothic nightclub in Europe? These burning questions and more get answered in the Vampire Therapist dark adventure. This fresh new Linux game is the brainchild of Cyrus Nemati, who also stars in it. Joining him are voice actors like Matt Mercer from Critical Role. There is also Sarah Grayson from Hades 2, Francesca Meaux from Hades, and newcomer Kylie Clark. They bring a bunch of eccentric vampires to life in a way that’s both hilarious and heartfelt. Launching the dark story adventure of Vampire Therapist puts you in the boots of Sam. A cowboy from the Old West looking to change his murderous ways and reconnect with his soul. On his quest for answers about his immortality, Sam travels to Europe and meets Andromachos, a reformed assassin, warrior, and undead heartthrob. Under Andromachos's (bat)wing, Sam learns that being dead doesn’t mean you can't live.

Vampire Therapist dark story Launch Trailer

Together, they help other blood-sucking immortals realize they can still enjoy life, even in undeath. And the best part? The therapy techniques used in the game are designed with the help of real licensed therapists, giving it an authentic and meaningful touch.

Real Therapy Concepts: This teaches and applies real cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts. You'll also challenge vampire clients' statements filled with "cognitive distortions." Due to help them see where their thoughts are out of whack.

A Comedic Journey Through History: You'll meet emotionally damaged vampires from ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, Tudor England, and the Bronze Age. Inspired by shows like What We Do in the Shadows and Horrible Histories. The title also mixes comedy with deep, introspective themes and heartfelt characters.

An All-Star Voice Cast: The features some top-notch voice talent. Cyrus Nemati (Hades, Pyre) and Francesca Meaux (Hades). Sarah Grayson (Gone Home, Hades II), Kylie Clark, and Matthew Mercer (Critical Role, Baldur's Gate 3) all lend their voices to the cast.

Unique Setting: Vampire Therapist blends cozy self-introspection with a dark European goth vibe. The whole adventure takes place above a goth club in Germany. Complete with plenty of willing necks to bite!

Fun Minigames: Learn mindfulness meditation and safely, consensually bite some sexy necks in engaging minigames.

Created with love by solo developer Cyrus Nemati, Vampire Therapist promises a unique journey through the dark psychology of vampirism. Due to leave you changed forever.

Why You Should Play

Vampire Therapist isn’t just another dark adventure title. It’s also a mix of therapy and fun, all wrapped in a quirky, undead package. It offers a hilarious and touching look at what it means to be immortal and emotionally complex. Whether you're into deep stories or just looking for a laugh, this title has something for you. Plus, the CBT techniques you’ll learn might even help you in real life! So, if you're ready to explore the minds of ancient vampires, laugh at their antics, and maybe even learn a thing or two about your own thoughts. So jump in, help some vampires, and have a blast! Get ready to sink your teeth into Vampire Therapist, the dark story adventure launches on Steam and GOG. Priced at $14.99 USD / £12.79 / 14,79€. Along with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.

[mistytpednaem]

as promised, a Different sort of corpsefriend therapy liveblog post. will this even be entertaining?? i don't know but i am Committed to it

there shall be NO serious discussion of vampire lore here. unless there is. who knows, I still have a few hours of game left

whoa that's a bold statement--

oh right nvm we're learning CBT again

as a bat or on a horse...

BUT WHO TAUGHT THAT TO SAM

this is just how people in europe talk about football tbqh

i wonder how andromachos would feel about hetalia...

I can't recall if Andy outright confirmed he was from Greece before or if I was just getting it from his name but a) it's nice to see it reconfirmed and b) this made me go on a brief tangent @ Alex about how it makes sense u see because Andromachos is an ancient vampire, and some of the oldest legends on record that feature creatures somewhat similar to vampires come from Greece, and--

me when I'm enjoying this game and it makes me point out something that seems frankly unnecessary to point out

you know sometimes I'm like "yeah I was raised Catholic but it's not really part of my IDENTITY like sure I had some very particular experiences and I struggle with guilt but I'm functionally agnostic now" but when andromachos came out swinging with this i was unable to progress for a solid 5 minutes

no one talks about jesus christ's career 😔

ANOTHER strong line for a social media bio tbqh

see I feel like this is a strong case for giving this distortion a funny vampire name too, but then again i feel like they should all have funny names, so

sam said "ok boomer" and i was so stunned i didn't even think to screenshot it

PREACH IT ANDROMACHOS!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh right i grabbed this with like a note to myself to look up this guy. let's see

oh. oh there is immediately so much to reflect on here

huh. i mean it kind of sounds like he didn't get what he WANTED-- right ok vampires

don't let him hear you say that, you'll make him WORSE

looks like there's still room to learn a couple more distortions... strangely comforting. despite all my reservations i have been enjoying myself for the most part

man's still BEGGING us to cure his drug addiction even though he literally won't sleep without it

just because i'm avoiding posting overt spoilers doesn't mean i can't feature poetry out of context

STEREOTYPE??

BANNED! THIS GAME IS BANNED!!! I NO LONGER ACCEPT THIS PORTRAYAL OF VAMPIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stares at the camera. sure thing buddy

ONLY 30 IMAGES ALLOWED PER POST SO. PART 2 INCOMING??? wait i can save this as a draft and post one right after the other. hohoho. delightfully devilish, naem

[sirpeppersto]

tagged by @c-130jsuperhercules :D i haven't done one of these in a while and it's the first one on this blog oh boy

my favorite color is blue, i really like strong blues like royal blue or pthalo blue. always a big fan of blue

last song: rush by troye sivan. we are GAY

currently reading: Time Enough For Love by Robert A Heinlein, ive been listening to the audiobook here and there but not so much recently. im about a third of the way through, it's really good. its the second heinlein book ive read, and i really like his take on sci-fi, and i love how he writes

currently watching: samurai jack 😎 i watched all of it back in 2018(? maybe 2017) and i hadnt watched it since, but my fiance wanted to rewatch it bc he hasnt watched every episode. we're almost done with it, and after that we're gonna finish the other shows we're watching. we will finish mr. robot some day lol

currently craving: i want to eat a big cake so bad rn. i for real almost doordashed cake last night but I've been with my friends since yesterday afternoon and i don't want to buy cake for everyone lol. someone get me a cake PLEASE

coffee or tea: honestly......i think im becoming more of a coffee person now. i used to be super into drinking tea and i still drink tea pretty often, but i love coffee. funny think is my friends brought me a drink from a local coffee place just now and instead of getting coffee or tea i got an energy drink 💀 the last 24 hours have taken a toll on my body lol

I'm gonna tag @andromachos @aldercaps @brbananas @silenthill @crj-200 @beesnutz uhhhhhhh and anyone else who wants to do it :) my energy drink is not helping i need a nap big time

[bbboar]

played the demo for Vampire Therapist and i DEFINITELY will be buying the full game when its out.

Here is a random list of thoughts

I loooove the character designs and how they pay homage to vampire tropes

Voice acting is so so good. All the performances are super strong.

You already have my heart when you include a gothic vampire nightclub that blasts techno music

I need to know if Sam (the protag) is ace or a prude or repressed or multiple of the above. Whenever the conversation veers to romance or sex he gets flustered and im like 👁️👁️ are you like me?

Maxi and Reinhardt most unapologetically horny goth bisexual couple ever. They are SO fun! Godspeed old man fuckers

Super pleasantly surprised Andromachos is actually pronounced correctly! (except by Sam haha).I wasnt sure they'd do that. Andy's accent is more Transylvanian than Greek but tbh idc, hes a play off of Dracula obviously, so i get it.

Speaking of. Can we smooch him? Bcs uhhh.................Hes hot AND emotionally intelligent AND a vampire. Thats the whole package

Me 🤝 Sam discounting the positive

Its SOOO funny to me that they make fun of Sam for being American and also a prude. This game rly did say American oppression 👊👊💥

That being said i call bullshit on the German goths 1)knowing about Eisenhower, 2) knowing hes on the US dollar and 3)knowing how he looks enough to have an opinion. Like, come on.

The demo is actually way longer than i expected it to be! A pleasant surprise