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Over the decades, gaming has expanded in ways people could never have imagined, but one genre that has continued to stand the test of time while still growing is the action-adventure genre.

For almost as long as there have been video games, action-adventure games and their real-time action, puzzles, and exploration have intrigued gamers all over the world. While we could spend years talking about our favorite ones, today, we wanted to focus on one that is close to our hearts – Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.



With the game coming to GOG.COM during our Anniversary event, we wanted to take a trip down memory lane to look at what made this game so spectacular.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain tells an epic story
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain takes place in Nosgoth, a fantasy world filled with humans and vampires. In this world, pillars are tied to the literal health of the world. The Pillars of Nosgoth are protected by humans, but prior to your introduction to the world, some bad things (to put it mildly) have happened, and now vampires are being hunted down.

Of course, the remaining vampires didn’t like this very much and retaliated, killing many of the guardians. One thing led to another as revenge plot after revenge plot takes place, eventually causing the Pillars and their guardians to become corrupted.



This is where you, Kain (voiced by Simon Templeman), come in. After being resurrected, you are tasked with putting an end to these corrupted guardians in order to, hopefully, bring order back to the world of Nosgoth.

So, as you can see, if you are a fan of big stories, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain definitely has you covered!

Hack n’ slash, puzzle-solving goodness
While a great story can be enough to carry a game, thankfully, Legacy of Kain also excels in classic action-adventure gaming, fighting, and puzzle-solving!



Using a top-down perspective, you’ll explore large outdoor areas and crawl your way through dungeons, exploring, fighting off creatures and humans, and collecting new weapons and armor that change up your gameplay.

And because you are a vampire, your health will continuously (but slowly) decrease the longer you go without blood. You can top up your health meter by taking out humans and creatures with red blood, but make sure to avoid the tainted black blood because it will poison you!

In addition to plenty of weapons to choose from, you will also get some valuable spells to dispatch your enemies. Then, on top of that, you can even shapeshift into a couple of different forms to help with your quest.



Journey into the big world of Legacy of Kain
If you like top-down action games or just want something with an epic story and world-building, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain could be exactly what you are looking for. It features a memorable story and characters and provides plenty of exploration and action for people that prefer that.

On top of that, you can celebrate GOG’s 13th anniversary with us by playing a true classic making a comeback on modern PCs.

What do you think? Plan on checking this game out now that it is on GOG.COM? Let us know down in the comments!
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paladin181: It was under additional info:

Additional info:

Just like previous demo release, Blood Omnicide 0.1 has some unfinished features which will be completed in future patches. All known issues is listed Blood Wiki - Known issues list.
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paladin181:
In my excitement, I must have missed that bit thanks for the clarification! :D
While we're on the subject of Blood Omen, have there been any updates on when Soul Reaver 1 will be back on the store?
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SpikedWallMan: While we're on the subject of Blood Omen, have there been any updates on when Soul Reaver 1 will be back on the store?
I read somewhere that Nixxes were the ones working on the update for Soul Reaver. However, they were recently bought by Sony and are now a PlayStation studio.

If it's true that they were really the ones working on it, with the purchase by Sony it might mean that they no longer are responsible for it, and so Square Enix had to look out for another studio to do it. Or Nixxes are still working on it, but with all the bureaucracy involved, things might have slipped a bit.
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SpikedWallMan: While we're on the subject of Blood Omen, have there been any updates on when Soul Reaver 1 will be back on the store?
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bluethief: I read somewhere that Nixxes were the ones working on the update for Soul Reaver. However, they were recently bought by Sony and are now a PlayStation studio.

If it's true that they were really the ones working on it, with the purchase by Sony it might mean that they no longer are responsible for it, and so Square Enix had to look out for another studio to do it. Or Nixxes are still working on it, but with all the bureaucracy involved, things might have slipped a bit.
Didn't even noticed SR1 was removed. Let's hope for a better version.
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Instant buy. There are countless games that would have not seen a official re-release without GOG. Valve (Steam) wouldn't have done it or any other company. Thank you GOG for bringing back this masterpiece.

We have had people saying that some games would NEVER EVER get updated for re-released even on GOG due to all the legal complications yet GOG has done it again. This was one of them games people had written off as ever getting re-released. So many games brought back from the dead that never would have been and for that I will always be thankful. THANK YOU gog team. I do hope you carry on the hard work.

The amount of time, work and energy put into getting Blood Omen Legacy of Kain onto GOG when people had written off that ever happening is well worth a price tag of less than 10 dollars/£. Trying to buy a physical copy of this game would cost over £100 dollars or £100 on ebay if your trying to get PS1 version and of course the PC version isn't cheap either and requires lots of patches. I fail to see how anyone can begrudge that price as its less than the price of a Chicken chow mein and chips ;)
Post edited September 30, 2021 by wolfmanrip
People seem to love this and I own the other Legacy of Kain titles. Might as well own the first, eh?
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SpikedWallMan: While we're on the subject of Blood Omen, have there been any updates on when Soul Reaver 1 will be back on the store?
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bluethief: I read somewhere that Nixxes were the ones working on the update for Soul Reaver. However, they were recently bought by Sony and are now a PlayStation studio.

If it's true that they were really the ones working on it, with the purchase by Sony it might mean that they no longer are responsible for it, and so Square Enix had to look out for another studio to do it. Or Nixxes are still working on it, but with all the bureaucracy involved, things might have slipped a bit.
That's a shame that it's been delayed. Here's hoping it gets relisted soon.
Thanks GOG! Instant buy. Good to have this classic in the catalog :)
An excellent and unexpected release. Having said that, I couldn't even open it without Verok's patch (some kind of cryptic memory error), and the game's forums are seeing a lot of posts by people with technical issues; I hope that GOG's compatibility people will give this game another look.
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Starkrun: How, how did you fix this? the speed issue, the modern cpu issue.... this has been one of the most difficult games to get working in all of history.
Frankly, I first thought maybe this would be the Playstation version emulated (as that is a more certain way to get the game working, as long as you can sort out the legal aspects of Playstation emulation)... but apparently this is still the PC version, with more fixes.

Or I presume so, I haven't tried it yet. I had issues with the earlier 3rd party fixes, e.g. like said there was some common problem not showing the road signs with a NVidia GPU (so I played the game with Intel HD Graphics on my work Windows 7 laptop instead, and an old ATI/AMD graphics card on my ancient Windows XP PC).

EDIT: Well, I guess I can try it right now on my Windows 10 laptop with NVidia GPU...
Post edited September 30, 2021 by timppu
Does someone know if it works with Verok's patch?
Here is a short demonstration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgzeKN8fO4

The best thing is, it upscales the graphics/UI seamlessly (and many other small things).
The GOG version seems to work great without a hitch at least on my Windows 10 laptop (with NVidia Quadro GPU... well actually I can't be fully sure if the game was using my Intel HD or NVidia GPU, but at least it worked).

I played it until reaching the pillars, then I got stuck as I somehow was able to go behind the pillars,.but not get back from there, LOL. A game bug...
Post edited September 30, 2021 by timppu
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timppu: LOL. A game bug...
Or classic human error... ? :p
Noice. Now I'm not the only one in the world to own a legit (retail) copy of the game :-P