Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered
Play as the vampire Kain and his betrayed lieutenant Raziel. Wield legendary blades, use supernatural abilities, and battle through a world of conflict, intrigue, and prophecy as their paths collide across the…
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 3 March 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
What Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2026. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as the vampire Kain and his betrayed lieutenant Raziel. Wield legendary blades, use supernatural abilities, and battle through a world of conflict, intrigue, and prophecy as their paths collide across the dark world of Nosgoth.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 59 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Legacy of Kain series
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is the 16th of 17 entries we hold in the Legacy of Kain series. The next entry was Legacy of Kain: Ascendance in 2026. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 at 95.
How it was received
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 / AMD FX-4100, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti / AMD RX 550 / Intel Iris Xe. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered launched on 3 March 2026, within three weeks of Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert Enhanced, Reanimal and Marathon. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert Enhanced, Reanimal, Marathon.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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