Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003)
Fair · Action · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 3D graphics compatible with DirectX 9, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take control of two powerful and highly evolved vampires: Kain, an all-powerful demigod, and Raziel, a demonic angel of death. Each equipped with a legendary sword, Kain & Raziel must battle through a world loaded with conflict and intrigue as they attempt to unravel their destinies and defeat the dark forces that seek to condemn...
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.97, set in November 2017. It has been discounted 95 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 86 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 41 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Alice: Madness Returns ($9.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001) ($6.99, scores 17).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 405 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 302 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Players
9 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224300/legacy-of-kain-defiance-2003The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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