Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a top-down action/adventure video game, the first game in the successful Legacy of Kain series and the only one developed by Silicon Knights and published by Crystal Dynamics. The game was first released in 1996 for the PlayStation, and later ported to Microsoft Windows. A Saturn version was announced during production but later cancelled before release. Blood Omen was followed by four sequels developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive, including a direct sequel, Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain.