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Neverwinter Nights (2002)

BioWare, MacSoft Games

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.68 from 897 ratings

2860 members have it in their collection · 49 playing now · 1123 backlogged · 265 wish listed

How long? Main story 50h · with extras 60h · 100% 116h (from 9 logged playthroughs)

Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a third-person role-playing video game and is set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with the game mechanics based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition rules. The game engine was designed around an internet-based model for running a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which would allow end users to host game … Read more
Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a third-person role-playing video game and is set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with the game mechanics based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition rules. The game engine was designed around an internet-based model for running a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which would allow end users to host game servers. The intent was to create a potentially infinite massively multiplayer game framework. This game was named after the original Neverwinter Nights online game; the first ever graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which operated from 1991 to 1997 on AOL. Read less
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Developers
BioWare, MacSoft Games
Publishers
Atari, Inc., Infogrames, MacSoft Games
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Fantasy
Franchises
Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms
Series
Neverwinter Nights
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Release dates

  • Jun 18, 2002 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Jul 03, 2002 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Jun 20, 2003 (Worldwide) Linux
  • Aug 2003 (Worldwide) Mac
  • Dec 18, 2003 (Europe) Mac

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5 stars
202
4 stars
314
3 stars
286
2 stars
78
1 star
17
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SuperFieroStatus

Status SuperFieroStatus Aug 14, 2022

I beat it. What a joyless slog. I hesitate to write a review, because I feel like the adventure it comes with isn't the "real" game? Or something? Like people play NWN for the fan made adventures. But that single player campaign was a hot wet stinker. I have trouble seeing how the fan made ones are too much better, …

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I beat it. What a joyless slog. I hesitate to write a review, because I feel like the adventure it comes with isn't the "real" game? Or something? Like people play NWN for the fan made adventures. But that single player campaign was a hot wet stinker. I have trouble seeing how the fan made ones are too much better, since the game is so full of aggravating mechanical flaws. I don't see how those get resolved. We'll see. I might download and try one and see.

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SuperFieroStatus

Status SuperFieroStatus Jul 28, 2022

Still playing. I'm having..."fun"? I think? The game, at every turn, is trash. It looks like trash, it sounds like trash, it plays like trash, and it reads like trash. But for some reason I have yet to peg down, I'm devouring it. Maybe it's a morbid fascination? I think the word I'd use is "unpolished". Maybe it's an unfinished …

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Still playing. I'm having..."fun"? I think? The game, at every turn, is trash. It looks like trash, it sounds like trash, it plays like trash, and it reads like trash. But for some reason I have yet to peg down, I'm devouring it. Maybe it's a morbid fascination? I think the word I'd use is "unpolished". Maybe it's an unfinished game?

The story is a total snoozefest. I just got to the part where all 4 Waterdhavian creatures are rescued, and Denther doublecrosses you in a boring, hyper-predictable "twist."

For looks and sounds, sure it's dated, but I didn't feel that way about Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1/2, or Planescape: Torment, all of which are OLDER. The maps all look the same so far, the city feels dead and lifeless. The NPCs are some of the most boring I have ever come across, and that's saying something.

I will play this game and beat it, because again, I am having what I think is fun. Regardless of why, I want to play it more.

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SuperFieroStatus

Status SuperFieroStatus Jul 25, 2022

I am finding this game...both perplexing and reasonably enjoyable. Not great, though I'm only 3 or so hours in. I knew nothing going in, and have played some other cRPGs, like the infinity engine games. I was really taken aback at how different this was. The UI is janky. The henchmen system seems like a weird choice, and it just …

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I am finding this game...both perplexing and reasonably enjoyable. Not great, though I'm only 3 or so hours in. I knew nothing going in, and have played some other cRPGs, like the infinity engine games. I was really taken aback at how different this was. The UI is janky. The henchmen system seems like a weird choice, and it just seems like more than one step backwards. Only speculation, but I assume this was some push to make the game more accessible than Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale. That said, I always got the impression NWN was more of an engine than a game. The base game is not what people recommend most, and that's what I'm playing.

That said, I enjoy running around blasting fools and collecting loot, so we'll see if it has any staying power with me.

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El_Diegote

Status El_Diegote Mar 31, 2020

Just finished the original campaign after, I don't know, 15 years? And oh god, what an anticlimatic ending.

Now to the expansions because why not, better be fully dissapointed than just a half of it.

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El_Diegote

Status El_Diegote Feb 2, 2020

Discovered yesterday that this game has a Switch version and one thing led to another and I received it earlier today.

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GigaDeathNullGolem

Status GigaDeathNullGolem Aug 3, 2019

Completed:
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Santa is Missing!★★✰✰✰

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