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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
Developer Beamdog
Neverwinter Nights is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare. Interplay Entertainment was originally set to publish the game, but financial difficulties led to it being taken over by Infogrames, who released the game under their Atari range of titles. It is the first installment in the Neverwinter Nights series, and was released for Microsoft Windows on June 18, 2002. BioWare later released a Linux client in… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
475 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
215 positive · 22 negative
95% range 86–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 215 | 22 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 76 | 11 | 93 |
| Mastodon * | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| Lemmy * | 8 | 2 | 18 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
5,968 of 6,526 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 194 yes, 17 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 211 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (8,682 of 9,612 positive).
Players praise the game's multiplayer RP communities and custom modules. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the main campaign is weaker than expansions and user content. [4][5][6] A few players criticize dated mechanics and small text. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [7]
microscopic text that you can't enlarge in any way. for a story game with hours of reading dialogue, no one can read that ♥♥♥♥.
- [1]
It all started as a curiosity, to play a game from 2002 for the first time in 2026. With my love for Bioware (ME and DA), a couple of visual patches and HD packs for upgrades, I said to myself, 'Aight sis let's ride at dawn'. Then I learned that there were more than one campaign included. Yeah more hours gone from my life. My curiosity brought me to Neverwinter Vault and discovered custom modules?????? Epic …
- [4]
I will take any chance I can to explore more of the Forgotten Realms. The main campaign was just okay, pretty bread and butter fantasy, I think it spent too much time inside the city. I was relieved to get out. The DLCs are where it's at--some of the best campaigns for this game are on the DLCs. Some of them give you epic levels and let's you have fun with it. We don't see that much these days. This game is more of …
- [16]
This game can feel dated and kind of frustrating in the way older games often do. 3rd edition dungeons and dragons can also be pretty crunchy; so, the various build mechanics can be daunting to new players who don't own a copy of the player's handbook. But, by and large this is a very fun game with lots of content and with endless hours of potential dungeon diving fun to be had. Hard not to recommend.
- [2]
Hours Spent. This is just the EE version. Triple it to account for the original releases. The multiplayer RP communities are all pretty crazy awesome,
Summarised from 34 of the 365 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition sits at 91% positive across 237 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
For the launch of Neverwinter Nights, publisher Infogrames shipped 1 million copies to stores, with half allocated to North America and the rest to international markets. In an experimental move, the company priced the game at $55, an increase over the $50 typical of computer games at the time. CNN Money columnist Chris Morris reported that "gamers complained loudly about" this decision. The game proceeded to sell 125,000 copies by June 27, after its release on the 18th. It debuted at #1 on The NPD Group's computer game sales chart during the June 16–22 period, and held the position for two weeks, before being displaced by Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. However, Neverwinter Nights continued…
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Reactions
60 of 475 · most liked firstFollow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 15 Steam codes for Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway ends on July 20th, 6 PM PT game is available now on PC and consoles store.steampowered.com/app/2738630/...
neutral · AI labelView post →They took almost every single one of my video games—and the consoles—but in a final act of supreme injury, left a lone game behind. It was Neverwinter Nights 2. Still thinking about that.
negative · AI labelView post →Why BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players. Today you would expect this to be a calculated attempt to bring more long-term, always-on, multiplayer-as-a-service to an RPG franchise that has mostly appealed to solo players. You might imagine it would be about selling cosmetics, a subscription, or a battle pass, or maybe you would think it was about nabbing appealing engagement numbers. But it’s clear from playing it today that Neverwinter Nights wasn’t primarily made…
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldurs Gate 1 is a fantastic adventure. I just finished Baldurs Gate 1 for the first time and really enjoyed it. That's why I want to share my thoughts on. I'm acutally kina fond of the genre and love games like Pillars, KOTOR, Tyranny and already tried BG1 a couple of years ago, but I gave up after some hours (more on that later). In the meantime I finished BG3 twice, played through Owlcat's Pathfinder games and now I wanted to give BG1 another go. Story: I kinda like it, but it's definitely…
neutral · AI labelView post →Neverwinter Game: Neverwinter Nights Dev: BioWare 🇨🇦 Release: 18 June 2002
neutral · AI labelView post →Something I think about sometimes is how Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft 3 had INCREDIBLE module creation tools that effectively let you make full games in their game which promoted long-lasting communities and immense value for the product itself. But, you know, that's never happening again.
positive · AI labelView post →23 Years Ago: Neverwinter Nights was released. Using the 3e ruleset, the game is set in & around the city of Neverwinter. It was named the best computer RPG of 2002 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) #dnd #TBThursday #tbt forgottenrealms.fand...
neutral · AI labelView post →Neverwinter Nights was the game that taught me to love CRPGs. It was the first game I played where I engaged with a real online community. Heartbreaking.
positive · AI labelView post →Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition has arrived and Steam Deck Verified.
neutral · AI labelView post →Played this game a a child I did not understand anything. Glad to return to the game as an adult and still understand nothing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So uh, I just bought this game a couple weeks ago and only played it because of tiktok videos of Hardcore Permadeath DND style servers that were introduced. I've been just playing in one particular server, Haze Saltborne, and I haven't done anything else. Not even the single player. Worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It all started as a curiosity, to play a game from 2002 for the first time in 2026. With my love for Bioware (ME and DA), a couple of visual patches and HD packs for upgrades, I said to myself, 'Aight sis let's ride at dawn'. Then I learned that there were more than one campaign included. Yeah more hours gone from my life. My curiosity brought me to Neverwinter Vault and discovered custom modules?????? Epic campaigns??? Short stories???? WHAT Ladies, gentlemen and gentlethems, I have now…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ya know what still bums me right the fuck out? Neverwinter Nights 2, despite being my vastly preferred NWN game, didn't get a good remaster! Beamdog lavished NWN1 with endless, almost frightening amounts of love and care, and some fly by night bullshit studio cranked off NWN2's remaster
negative · AI labelView post →I'm a huge Neverwinter Nights 2 campagin defender it is what happens when some people who are very good at game design go, "We're going to do shit as rote as possible, but we're going to maximum skill this"
positive · AI labelView post →For Random Game Saturday I have a sealed copy of Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. I should probably play it sometime.
neutral · AI labelView post →A 2004 ad for Neverwinter Nights Mobile, an RPG by FloodGate Entertainment for your flip phone FloodGate's attempt to squish BioWare's D&D adventure had its own story, character creator, automated combat, and managed to make its top-down, 2D world bigger by streaming chunks of content when needed!
neutral · AI labelView post →Me, watching a youtube: "The early 2000s were a golden age for CRPGs, with games like Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights-" Me: Okay gotta stop you there, Neverwinter Nights is not a classic, Neverwinter Nights' ENGINE is a classic, the game itself is boring as shit. See, basically-
negative · AI labelView post →wild and insane fact: I think I've learned more about Faerun in a way that makes me interested in it by just playing Neverwinter Nights 2 once than I have in every single other forgotten realms game (both video and tabletop) combined
positive · AI labelView post →Theme: #kobold Anyone remember Deekin Scalesinger from Neverwinter Nights? The old game from over 20 years (omg, seriously!?) not the newer MMO from...over a decade ago 😵💫 #pixel_dailies #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →First off, obligatory ignore the play time, I probably I have over a thousand hours in this game on other platforms. Anyway OG gamer here, I'm 30+ and have been playing this game since it first came out, so let me sit down and tell you a bit about it. This game is very different, the gameplay is very much secondary here. Obviously the graphics are very dated as well. So why should anyone play this these days? Well again, this game does something no modern game is doing right now which is this;…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game to larp as the best fantasy race, blond hair blue eyed male human fighter with greatsword
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AYO, A LICENSE PF2 VIDEO GAME IS HAPPENING AND THE DEV WORKED ON BALDUR'S GAT AND NEVERWINTER NIGHTS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Hours Spent. This is just the EE version. Triple it to account for the original releases. The multiplayer RP communities are all pretty crazy awesome,
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually came into D&D as someone who enjoyed Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights and some bits and pieces of Dragonlance I’d read. I tend to think in terms of fiction-first rather than game first with things as a result. For me the real treat was seeing Neverwinter and Thay in live action.
positive · AI labelView post →10 games to get to know me, in no particular order: Final Fantasy XIV World of Warcraft Victoria (like, Vicky 1 from 2005) Crusader Kings II Doom/Doom II/Final Doom (cheating and counting as one game) SimCity 2000 Neverwinter Nights Fallout: New Vegas Chrono Trigger Phantasy Star IV
neutral · AI labelView post →My RPG roots as a gamer (and later, a game dev) were firmly in BioWare’s wide array of games. I remember my first experiences with many of BioWare’s games: the original Baldur’s Gate (and 2), Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, SWTOR, and hell, even Anthem (such potential).
neutral · AI labelView post →I will take any chance I can to explore more of the Forgotten Realms. The main campaign was just okay, pretty bread and butter fantasy, I think it spent too much time inside the city. I was relieved to get out. The DLCs are where it's at--some of the best campaigns for this game are on the DLCs. Some of them give you epic levels and let's you have fun with it. We don't see that much these days. This game is more of a platform for stories than just a single game. You can tell almost any story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So you mean... like Neverwinter Nights made fairly easy back in 2002? Or do you mean, like a board game kind of thing? Naaah, it'd never catch on. 😜😉😅
neutral · AI labelView post →Game announcements fail to understand that i already own Neverwinter Nights and am therefore content
positive · AI labelView post →Truthfully I don't think Bioware has made a game I've actually enjoyed since like Dragon Age 2 but it still feels bad because Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs Gate, KotOR, and OG Mass Effect and Dragon Age were so solid and were such a big part of my gaming experience. RIP
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, and Eye of the Beholder are great and all, but the BEST videogame adaptation of D&D ever made wasn't even a roleplaying game:
neutral · AI labelView post →Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is an excellent, subtle remaster and my new Steam Deck game of the summer.
positive · AI labelView post →AOL Neverwinter Nights No discussion of early online games can go by without discussing this classic. The pet project of game legend Don Daglow Neverwinter Nights helped to define MMOs in the commercial space in terms of social mechanics.
neutral · AI labelView post →It really feels like WoW was the game to popularize the idea of respec & push it into CRPGs. Before that we would just grab a save editor. Neverwinter Nights 1 had mid-2000s modules that served as character creators, with options including "Rebuilding levels", but it's clearly a different approach
neutral · AI labelView post →The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 11 Neverwinter Nights #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #NeverwinterNights
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldurs Gate 1 is a fantastic adventure. cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/35311538 > I just finished Baldurs Gate 1 for the first time and really enjoyed it. That's why I want to share my thoughts on. I'm acutally kina fond of the genre and love games like Pillars, KOTOR, Tyranny and already tried BG1 a couple of years ago, but I gave up after some hours (more on that later). In the meantime I finished BG3 twice, played through Owlcat's Pathfinder games and now I wanted to give BG1…
neutral · AI labelView post →Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition brings the classic 2006 game partly up to date, but technical & quality of life issues hurt the experience, though it's very playable on the #SteamDeck. A copy was provided by Aspyr for review. steamdeckhq.com/game-reviews...
neutral · AI labelView post →The solo campaign is not even the meat of this server even though there are hours of content for those that like the nostalgic gameplay. The beamdog servers are what truly makes this game an incredible masterpiece! I am still playing this in 2026 and have been playing on Ravenloft, Arelith and Haze since 2022. Haze is very special, and by far my favorite. The DM's are active, the server is persistent, and it is sandbox where you can truly build whatever world you want. They have a builders…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Because of the sad state of creativity stagnation than modern AAA videogame are. Yeah there indie games, sometimes done by people who used to work on those titles, like New Vegas, Morrowind, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, etc, but their are in different scopes, mostly always lack some things who would make then perfect. In the last two generations of consoles, i can count on my fingers the games who did things right like on Old Games, Baldur's Gate 3 is one of them, with Lariant sharping…
neutral · AI labelView post →The main campaign (least after Act 1) and DLCs hold up so well even after all these years. Bit easy so play on the harder difficulties if that suits you. I still find the best DnD 3.5E adaptations. Check out Nexus mods or the Steam Workshop for mods on this to shine it up. Super fun to coop through too. Nice you can customize content for even coop. Never known anyone to not enjoy this game and so cheap too during deals.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Official character and creature sketches from Neverwinter Nights. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_neverwin...
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't forget about Neverwinter Nights! Fantastic game and had a huge self-hosting community for many years. Loved that game.
positive · AI labelView post →New Humble Bundle includes Warhammer, Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Pathfinder hits. Great bundle. At $23 dollars you get Warhammer 40,000 - Rogue Trader. All the Owlcat games
neutral · AI labelView post →First Game: Stronghold Last Game Played: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Favorite Game: Neverwinter Nights 2 or Pillars of Eternity (I can’t decide😱) Worst Game: Cyberpunk 2077 Game I've Played the Most: Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous or The Sims 🤭 Most Surprising: Pentiment
neutral · AI labelView post →Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete is the sequel to a fantastic D&D game and the next game on my list to beat! Battle your way through 4 campaigns and a TON of user created content with whatever character you can create! I made Alma a katana master for this run! Lets do this!
positive · AI labelView post →tl;dr RIP BioWare. Baldur’s Gate demonstrated your storytelling, Dragon Age showed off your worldbuilding, and Mass Effect & KotOR brought Western RPGs to consoles and a wider audience. But Neverwinter Nights was a unique offering I don't think any studio has replicated. NWN is an extraordinary D&D storytelling platform that happens to ship with perfectly OK campaigns. Few games match its easy-to-use yet powerful toolset, persistent online worlds and thriving community. Twenty years of free,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Neverwinter Nights is a big part of why I wanted to be a game developer. The creation kit felt like magic, endless possibility, and I could do everything myself. I've made friends through Dragon Age and Mass Effect fandoms. We still talk about ME1 decisions and how DA2 was flawed but amazing. Sigh.
positive · AI labelView post →It's the best old game ever. Especially if you want to tell a story, not just play one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Neverwinter Nights had profound impacts on me because of its multiplayer, community, and creative outlets. There really hasn't been another game like it. Big loss today. bsky.app/profile/rpgs...
positive · AI labelView post →everyone's talking about the new friendslop game.... yes it's called loading up Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition and looming over halfing men with your bestie @mariposa.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →old days of the interwebs is like late 80s/early 90s, before centralized game servers were a thing. On the rare cases of fully online games (original Neverwinter Nights and other MUDs and MMORPGs), mods and admins were known to enforce rules if they were online Maybe what anon considers "normal" is early 2010s Dota/LoL/Heroes of Newerth, where winning meant getting called a "fucking cheating retard that doesn't know how to play" and losing meant getting called a "stupid gay cunt retard n*…
neutral · AI labelView post →What a gem to find... Thank god for social media and their RP servers PR people to let me onto it! Really getting that old school RPG vibes. Just like from Dragon age origins... Enjoying every moment both of the Singleplayer game when I just wanna game, and in the multiplayer online servers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have the saves but Neverwinter Nights is...like... Okay, so, I copied the saves from the file to the other file but now in game, if I try and save, it doesn't save and the game just...does nothing! WEIRD!
negative · AI labelView post →We did it! My friends and I have finally beat The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria! Off to find our next game! We were kind of tossing around Deep Rock Galactic or Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition.
neutral · AI labelView post →The quality of this game is so high it makes me have insane, lovecraftian thoughts like "Maybe I should play Icewind Dale" or "Surely Neverwinter Nights *can* be fun"
neutral · AI labelView post →microscopic text that you can't enlarge in any way. for a story game with hours of reading dialogue, no one can read that ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i own two different copies of Neverwinter Nights 2 and its still easier to pirate the game than it would be to actually install it normally with either copy i officially own
negative · AI labelView post →Every video game will now be made as a Neverwinter Nights module
neutral · AI labelView post →RPG Codex Review: Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm reviewing Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition! The game is out on July 15, so you can read my thoughts at Forbes then and I'll be posting videos on my TikTok and YouTube as well. ⚔️🐉🛡️✨
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