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Play Overview
Neverwinter Nights (2002) is a series of games based on the Forgotten Realms campaign of Dungeons & Dragons. You play by creating and then guiding an adventurer on a dangerous mission. It stands out for being one of the first adventure games to offer graphical depiction of your character and the world and continues to be popular in enhanced and re released form on modern consoles.
The re released version invites you to return to the Forgotten Realms with new and enhanced features offering over a hundred hours of adventures and the tools to create your own. The series features three main stories:
It's a game that was developed and enhanced over many years. While visually the game is basic it has that spark of recreating the feel of a Tolkien adventure. It has something to offer a wide range of players, both experienced and newcomers. Those that want to can use the wider tools, DM client, and multiplayer options to craft an experience of their own.
Our examiner, Sabrina Culyba, first checked Neverwinter Nights 19 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 19 months ago.
The re released version invites you to return to the Forgotten Realms with new and enhanced features offering over a hundred hours of adventures and the tools to create your own. The series features three main stories:
- Neverwinter Nights Campaign: You find yourself at the centre of intrigue, betrayal, and dark magic in Neverwinter Nights. Journey through dangerous cities, monster-filled dungeons, and deep into uncharted wilderness in search of the cure for a cursed plague ravaging the city of Neverwinter.
- Shadows of Undrentide Expansion: Another adventure begins in Shadows of Undrentide! Charged by your master to recover four ancient artifacts, travel from the Silver Marches to unravel mysteries of a long-dead magical civilization.
- Hordes of the Underdark Expansion: Continue the adventure started in Shadows of Undrentide and journey into the ever-more bizarre and hostile depths of Undermountain to challenge a gathering evil.
It's a game that was developed and enhanced over many years. While visually the game is basic it has that spark of recreating the feel of a Tolkien adventure. It has something to offer a wide range of players, both experienced and newcomers. Those that want to can use the wider tools, DM client, and multiplayer options to craft an experience of their own.
Our examiner, Sabrina Culyba, first checked Neverwinter Nights 19 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 19 months ago.
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Play Style
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 40 hours and 50 hours to complete. The expansions take this game to 100s of hours.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
This game has helped players develop their Relationships as part of the following pathways:
Age Ratings
Content Rating
Skill Level
14+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content.
Our Game Pathways reveal how 20-year-olds play this game:
- 20-year-old: Staying Connected
Costs
Neverwinter Nights usually costs £16.75 to £47.99.
You can download the free expansions:
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
There are the following additional costs associated with this game:
- In-Game Purchases: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
You can download the free expansions:
- Darkness Over Daggerford: Darkness Over Daggerford is Ossian Studios’ enhanced update to the award-winning original premium adventure. The Duke of Daggerford has been mysteriously killed, a new power has taken over the town, bandits rove the Trade Way unhindered, and mysterious things stir in a fabled ancient citadel, yet all is not as it seems.
- Pirates of the Sword Coast Premium Adventure: A swashbuckling Dungeons & Dragons journey on the high seas— experience multiple endings, cunning henchmen, and a rollicking tale of woe!
- Wyvern Crown of Cormyr Premium Adventure: You have returned to Cormyr, the land of your birth, in the hopes of rebuilding your family’s fortune. Explore the kingdom on horseback, compete in jousting tournaments, and become a knight of Cormyr!
- Kingmaker Premium Adventure: Navigate guild politics and take on a mysterious masked mage to become Lord of the Keep in the premium adventure, Kingmaker!
- ShadowGuard Premium Adventure: You are recruited into the ShadowGuard— a secret organization tasked with protecting the Empire!
- Witch’s Wake Premium Adventure: You awaken on the battlefield with no memories, but soon you are drawn into a mysterious adventure that will take you to realms where the living world collides with that of the dead.
- The Dark Ranger's Treasure: Start a mysterious adventure at the Inn of Lance.
- The Winds of Eremor: Strange winds blow your ship to a mysterious island full of adventure!
- To Heir is Human: Save a kidnapped child from the clutches of the Drow!
- Contest of Champions: Go head to head in a competitive co-op battle against other teams of heroes.
- Adventurers of Neverwinter (Portrait Pack): A whole new cast of faces to create your next hero! Customize your Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition experience with this collection of ten new character portraits.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Game Details
Release Date: 18/06/2002, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Fighting (Action and Role-Play)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 3D Third-Person and Pixels
Developer: Neverwinter Game (@NeverwinterGame)
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