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Neverwinter Nights

BioWare, MacSoft Games

2002•RPG•PEGI 12•About 26 hours

Taste attributes: adventurefantasyanimalsdetectivemonster/alien/supernaturalromancefastimaginaryintricatelinearglossybig & variedfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivallove conquers allrescue/escape/jeopardysolving the riddle/not as it seemsunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeFantastical and stylish: an expansive RPG. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: very glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

78 / 100

234 ratings

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About This Game

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.

Summary: IGDB

Story

The story begins with the player character (PC), under the guidance of Lady Aribeth, sent to recover four creatures (dryad, intellect devourer, yuan-ti, and cockatrice), known collectively as the Waterdhavian creatures, needed to make a cure for the Wailing Death, a plague that is sweeping the city of Neverwinter and forcing a quarantine. With the help of Fenthick Moss, Aribeth’s love interest, and Desther, Fenthick’s friend, the PC is able to retrieve the creatures. As they collect the creatures, they are attacked by mysterious assassins from a cult that is behind the spreading of the...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

AdventureFantasyAnimalsDetectiveMonster/alien/supernaturalRomanceFighting evilHuman spirit/resilience/survivalLove conquers allRescue/escape/jeopardySolving the riddle/not as it seemsUnderdog triumphs

Keywords

MagicGuildSummoning supportDeathChickenMultiple endingsTrapsDialogue trees

Details

Developers: BioWare, MacSoft Games
Publishers: Atari, Inc., Infogrames, MacSoft Games
Released: 18 June 2002
Series: Dungeons & Dragons
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective: Third person, Bird view / Isometric
Time to beat: 17h rushed, 26h normally, 56h complete
Age rating: PEGI 12
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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