Neverwinter Nights

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…

74 18 June 2002 5 cheats

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy

Neverwinter Nights is an adventure developed by BioWare, released 18 June 2002 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.

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What Neverwinter Nights is

Neverwinter Nights is an adventure game developed by BioWare and released in 2002. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Aurora Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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 plague. As the cure is being made, Castle Neverwinter is attacked by the minions of Desther, who betrays…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series

Neverwinter Nights is the 63rd of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. It arrived 7 months after Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. The next entry was Icewind Dale II in 2002. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Baldur's Gate III at 95.

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How it was received

Neverwinter Nights holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 234 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 26 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 56 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Neverwinter Nights launched on 18 June 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Medal of Honor: Frontline and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Medal of Honor: Frontline, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Neverwinter Nights — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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