Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 90%Very Positive · 90%2018

$19.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A dated but deep D&D 3.x CRPG whose real value is community modules, persistent multiplayer worlds and the toolset. Skip it if you want polished single-player or a modern UI.

Great for

D&D 3.x fans, nostalgic players, and roleplayers who want community modules and persistent multiplayer servers

Main risk

Clunky, dated controls and UI plus a weak base campaign make it boring without nostalgia or multiplayer.

What players love

Strong expansions and nostalgic classic

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“the expansions (Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark) really realize the potential of the game that the original campaign honestly couldn't”
Steam review · 325.3 h played ↗

“even the campaign of the HotU expansion alone is worth the price tag.”
Steam review · 28.5 h played ↗

Faithful D&D 3.x rules and build depth

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“One of the best mechanical adaptations of DnD 3.5E to PC.”
Steam review · 110.9 h played ↗

“Endless replay-ability and updated edition makes for an enjoyable experience for pre 5th Ed players who like the depth of feats, skills, and multiclassing options from 3rd edition.”
Steam review · 257 h played ↗

Community modules and endless content

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Endless adventures with community modules”
Steam review · 946.1 h played ↗

“Worth it for the community modules, especially Swordflight.”
Steam review · 58.8 h played ↗

“the fan community content, including still-active multiplayer servers”
Steam review · 24.1 h played ↗

Persistent multiplayer and RP servers

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Nwn is simply the best online platform for role play ever produced imho.”
Steam review · 660.1 h played ↗

“Campaigns are just okay, the persistent roleplay words are where its at”
Steam review · 6666.8 h played ↗

“The persistent worlds, whose downloads are now handled via synchronization with NWN itself (no external website downloads required) provide a vastly superior gameplay experience compared to the modules.”
Steam review · 900.9 h played ↗

Powerful toolset for building your own content

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“Most valuable to me is the ToolSet, and not only to me but anyone interested in Building his own modules”
Steam review · 19.7 h played ↗

Fun co-op with friends

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews

“Playing multiplayer mode with a friend. Super easy to setup.”
Steam review · 30.8 h played ↗

What players complain about

Crashes, bugs and lost saves

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“Crashes that corrupt save data are not acceptable in a game where you sink dozens or hundreds of hours into a character.”
Steam review · 11.4 h played ↗

“Game Loading the base module - Crash Beam dog logo - Crash”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

Little enhanced over the old Diamond Edition

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Pretty much the old game with a bit of UI scaling and prettier lighting.”
Steam review · 5.4 h played ↗

“The game is exactly how you remember it, which is the problem.”
Steam review · 29.8 h played ↗

Clunky, dated controls, UI and tiny text

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“There are no tooltips.”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗

“microscopic text that you can't enlarge in any way.”
Steam review · 8.3 h played ↗

“horrific ui and text so small that you could barely read it with a telescope”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗

Boring, passive combat and repetitive gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“The gameplay is too passive. You just sit there watching your character fight and occasionally take a healing potion.”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗

“In the end it's a dungeon crawler, that gets very repetitious”
Steam review · 43.5 h played ↗

Weak base campaign and story

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“The original campaign is incredibly boring, SoU is slightly better, HotU is ok.”
Steam review · 29.8 h played ↗

“The main campaign is very boring, and awfully balanced.”
Steam review · 34.6 h played ↗

Weak henchman system and party size

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“The main reason being the awful henchman system.”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗

“the henchman interactions are limited combined with the AI limitations”
Steam review · 22.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 7, 8.1, 10, 11 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i3 3rd gen or equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsOpenGL 3.3 compatible with 2 GB of VRAM

Storage12 GB available space

OSWindows 7, 8.1, 10, 11 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i3 3rd gen or equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsOpenGL 3.3 compatible with 2 GB of VRAM

Storage12 GB available space

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