Neverwinter Nights

Is Neverwinter Nights worth it?

90% of 9,553 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $19.99 on Steam.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.

How long is Neverwinter Nights? How long to beat it

Total play time for Neverwinter Nights is about 77.4 hours to do everything, and around 50.3 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.

At its current price of $19.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.40 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.

Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.

Neverwinter Nights system requirements

The minimum requirements from Neverwinter Nights's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.

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Estimated sales for Neverwinter Nights

These are estimates, not reported figures. The publisher has not published unit sales for Neverwinter Nights, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If the publisher publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Neverwinter Nights price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $19.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

Latest Neverwinter Nights updates & patch notes

Pulled from Neverwinter Nights's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.

1. Patch Release, 89.8193.37-178 October 2025 · From the studio
2. Neverwinter Nights & all Beamdog titles up to 70% off30 September 2025 · From the studio

What readers say about Neverwinter Nights

Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.

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Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Neverwinter Nights on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

1. Crashes and freezes24 of 300 (8%)

   If you're looking for that classic 2002 feel, you've got it - complete with all the bugs, crashes and glitches you remember from its heyday (and even some new ones!) Expect to be excited, frustrated and downright disappointed.

   Steam review, 17 December 2022 · 5,191 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

   I see some complaints about crashes and bugs in the reviews.

   Steam review, 17 November 2021 · 51 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

2. Will not launch or install9 of 300 (3%)

   It simply wont launch properly.

   Steam review, 21 June 2025 · 1 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpful

   Either the game doesn't launch, or it crashes while waiting to load.

   Steam review, 11 September 2025 · 80 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpful

A further 15 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.

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Where Neverwinter Nights appears

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