Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

Old, janky, and simply not fun. If you want a quality D&D experience, play KOTOR.

Neverwinter Nights is a solid game, especially for its time - a faithful recreation of the D&D ruleset and mechanics, adapted to real-time combat engagements. But for me, this was never quite the draw, even if it certainly is part of it. No, the *real* allure of NWN comes from its roleplaying community: namely the online servers, still ongoing in development and community engagement, that have taken their own twist on the formula in new and exciting ways. Arelith has taken the classical route of might and magic, being perhaps the most faithful to its base source material - D&D in a large, sprawling network of maps that interconnect (even across two servers, seamlessly!) to create a vast play area for you to explore with friends made along the way. Ravenloft, meanwhile, focuses on a more grim adaptation; based on the Curse of Strahd campaign, theirs is an unforgiving and thoroughly engaging playing field with a tight-knit but sizeable community. Lastly I'll mention a server I've spent a good deal of time on lately, Star Wars LOR - changing the genre of the game entirely via heavy modification of the game's systems and assets to instead be high fantasy sci-fi, complete with playable droids, ewoks, wookiees, jedi... Even space combat has been made possible via modding, truly showing just how much the engine can be manipulated. All this to say, that whilst the game is certainly a classic - do not be afraid to explore what its community has wrought as well! A small but endlessly passionate collective can make wonders with tools such as NWN provides, and they certainly have.