Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights is a 1991 role-playing game set in the Forgotten Realms, long before the later title of the same name became famous for its powerful multiplayer tools and modding capabilities. The game offers an adventure filled with exploration, combat, character development, and the familiar fantasy ingredients of dangerous monsters, mysterious locations, and people who urgently need a hero to solve their problems. Players create and develop characters while travelling through a world that rewards exploration and careful decision-making. The experience has the classic appeal of computer role-playing games: begin as a relatively inexperienced adventurer, acquire better equipment, become stronger, and eventually discover that the fate of an entire region somehow depends on you. Neverwinter Nights is a solid example of early digital fantasy role-playing, where every dungeon door promised either treasure, danger, or both.