Neverwinter

Neverwinter

Skip · Multiplayer · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Length
49.9h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
77% positive
Length
49.9h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
318.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
Free
Reviews
77%
39,600 reviews, as of Aug 3
Metacritic
74
critic score
Players
7.5M
owners (estimate)
Released
2013

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 21 GB of storage. Windows only.

Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Replayability~299h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 50h typical playtime
Reach7.5M+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
Holding it back
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationCurrency, Player trading
In-game spending, a moderate drag
DRMArc account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Length50 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Lord of the Rings Online™ (free, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28).

HowLongToBeat players log 49.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 319, 6.4 times as much.

13 years after release it still had 665 people in it at once.

It is still busy. 665 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. It takes its money later, through currency and player trading.

In-app purchasesCurrency, Player tradingPCGamingWiki

Players

665 players at peak in the last day.

The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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Neverwinter scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/109600/neverwinter
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The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.

Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3.

A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.

Critics vs players+3
Critics
74
Players
77
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 39,600 Steam player reviews

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Details

DeveloperCryptic Studios
PublisherArc Games
GenreMultiplayer
Released2013