The game is cool, I'm enjoying it so far, but I've come across 3 pretty major bugs so far and after days of searching, no fix. When you get to Neverwinter, you have new NPCs join your group, Elanee, and Qara, but there is/are bugs that won't allow them to join. So I could have more characters join my party, but the game won't let me. Very annoying. Now I'm getting to the point to travel to the Old Owl Well, and there's a bug that gets stuck at the cutscreen/intro, apparently the game self deletes a file that makes it get stuck. So now I have to track down the missing file if I want to continue (ROS-grobnar.ros). I bought the game in July 2023 from GOG, why the hell is this thing so buggy.

I had expected NWN2 in Gog for a long time. Installing the complete game with all it's expansions and patches was a real pain. Finally all in one version with no DRM. Thanks Gog for adding another masterpiece to our collection.

Neverwinter Nights 2 is a frustrating game to play immediately after experiencing Neverwinter Nights. The keybinds and options are strange, and are difficult to fix. It keeps reverting settings, and you need to remember what it reverts. If there is a problem, chances are that you need to download a mod or executable to fix it. It is a sloppy and technically weak game. However, there are good points about it. The game is recognizably a role-playing game, and it tries to recapture some of the feel of games such as the Baldur's Gate series. I think it does not succeed in this, but it tries.

Unfortunately, no. I can't recommend it when the game's original campaign does not let you (like NWN1 does!) start the "module"s at the Act(s) you've unlocked. I had a showstopping bug that preventing me from continuing Act 2, and restarting the campaign had me run into another progression bug that stopped me from even reaching where I was previously. Apparently, Windows 10 (and 11?) has a permissions issue to where certain files aren't written into the game properly and thus cause these bugs. Maybe installing it on Linux would work, but not being able to complete the campaign is massively disappointing when the little I DID play (Act 1) fixed a lot of NWN1's issues and gave some party members to care about. (...Seems one developer has a curse of being put on Buggy titles. NWN2, Alpha Protocol, The Witcher 3 [which fixed itself, hm...] and Cyberpunk... ANYWAY...) I'm going to put the kill command to use in the attempt to speed back to where you need to go in here, just in case someone needs it. You might have to compile it with the toolset, but it works (awkwardly) if you want to cheat like the CTRL+Y instant-kill cheat does in NWN and earlier Infinite Engine/DnD titles: // 'kill' void main() { object oTarget = GetPlayerCurrentTarget(OBJECT_SELF); if (GetIsObjectValid(oTarget) && GetObjectType(oTarget) == OBJECT_TYPE_CREATURE) { SetPlotFlag(oTarget, FALSE); SetImmortal(oTarget, FALSE); AssignCommand(oTarget, SetIsDestroyable(FALSE, TRUE, TRUE)); effect eDeath = EffectDeath(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE); ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT, eDeath, oTarget); } else SendMessageToPC(GetFirstPC(FALSE), "target a creature to kill"); } Otherwise, yeah: I can't recommend it because it goes out of it's way to stop you from playing it. Hopefully someone moduels the 5 into NWN1:EE, but I'm not holding my breath. (There are 100 characters for this review left. So I'm just going to end up waste them here. Thx.)

When I try to save the game, I am not able to because the saves are not there (in "load" screen) - I was trying to run the game as admin, I was trying to disable my antivirus - nothing works... I wanted to play NWN 2 very much but without saves it's unplayable...