This article is about the 2002 BioWare game. For the 1991 AOL MMORPG, see Neverwinter Nights (1991 video game). For the Neverwinter Nights series as a whole, see Neverwinter Nights (series). Neverwinter Nights is a third-person role-playing video game developed by BioWare. Interplay Entertainment was originally set to publish the game, but financial difficulties led to it being taken over by Atari. It was released on Microsoft Windows on June 18, 2002.