"Neverwinter Nights" was named the best computer role-playing game of 2002 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), "PC Gamer US" and GameSpot. RPG Vault declared it "Product of the Year", while "Computer Games Magazine" ranked it the year's second-best computer game across all genres. The latter publication's editors wrote that the "single-player game is merely passable", but they highly praised "Neverwinter Nights" content-creation tools, and argued that the game is "what computer role-playing games should have been all along".