"Neverwinter Nights" was a runner-up for the "Role-Playing Game of the Year" awards of "Computer Gaming World", IGN, GameSpy and RPG Vault, all of which went to "". The editors of "Computer Gaming World" wrote that "Neverwinter Nights" "gave gamers a fabulous toolset for creating their own adventures—too bad the single-player campaign prompted a staffwide shrugging of shoulders." It was also nominated as the overall best computer game of 2002 by GameSpot, "PC Gamer US" and the AIAS, and as the year's best game on any platform by the GDCA. These prizes went variously to "Warcraft III", "Battlefield 1942" and "Metroid Prime".