As per the title, I’m looking to find some titles to play with my kids, especially RPGs, as Baldur’s Gate 3 as struck the eye here but I’m not willing to fork the money for the graphics card required to run it.

I’ve been considering going back in time and go into Neverwinter Nights but I don’t know if it has a cooperative mode.

Can someone give a few suggestions?

The machines available are not that powerful (one AM3 based system and one soon to be assembled AM4 with a budget G series Ryzen). The rest are laptops reserved solely for work.

Any help is appreciated.

  • Björn Tantau
    3•9 months ago

    Neverwinter Nights has coop. It even has a dungeon master mode where one controls the game for the other players.

    BG3 might also not be suitable for kids anyways. It’s full of gruesome imagery. Like at the beginning you can pull a brain out of a more or less living person. And later on it gets much worse with mutilated bodies everywhere.

    Another game to play would be Diablo 2. Also gruesome imagery but more removed from the players. If your machines can’t handle Diablo 2 Resurrected, they should at least be able to run the original. And for the original you would also only need one copy between all players. But keep in mind that D2 is more action oriented.

    • qyronOP
      2•9 months ago

      Over LAN with hot seat? That would be nice.

      The intention is not to play BG3; it simply stirred some curiosity towards a different type of game and I wanted to explore that.

      Since I already own NWN and I know it runs natively on Linux, it would be a bonus. Not even considering the huge amount of mods the fan community has created for it.

    • ampersandrew
      1•9 months ago

      How does the co-op in NWN hold up these days? Let’s say if I was desperate to recreate the tabletop experience that I probably can’t really have and could get one other friend into it? I’m pretty sure that’s 3e, so does that rule set resolve the problems with magic being an OP knowledge check like it is in 2e? Does it expose enemy health and level information like BG3? Sorry for assaulting you with questions, but obviously I caught the bug since playing through the BG games.

      • Björn Tantau
        1•9 months ago

        I don’t know. It’s been over a decade since I’ve last played that game. But I heard it’s still popular.