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Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
Hogwarts Legacy is a magic, open world and fantasy game
developed by Avalanche Software
and published by Warner Bros. Games.
Released on February 10th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 321,395 reviews of which 289,966 were positive and 31,429 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 (3.3Ghz) or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (3.2Ghz)
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 85 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD (Preferred), HDD (Supported), 720p/30 fps, Low Quality Settings
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This review is from a non–Harry Potter fan who ended up loving the Harry Potter world! I had never watched any of the Harry Potter movies before playing this game, nor did I manage to finish the Harry Potter novel that one of my teachers had gifted me. Looking at the reviews and some interesting shorts on YouTube, I bought this game thinking I might abandon it just like many other games in my library, but to my surprise I got interested in the Harry Potter world right from the very start of the game, where I had to answer questions and get into one of the Houses, i also ended up watching all the movies just after completing the first few quests. The gameplay is fun and very repetitive at the same time, and might get boring unless you encounter new enemies or unlock new spells. The gear and equipment system is one of the most useless features in the game that should have never been there. The world is fantastic and dynamic, with many interesting things scattered all around. The art style is amazing — gives Red Dead Redemption vibes with its polished graphics. The story is not that interesting; the threat doesn't seem that big and there is nothing at stake (there is actually, but it doesn't give that feeling at all). For me the performance was fine with DLSS and Intel’s FG, with no lags, good frametime, and 100 FPS on an RTX 3060 with Medium to High settings. Overall, the game is pretty fun when it comes to exploring new areas on the map, trying out new spells, seeing new people and enemies, but quests become boring at times and gameplay is repetitive. Still, it is definitely worth buying and immersing yourself into the Harry Potter world.
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let me live my wizard dreams… mostly by blowing myself up with my own spells Spent 10 percent learning magic and 90 percent looting every cabinet in the castle Beautiful world, great spells, terrible for my sleep schedule. 10/10 still waiting for my owl
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The biggest problem with Hogwarts Legacy is that after the initial excitement, the game quickly becomes repetitive and empty. Wasted Potential of Hogwarts: The castle is gorgeous, but underused. You only spend a few hours inside, classes and professors have only few cutscenes, and there are only three puzzles throughout the entire school. For a game set in Hogwarts,this is wasted potential. Repetitive Filler Everywhere: The open world is stuffed with Merlin Trials (95 of them), bandit camps, and countless caves that all look the same. The loot is almost always useless, and minigames that could’ve been fun just repeat endlessly. What starts as discovery turns into chores. Combat Without Variety: You’re stuck fighting the same four enemy types (goblins, trolls, spiders, and humans) on repeat. Spells should open up creative strategies, but in reality, the system pushes you toward spamming the same few effective combos. Shields force you into matching colors instead of experimenting. Enemies never actually catch you off guard, and boss fights are just damage sponges with recycled mechanics. The game makes you feel powerful, sure, but not in a satisfying or tactical way more like a button-masher. Story and Choices Don’t Matter: The main story can be summed up in five minutes: you’re the chosen one, and that’s it. Side quests are more interesting than the main quest, but none of your choices matter. Learn unforgivable curses or not nobody cares. House reputation? Doesn’t exist. Freedom is an illusion, because the world never reacts to you. I had fun but i would recommend buying it only in sale 6/10 Even if I just hate it, I genuinely had fun during the first 20 hours. I was running home from work to play it. But after the 20-hour mark, you start to see all the bad parts, and they keep layering on.
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Hogwarts Legacy is a dream come true for Harry Potter fans. Exploring the castle, flying a broom, and learning spells feels magical. The attention to detail in Hogwarts and the open world is breathtaking.
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Right, as a lifelong gamer and newbie game developer, this is my first review ever. I felt compelled to write this, not because it's a good or bad game, but because my feelings are so mixed. I first bought this game on Xbox and I played it all the way through. I've completed all of the story lines, side quests and challenges. If you're playing this game on a console or the PC version without mods, let me just say this: the highs are highs and the lows are lows. Experiencing Hogwarts for the first time on this game truly has you in awe. The problem is that towards the second half of the game, you barely spend any time there. To that end, the map is way bigger than I think anyone anticipated. For people who really love to explore, this is something that you'd enjoy. Personally though, I would've enjoyed having a smaller map with a few big cities as opposed to just Hogsmead. Some of the towns, though they are unique in nature, start to feel a bit copy and pasted with how equally small they all are. Other than that - the quest lines, graphics and mechanics are overall nothing short of awesome. HOWEVER, the game play itself starts to fall off right around the time you begin to learn unforgivable curses. I found that even on hard mode, enemies were still too easy to defeat. I personally dislike the fact that "dark wizards" don't use unforgivable curses against you. I also dislike that if you do use an unforgivable curse or respond negatively to quests, there's no negative impact or outcome. It's almost kind of like, aside from a cool lock screen animation, what's the point in even using these curses? This is where mods come in. The problem is that you can only use mods on PC; but thankfully, the game does have a built-in mod manager for PC players. It should also be noted that it's relatively easy to request custom mods from creators because they've made the Hogwarts Legacy Creator Kit in Unreal Engine completely free for anyone to download and use; and as a developer myself, that alone speaks volume about how much the developers want this community to have the experience they desire. But to answer the overarching question of "do you recommend this game," my answer is yes and no. If you are a potterhead like I am and are considering buying it on the console, then you'll enjoy it through and through. If you are not though, you're likely to lose interest half-way through; but if you are able to run this on a PC, I ***highly*** recommend doing so with mods that fix the aforementioned issues. Below is my recommendation for mods and why you'd want them based on your gameplay style: [*] Enhanced NPC Schedule is simply a MUST for everyone. It populates Hogwarts with more students that run on a much better in-game schedule that is aligned with classes. So for example, if a class ends, you can see a visible group of students that look like they just got out of class. This is in opposition to just seeing random NPCs in random places. My guess is the reason why this wasn't a thing on the original game is due to limitations on console performance capabilities; because more NPCs, the higher requirement for processing power. But I mean if you have a desktop in general, this won't be an issue. I just think they kept the requirements as minimal as possible so that it made it more accessible to a bigger player base. [*] Azkaban, Enemies Enhanced, and Enemies Balance are going to be fantastic for those who enjoy a challenging PVP style like I do. Spells enhanced is an honorable mention here, too. [*] The Azkaban mod works similar to GTA in the sense of if you do something bad (e.g., use an unforgivable curse in front of a good witch or wizard), you get reported and the authorities chase after you. In this case, aurors spawn all around you and you have to fight your way out. If you get caught, the mod will provide you with options: go to Azkaban where you can attempt to fight your way out, or you can skip that and still respawn from the last check point. [*] The Enemies Enhanced allows enemies to also use unforgivable curses; and yes that includes the killing curse, so there's a very real possibility that you can be one-shot by a dark witch or wizard. [*] The Enemies Balanced mod makes so the enemy NPCs scale better in terms of gameplay difficulty. If this is your first time playing this game, I would hold off on enabling that until you've found your groove. [*] Spells Enhanced is a mod that provides you with custom spells. Personally, if it were my first time playing this game, I wouldn't enable this mod until at least the second half of the game. The reason why is because some of those spells are immediately available to you, which makes a lot of the quests easier to complete because you have more spells than you're supposed to. It could also make learning the basic mechanics of the game a tad more confusing than it needs to be. [*] Auto-season, Hogwarts Express Train Plus, House Points, Sleep Mod are strongly recommended for players who desire an immersive experience, with the Curfew mod being an honorable mention. [*] The game doesn't cycle through seasons (e.g., winter, fall, spring, summer) on it's own. It only changes after completing a major quest-line. The auto-season mod makes it so it naturally changes with the in-game clock. The Hogwarts Express train is also pretty rare to see in the original game, but the Hogwarts Express Train Plus mod makes it run on a more frequent schedule. I personally don't know why either of these weren't already a thing, but I don't have to understand I suppose. [*] The house point mod is pretty much what you'd expect it to be, it allows for the player to collect house points to win the house cup at the end of each season (so it pairs very well with the auto-season mod). If you complete the weekly quests assigned to you, you gain points. If you respond kindly to relationship (side) quests that take place with other students, you gain points. If you respond negatively to to a student, you lose points (ah finally, a consequence for your actions). [*] The sleep mod doesn't necessarily require you to sleep at night, but it does make it difficult for you to play the game if you don't. For example, if you don't sleep, you can't sprint. The reason why I like both the house point and sleep mod is because it gives you a reason to continuously go back to Hogwarts on a regular schedule in the second half of the game, in opposition to you're just a random student roaming around in the woods for however long doing whatever; but if that's your preference of game-play, then I'd just suggest only sticking with the auto-season mod. [*] The curfew mod is an honorable mention because you don't really need it per-say if you have the sleep mod since it basically forces you to sleep at night anyways, BUT the curfew mod itself does make it so if a prefect or professor catches you out of bed at night on school grounds, you'll be sent back to your dormitory with a consequence of paying an in-game fee. The mod does have it's own hotkey menu that can be used to disable it in-game; so if anything it's worth downloading, even if you end up disabling it later. [*] For those who enjoy sandbox building gameplays, get these: [*] Bigger Vivarium - increases creature capacity [*] Rescue Animals - rescue non-magical creatures [*] Unlock All Conjurations - unlocks all build items [*] Remove Conjure Budget - removes moonstones as a budget requirement [*] Conjuration Everywhere - allows room of requirement item conjuration [*] Remove Conjure Placement Restrictions - allows for items to be stacked on one another, similar to a bb.moveobjects on The Sims. Honorable mentions: Floo Companions, Emote with Any NPC, Character Editor, Cheat Plus, Alohormora Autosolve and Instant Silent Bigger Revelio.
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Hogwarts Legacy is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.
Hogwarts Legacy is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 59.99€ on Steam.
Hogwarts Legacy received 289,966 positive votes out of a total of 321,395 achieving a rating of 8.93.
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Hogwarts Legacy was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Games.
Hogwarts Legacy is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Hogwarts Legacy is not playable on MacOS.
Hogwarts Legacy is not playable on Linux.
Hogwarts Legacy is a single-player game.
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Hogwarts Legacy does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Hogwarts Legacy does not support Steam Remote Play.
Hogwarts Legacy is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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