Customer Ratings & Reviews

Some glitches in the beginning but it’s a great game. Sad that they aren’t doing any DLCs for it though

One of the best games this year. This is a must have for any Harry Potter fan and gamer. Excellent story fluent controls… maybe game of the year material.

This game definitely was a work of art , and a great addition to the harry potter gaming franchise , the open world and the customization was good

Have been playing hours and keep finding new things to fall in love with the gane even more. Nowhere near done and still have a lot of territory to discover.

Wow. This needs to be game of the year. Incredible the graphics and never ending map. I love it!!

10/10! Graphics are phenomenal and the game play is excellent. I’m addicted to this game! If you haven’t already, it’s a must buy if you’re a fan of Hogwarts!

I don't have words for this game, it's so perfect the World Wizard Harry Potter it's so perfect everything make perfect every detail. PERFECT

Literally a dream game for any Harry Potter fan, beautiful and combat does take a little to get used to but once you do, its a blast from start to finish

Fun game. Very quick to complete the main story. Lots of minigames and puzzles. Interesting story line. Nice to explore the hogwarts castle.

I wasnt really gonna get the game until more gameplay started to be shown! This is a wonderful game with a lot of care taken and i couldn't ask anymore.

Hogwarts has been an amazing opening game into what could be a great franchise! Plenty of references to the books and movies for long-term fans to enjoy.

I was happy that they had it in stock and ready to pick up right away it was very quick and nice interaction 100% recommend the game itself is amazing

I was honestly surprised by how much fun I’m having with this game. The combat can become a bit repetitive but mixing up combos makes it feel exciting.

I have yet to complete the game, but the hour I have played so far is awesome. This game really does a great job bringing you into the wizarding world.

Amazing great wonderful spectacular amazing great amazing

Overall this is a very fun game, and pretty much what you'd want from a game in the Harry Potter world. While it seems huge, you learn pretty fast that it's really, really repetitive. The first few hours are an absolute blast for wizarding world nerds like myself. You can import your information from the wizarding world website if you have an account there and have done all the various quizzes, sorting, etc, so that's cool. You also don't have to do that at all if you don't wish to, or you can do both since you can have multiple characters, and each house has its own 'beginning' story, though eventually every house's starting quest will dovetail into the same quest. I've still only played one character, so no idea if there are other unique quests for each house. Hogwarts itself is, in a word, stunning. I spent the first several hours just running around exploring the various areas I had access to (which is quite a lot, even when first starting). There are lots of interesting areas and cool little details throughout Hogwarts, and the humor present in the books is here and there throughout Hogwarts, both in conversations you'll overhear, or just funny details about some of the displays (my favorite joke involves the "house elf armor"). The basics of the 'storyline' are that you are a new student but will be starting as a '5th year' due to your age, so you're given a field guide to Hogwarts so you can catch up with the students that started as first years. The only problem is that, due to a mishap, it's missing a lot of pages. Not to worry though, they can be found while exploring the world, with the vast majority of missing pages to be found in Hogwarts itself. Here's one small issue I had--some of the field guide pages are fantastic and describe an aspect of the school or world in interesting, and sometimes very funny, detail. Buuuuut....some of them are just blank pages, so you're collecting them as something to fill time, rather than enrich the world. There are HUNDREDS of them, too, but less than half have any kind of text to them. That's a lot of time filler, and it starts to feel like a chore rather than the fun of reading the descriptions. I'd have much preferred if they'd just cut down the number and left only the ones that add to the game. This is my biggest issue with the game overall (though there are other issues I'll get to)-- on the surface it seems like there's a lot to do, but almost all of it ends up feeling very repetitive. There are a handful of different enemy models, and then everything you fight is basically higher-level versions of those same models. Many games use this type of system, but the lack of variety becomes very noticeable after a while throughout almost every aspect of the game. Magic combat is fun, but does get a little complicated with having to swap spells out all the time depending on the situation or enemies you're fighting. The game mitigates this with spell wheels that allow you to set up a few different quick spell slots--- if you put your talent points (pretty standard system where talent points are earned as you level up) towards that talent. You probably will out of sheer frustration the 10th time you forgot to add the invisibility spell and ended up casting a light spell instead...and the fact that there simply aren't a lot of "useful" talents available. A couple are absolutely must haves, the rest are 'meh'--maybe they improve the damage, but it's hard to tell for sure due to the way combat works. Combat is interesting and maybe the most immersion breaking thing in the game. I'm halfway through my first year at Hogwarts and I'm taking out wave after wave of bad guys without even breaking much of a sweat. Granted, some of this is due to the video game standard 'chosen one who can wield great power!!!' aspect of the storyline. The rest seems to be just a matter of bad scaling and enemy AI. I feel like dogs or certain enemies (scouts, etc) should be able to detect me more easily when I'm invisible (also pretty standard in games with stealth aspects), but really it almost feels random--certainly any enemy when turned directly towards me seems able to eventually detect me, but I haven't noticed any one creature being better at it than another. The absolute most 'world-breaking' thing in the game is the inclusion of 'curses'--supposedly banned and, from what many NPCs say, are a huge deal if you cast them. Then the game teaches them to you (not a spoiler as they're present on your spell bar almost immediately, just 'greyed out' if you haven't learned them yet) and you can use them on any enemy you choose and --while certain enemies will yell about you using them--the game, school, teachers, etc., don't even mention your use of them, even when you use them in front of other students or teachers. Even though this is, ostensibly, an RPG set in the Wizarding World, your decisions (such as using curses) don't really seem to affect anything. There are 'rude' choices in dialogue, but even those don't seem to affect outcomes much--other than if you decide to keep a fetched quest item rather than give it back to the person requesting it, then you get to keep it. They grumble, but there's no 'reputation' to worry about at all and even the person whose item you kept acts like nothing happened after the quest is complete. That lack of affecting things with your choices is a very odd decision, considering the books and movies absolutely revolve around the decisions characters make as the story unfolds (Draco’s story perhaps being the best example, for those of you familiar with the books). In this game you're along for the ride, but the story's going to play out the predetermined way no matter what you do. The game itself plays impressively well, with very few bugs I've seen. The one I have notices are mostly weird visual glitches, but occasionally you'll have something bigger (one teacher I needed to turn a quest into was not under her 'dialogue square'--this one was common enough that I found a work around online)--I've had one 'crash' in 50+ hours of gameplay to this point. Since it is very much an 'open world' RPG --particularly once you get your broom very early in the game--there are annoyances that come with that aspect present everywhere--you'll 'out run' quests and discover quest items before you have any idea what they're for-but the game does helpfully put them in your 'quest item' inventory, so at least you'll know that you will need it for something to come later. Aspects like this make that freedom as much of a curse as it is exhilarating. Aside from the combat aspect there are a few other things that seem off balance the longer you play. There are times when there is far too little guidance about what to do. Treasure maps are sort of cool, but almost seem like an after-thought as there’s very little guidance, and if you don’t immediately recognize an area then you may or may not find it later—if you even remember you have the map, and the quest doesn’t get ‘lost’ in your list of quests. Other times when the game takes you by the hand and tells you exactly what to do. Hints about obvious things seem abundant, and then you'll find yourself looking around for even the smallest clue about what you should do to complete a task, or even HOW to go about completing a task that characters are mentioning like you've known how to do it for a long time. The dialogue seems plentiful for about an hour, then you'll start to notice phrases that sound familiar. At 20 hours or so you will absolutely want to murder the floo powder lady, or at least start praying for a patch that gives you the option to shut her up. When they only recorded four or five phrases for her (AT MOST) it's really kind of odd that they decided to have her say something every single time you're within 20 feet of her many travel points. The same thing happens with the many, MANY vaults or ruins in the game. Your character has ‘trigger’ phrases that they’re obviously supposed to say whenever they get within range of certain points…but there are only maybe two or three (you’ll be saying “does it get any more cozy than Hogsmeade?” in your sleep) and you say them EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. The game is gorgeous whether it's day or night, you're inside or outside and in Hogswart, Hogsmeade or anywhere else on the massive map. Even on the high detail settings on the PS5 it's been incredibly smooth. Lots of enemies, huge battles, etc, led to no noticeable game performance issues , so well done there! Again, it's essentially an RPG set in the wizarding world (which, great!) but unfortunately the story doesn't make a ton of sense--at it’s core it’s an extremely basic and rote ‘for some reason you’re super-powerful’ storyline that most every RPG has in some form or other (and is the usual explanation for why you can murder thousands of people while barely taking a scratch), but as a Wizarding World story it’s just not a great fit—unless, of course, you’re not familiar with HP or the WW and then it will just feel like more standard RPG that needs balancing. Overall I absolutely loved this game the first few hours of running around and exploring, and that’s a real testament to the game design….but unfortunately it’s actually gotten a little boring now and feels a lot like I’m ‘checking off boxes’ to clear out the map (think Far Cry or similar open world game) with things that, unfortunately, aren’t all that interesting to clear. This was way longer than I intended it be when starting, so a quick summary for any of you tl;dr people: It’s beautiful, mostly bug free, and lots of fun to explore for Wizarding World fans…for a while, but can quickly become tedious as nearly everything in the game is repeated ad nauseum throughout.

This game looks amazing. I'm not a huge potter fan but for this game u don't need to be. Visuals are amazing gameplay is good. Definitely a must buy.

One of the best games I've played. Not even the biggest fan of Harry Potter. Still loads of fun. Graphics on this are incredible. Flawless experience.

I’ve waited decades for a Harry Potter game like this. Amazing characters, beautiful recreated world that makes you feel like you’re in the books.

Truly a must own for any gammer. The graphics are superb with outstanding soundtrack and a definite well detailed storyline. Recommended highly.