Hogwarts Legacy

Absolutely Amazing Game! Thank You to EVERYONE that had a hand in making it!

The Detail is Perfect, The Story is Amazing!

GamePlay could have a small adjustment here and there in terms of mechanics Flying , but still incredible to the point of barely noticing.

The animals/magical beast are on point! Beautiful and extremely well designed.

The sound effects and voice acting is incredible and immersive to the point it feels like I'm truly there in game.

Hogwarts Castle is so well done it feels like it was pulled from my imagination.

The Forbidden forest is so incredible and alluring that it actually provides an ominous feeling.

The map is so ALIVE and vibrant, it's just stunning.

I have had no issues in that capacity game play wise or other etc, it has been a smooth and fun ride.

The Game itself truly truly felt like coming home.

Game Mods are also Awesome.

Fully and Completely Recommend playing it!

I know posting a review at this time is kinda useless, but i really spent my time to play the whole game and read the lore outside of the game and here is my point of view :
Rating: 50/100

This game survives on graphics and fanservice alone. Strip those away, and what’s left is a shallow, repetitive experience wrapped in nostalgia.
• Story? Bland and predictable. No twist, no emotion, no soul. The villain is forgettable. You’re the “chosen one” simply because… you are.
• Dark Arts? Laughable. Avada Kedavra can be cast in front of professors and classmates, and nobody bats an eye. There are no consequences, no morality system.
• Combat? Just flashy spam. No real depth, no real challenge, and enemies are brain-dead.
• Music? Copy-paste. It lacks personality and doesn’t match the magic this world deserves.
• Side quests? Filler. Long and empty, just to stretch playtime.
• “Hidden content”? Four house robes, scattered behind chests. That’s it. No hidden weapons, no real rewards.
• Moon Statues & Alohomora? Gating a basic utility spell behind 30 scattered collectibles is not “progression” — it’s artificial time-wasting. Zero engagement.
• Broom racing? Feels like flying in a fish tank. Limited height, speed, and zones. No freedom, no thrill.

Hogwarts Legacy is a castle full of visual wonder, but empty inside. A one-time tourist trip, not a meaningful adventure.

Putting aside the controversy of the author and her personal stance in life, the game has courted a lot of notoriety when it first came out. However entering it with an open mind and judging it by its own merits, you will find that the development team has done justice to the world of Hogwarts and its ip in all its glory.

If you ever wanted to feel what's it like to be part of the magical world of Harry Potter this certainly delivers I'd dare say its among the better literary to game ports you'd find of late. The gameplay is good and even for someone who don't like combat much or action platforming or broom racing, I did find it all ties nicely to the theme and game. The pacing is good, it slowly teaches you the spells, and the progress of unlocking the world is done in a systematic and well thought out manner. The main story is an interesting one, its nothing fantastic but is in line with the theme and of good vs evil and prejudices between goblin and human kind with regards to magic. There's plenty to occupy you throughout, from Merlin trials, to collections to complete, to puzzles and secrets to unlock. for any OCD out there you'd be salivating throughout and for completionists can be quite a chore, especially with a few of the achievements which makes you repeat the game. So try it out and you would find this would tide you away lost in a fantastic world of magic, wonder and childhood delight, at least for a time.

Ive had game for a while, since it was on sale a few months back. On install, there is an OPT OUT option on data mining and selling your data. Reading deeper, it mines and sells keystrokes, mouse movement, ads you interact with, websites, KEYSTROKES!!!!, The OPT out site is 3rd party, still need to agree to the opt in to play game. They claim they will delete any sold data linked to your email.
Due to this, I immediately uninstalled game! Cannot play game with this type of data mining imbedded inside. Doubt ill get a refund since its been owned for more then 2 weeks. If this is how WB does business, Ill never purchase another WB game again. Sad, I really wanted to play this game.

Exploration, graphics and collectibles are high quality. Sadly the main story has very poor pacing and very little is explained, it's looping around the trials while repeating the same lines over and over about how this situation is bad indeed. Some of the side questlines are better than the main one to be honest.

This game had such huge potential, and so many people growing up with the Harry Potter series like me probably couldn't wait for it to come out - only to see how childish, repetitive, and unfortunately, quite boring it is. I've tried playing this game, I think three times, and each time, after a few hours, I just uninstalled it.

Let's start with spells. This game is literally about the wizarding world and magic, so I was thinking (probably not only me) how many amazing spells we would be able to use here. Nope - you get like 20-something spells. With bugged mods, you can probably get up to 30. And they're nothing special. If you thought you’d be able to become another young Dumbledore, you're wrong. If you thought this game will beat Skyrim's magic system, you're also wrong. Huge disappointment.

Enemies - nothing special. But that's on me, because personally I love games where I can duel with powerful, human enemies or climb up a ladder made of them, starting with lower bosses and continuing through the game, fighting more and more powerful ones. I had high expectations and can only blame myself for thinking that once I finally got to play a game set in the Harry Potter world, I’d get to face some interesting villains similar to Voldemort or Grindelwald. But no - it's just mean goblins and not-so-evil tiny little poachers who are no match for a fifth-year Hogwarts student and get killed like flies.

Repetitive missions and side "jobs" (because they surely can't be called quests): Merlin Trials, those f***ing moths, doors with symbols and other buggers. Reminds too much annoying MMORPG quests like go collect 15 flowers or kill 20 bats. Main quests? Once you did the first trial, you can be sure the rest will be exactly the same, with just slightly more difficult puzzles to solve or bigger stone knights to defeat. Uninteresting.

Last but not least - Hogwarts, praised by many, but in my opinion, it’s just weird and not how it was described or how it should be. From the outside, it looks magnificent, just as it should - after all, they had eight movies and plenty of iconic scenes to draw inspiration from. But inside, it often feels like a strange mix of clashing styles from different eras. In the parts of the castle where they had to design things themselves (instead of directly copying from the films), it ends up looking more like some kind of Rothschild palace from the 18th century. Just weird and out of place.

Shortly, in my opinion this game doesn't have a soul. Very disappointing.

its a great game. ive played it at least 5 times each time a different house!! so cool seeing each of the houses and how they are all so different yet all beautiful in their own way. and the game play is great very immersive!

Not a Harry Potter fan – still loved it!

I went into Hogwarts Legacy with zero attachment to the Harry Potter universe. Never read the books, barely watched the movies. That said, I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this game.

The story was decent—not groundbreaking, but solid enough to keep me engaged. What really hooked me, though, was the gameplay and the world itself. The spellcasting feels great, combat is fluid, and the sheer amount of things to explore and interact with made it hard to put down. Hogwarts is packed with detail and secrets, and I found myself constantly distracted (in the best way) just roaming around.

Even without the nostalgia factor, this game stands strong. If you're into action RPGs with a rich, interactive world, definitely give it a shot.

9/10 – Would recommend, even to fellow Muggles.

Hogwarts Legacy is a visually stunning game that fully captures the magic and atmosphere of its setting. Exploring Hogwarts and its surrounding areas is an absolute joy, with incredible attention to detail that really brings the world to life.

However, while the world design is top-tier, the storytelling falls a bit flat. The story is just straight up boring, lacking the emotional depth or memorable characters that could have elevated the experience. The dialogue is particularly weak—often sounding stiff and robotic, which further disconnects players from the narrative.

Gameplay is solid, with fun spell combat, exploration, and customization options that allow you to feel like your own witch or wizard. The various side activities and secrets scattered throughout the world help make up for the story's shortcomings.

Despite its narrative flaws, Hogwarts Legacy delivers an immersive and beautiful experience for fans of the Harry Potter universe.
Rating: 6.1/10

I enjoyed this game at first, but then I realized just how repetitive it is. It's a by-the-books Ubisoft style open world game with tons of puzzles all across the map and spamming Revelio every 10 seconds. The combat is pretty fun though, even if it is simplistic.

Admittedly, I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but even if I was, I'd still be disappointed because you spend most of your time outside Hogwarts (which is really beautiful by the way) and you don't really 'feel' like a student. The rest of the map is dull and boring. The story is also pretty forgettable. At least the graphics are really good.

32 GB of RAMS, settings are all low with decent specs and the RAMS usage increase from 15 GB to 32 GB in about 20 mins of gameplay and then boom, the game crash. Try a lot of thing and nothing works so far. Sad to see an above average gameplay and story in a buggy game and all the thing the devs care is mods, not the game itself is funtional.

If you really want to buy the game, wait for it to be $10 or less because that's about what it's worth.

Capitalizes on the popularity of the Harry Potter franchise. Graphics and sound design are good and what you'd want in an open world Harry Potter game. The problems with this game are the story, difficulty, puzzles, gear, achievements, and more.

The story is just plain boring and the dialogue options have no effect on the outcome of anything. Forget trying to roleplay as anything with the dialogue.

The progression and difficulty in the game is one of the worst I've seen from high production value games. There is no sense of getting stronger against enemies in this game and instead, they all scale to your level no matter what. This leads to the problem of the hard difficulty always locking every enemy to 3-5 levels above you. Forget doing side quests to feel stronger against enemies in the main story, the fights will always take the same length no matter what.

The puzzles are interesting the first few times you find a new puzzle but once you've seen all 4-5 varieties then you get tired of it all. It doesn't help that the puzzles give you pages which is the easiest way to get XP that I've found on my own.

The chests drop gear at your level forcing you to keep opening chests to get better gear. There's nothing special about the gear other than bigger number gives more armor/damage.

The achievements are abysmal. "Collect all the things we scattered around the map to waste time" "Play through the entire game in each school to waste more time" "Do this mundane task an arbitrary amount of times to waste more time"

So far, a good game.

I haven't tweaked the graphics settings and just let the game decide for itself what it wanted to do, and the PC runs very cool indeed. The game is a little glitchy here and there, and I suspect that's it loading in stuff in to the graphics card as you wander about the map. It's a huge open world, so not surprising.

Controls, menus, and so on, are all good, with everything laid out in a sensible way. If I have one criticism it's that the skill menu is clearly for a console controller and should have been adapted for the PC. It is annoyingly limited and restricts how many skills you can access.

The game itself is like a traditional mmo without the other players! In fact, so much so, I am surprised they didn't go the extra step and make it an mmo. There are are quests you have to complete and your level and skills rise as you go along. There is a interesting background story you are trying to uncover. The game starts gently and is relatively slow pace, but if you are into the Harry Potter world then it's all fun. I'm looking forward to later stages of the game.

After a mere eleven hours, I have spend most of my time doing basic quests, exploring the school and the local town. Mostly, it's a gentle game and If you like that sort of thing, then there is a lot to do. There is some combat, but not that much so far, and that's fine by me.

Highly recommended!!

This game is like a sheet of cookies that was pulled from the oven too soon. It has the foundation for greatness, but falls short.

Special mention goes to the abysmal voice actor for male player characters. Sebastian Croft sounds like he would have rather received an ice pick lobotomy than voice the player character.

It is also rather funny how hard this game tried to court an audience that was NEVER going to buy this game. I don’t have to mention what demographic it is. You already know what features/additions I mean and what that demographic was.

A soulless game that sold well solely because it uses one of the most popular IPs out there. It's not really an RPG and is horribly unoptimized, with intrusive Denuvo on top of it.

Open World 3rd Person Adventure Action RPG.
+ beautiful graphics
+ Hogwarts itself looks and feels amazing
+ first 10 to 15 hours when everything is fresh and new

- boring story line and quests (main and side), only 1 side quest (Sebastian) was interesting and should have become the focus of the game as that side questline felt like the Harry Potter movies (1 to 3)
- too much repetition (quest and fights)
- world is too empty, to much focus to expand and bloat that world. They should have focused only on Hogwarts, Hogsmead and the Forbidden Forest
- you find every 5 minutes new clothes, they feel not rewards
- NPC have stiff faces no emotions
- No Quidditch games are in the game to participate in.
- No real school class mechanic like in the Bully game to balance attending classes and learning spells and balance it out to find out a typical Hogwarts school year mystery
I can only recommend this game at a deep sale. The first 10 to 15 hours are amazing and than it becomes a typical ubisoft like empty world collection task.

Forced consent is not consent.

The game can no longer be played without "opting in" to data collection.
Can I refund? Probably not.
Can this be changed with enough backlash? Maybe.

Declining to "opt in" will take you to a form that doesn't work.

Steam needs to intervene and remove this shit.

"Account and Contact Information: Name, phone number, postal address, email address, username, password, age, or birth date.
Payment, Purchase and Account Information: Credit, debit or other payment card information and Information about your subscription, account, purchases, or discounts.
Demographic Information: In limited cases, physical or mental health, race, or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, or political affiliation.
Location Information: coarse location (i.e., Information derived from device information associated with your IP address, city or country code, or address) or precise location for limited services and/or region-specific offerings.
Device and Other Technical Information: Information about your hardware, operating system, browser type, browser settings, your mobile carrier or Internet Service Provider, and unique identifiers associated with your device, including IP address.
Photos, Videos, or Audio Information: Images or recordings from your device or that you otherwise post or submit to us or photos or recordings of you from live experiences or events.
Usage and Viewing Information: Films, TV shows, and videos that you view (including title and genre, watchlists you compile, and searches you conduct), webpages, apps, and ads you see and interact with, as well as the accounts you link together, including recordings of your interactions with our Services, which may include mouse clicks, mouse movements, keystrokes, and page scrolling. When you use our Service, you consent to the recording of your interactions with us.
Social Media Information: Information about your social media engagement and interaction with social media sites.
Other Information You Provide: Information you provide when you use our Services or participate in our events, surveys, or promotions or when you interact with us or others on our channels, pages, and accounts on social media and other companies’ platforms. For instance, we may collect chats, comments, posts, customer service communications. We may also collect data that could be considered biometric if you choose to participate in one of our interactive research studies or other initiatives that involve the collection of this data. "

cannot for the life of me get past the seizure warning screen, game keeps crashing after launch. was so pumped to play it after finishing the download, but the hype died in a matter of 30 minutes. reinstalled, disabled firewall, added exception to windows security, checked video drivers, deleted certain folders reddit told me to try, nothing works. very unfortunate

On certain PC configurations the graphics menu will be completely blank preventing you from changing any graphics related options. This bug was supposedly introduced in the modding update and hasn't been fixed yet. The devs have acknowledged the bug but have gone radio silent on the issue since.

Until this absolutely massive game breaking bug is fixed I don't recommend this game to anyone. I have refunded my purchase until this is fixed.

your choices don't actually affect the outcome, and the game keeps crashing every time i try to use ancient magic on a boss.

Review after finishing the main story. TLDR, the story's good and the atmosphere is great. I found the game itself tedious. If you are a Potterhead and are looking for a good story, this has that.

My main gripe with the game is that it feels like at some point this was intended to be an MMO. And then later on, they decided they were not going to be able to do that so made it single player instead. There's side quests everywhere and tons of world to explore if you are into that. There is also a huge 'checklist' style approach to things to do in the overworld. There's a big emphasis on cosmetic items as well. For many people, these things are a draw but for me it just makes me tired. I didn't find much actual good reason to go out of my way to explore as all of the 'impressive' things you can find are level adjusted gear that you'll replace in a few minutes.

They did try to gate some things behind exploring. I really wasn't into this either. The worst example I can find is that your inventory slot count is tied to how many optional Merlin trials you seek out and complete in the overworld. Having limited inventory slots means that you have to stop what you are doing and arrange your inventory right in the middle of doing something more fun. Capping that and hiding the larger caps under optional things to seek out and find is certainly a choice that they made in this game; and I'm not here for that.

The story is pretty good though. The setting is prior to all of the other Wizarding World stuff I am aware of in the 1800's. You are starting the game as a new student at Hogwarts starting in their 5th year. They did find in-game justification for the world exploration checklist and map system, which I thought was cute. Hogwarts and the surrounding area are really well done too. I actually did get lost in Hogwarts a few times.

Combat is a bit like the Batman Arkham games, but you are approaching it as a wand-weilding wizard. You'll get dodge/parry prompts around your head, there's stealthy spots, you can see through walls, and sometimes you'll need to match the right spell to the right enemy action. I felt like it was more than a bit easy though. The main story has a pretty high amount of combat to go through.

So in conclusion, there's a lot for a person who is really into Harry Potter. Its getting a no from me.

They intentionally broke the game for """unofficial""" mods and only allow their curated garbage. Very anti-consumer.

I am not a die hard HP fan, but do enjoy magic and all the HP series had to offer. It was nice in the game to walk around Hogwarts, and chase the flying books, and ride your broom around, learn spells and attend classes like your really in the school. The games allot of fun, somewhere down the line tho, I just couldn't commit to it. If you like open world, and flying, and questing, and choosing dialog I defiantly would buy.

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
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☐ 10

As Harry Potter fan — yes, I would recommend it. Walking around Hogsmeade, exploring Hogwarts and casting unforgivable curses, it was fun and cool. I enjoyed my time here.
But as RPG with open world fan — I wouldn't recommend it for the full price. If you buy it on sale, it might be worth it. Game looks flat and superficially, it missing some work in details about NPCs and world in general.

But 8/10 as I love the idea of Harry Potter world based game without Harry Potter (finally). I appreciate them trying to do completely another story in this universe but it needs more work to be done. I hope they're gonna try harder on the next one.

As a long-time fan of *Hogwarts Legacy*, I am extremely disappointed with the recent 01/30/2025 patch update. The game has always had its issues, but this update takes things to a whole new level, and not in a good way.

First and foremost, the developers have completely disregarded what was stated in the Terms and Conditions during the installation. The clear promise that players’ personal information (like age, gender, or email) would remain private has been completely violated. Now, not only are players being forced to sign up for a WB (Warner Bros) account, but we're also required to link it to the game and the CurseForge mod website. This feels like an invasion of privacy, especially for a single-player RPG game. No one wants to give up their personal data for something that was perfectly fine without this forced integration.

But the worst part of this update? The mods. *Hogwarts Legacy* was one of the few games that kept the modding community alive. Mods were the saving grace for many players who wanted a more personalized experience. Now, because of WB's restrictions, many mods are no longer available through the in-game mod menu. A ton of beloved mods are completely gone, and the mods that remain are now monitored by WB. This is a terrible decision that effectively kills the game’s creative freedom and fun for many fans.

To make matters worse, the mods that i had been using before the patch are now completely broken, which essentially ruins the game for a lot of us. What was once an exciting and engaging experience is now hindered by intrusive requirements and restrictions.

In summary, I’m extremely frustrated with this update. The forced WB account integration, the destruction of the modding community, and the invasion of privacy are all bad decisions that have completely soured my experience. I urge the developers to listen to the community and reconsider forcing players to sign up for accounts and restrict modding in such a heavy-handed manner. Forcing players to share personal data just to enjoy a single-player game is not only unnecessary but also frustrating. Please, bring back the freedom that made *Hogwarts Legacy* enjoyable in the first place.

A mile wide and an inch deep. I really wish I liked this game more than I did. The long collection quests have no satisfying completion and you feel let down after searching for hundreds of hidden items only to get a minor reward. The battle is fun, but becomes very repetitive. The character quests feel like they they would have happened the same whether you were there or not. Finally the classes, which were one of the reasons I wanted this game, were over after one session.

Honestly visuals are stunning but the game feels generic. Fucking NPCs always praising you like your some kind of GOAT. Combat is aight but kind of repetitive. Quest lines are boring and all you get as a reward are better clothes. Writing is whack.

At the time of writing it's on sale, 75% off making it a 15€/$ game. For that price it's not a steal, it's armed robbery. The game is good but absolutely flawed and the ray tracing implementation is hot garbage. Let RT be off and enjoy better visuals and frame rate. Stone floor tiles that people walk on are not mirrors, come on Avalanche you know this.

The story is OK, voice acting ranges from solid to "one take from a fiverr VA" bad, minor quests are often stale (except for "that" quest in Hogsmeade which is FANTASTIC, if you know you know).

I've completed just about everything in the game save the peak completionist tasks. Without looking I'd say I'm at 97%-ish, and I really don't recommend doing that.

The game's strength lies in the open world, scenery, exploration and combat. Combat isn't difficult and once you've made your final build it's fairly repetetive, but it's so satisfying and flashy that I still had a great time with it.

I've run into my fair share of bugs, even softlocked the game once. Some quest decisions will make characters dislike you, vendors may shun you. I managed to talk to a vendor between quest completion and "shun trigger" which locked most of the game, such as dialogue, flying, audio, map etc. Luckily I could jump so my one and only game death came from resetting the game to last auto save via a very helpful cliff.

All in all, I wish I had spent 10-15h less in my playthrough to optimize the fun I could have had. Maybe playing this after two playthroughs of Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't setting up the voice actors for success either.

I'm giving it a 7/10 and recommend grabbing it on sale.

O my joy when this game finally went on sale. O my anger when I received a laggy mess WITH NO GRAPHICS OPTIONS.
1/10 - FIX THIS
1 Point because u can pet the cats

Forced DLSS that makes the game look like smeary/blurry mess and the cherry on top below:

WB GAMES EULA

6. Consent to Monitor
When the Game is running, WB Games, its affiliates or its contractors may monitor your System for uses that violate the Limited License Section. You hereby grant WB Games, its affiliates and its contractors permission to monitor your System for purposes of identifying such use and communicating potential violations to WB Games. WB Games, its affiliates and its contractors are under no obligation to monitor your System.

Hm, weird vague grey area EULA that doesn't go into exact detail as to what they monitor. Why the fuck do I need to be 'monitored' to play a single player game? Fuck off.

This is a great game, the world is quite vast and expansive, very nostalgic for those who have read the books and watched the movies, especially the highly engaging combat system. In short, it's worth playing and worth buying (especially when there's a discount hehe)

Super boring and uninteresting game. I found the story got in the way of my immersion, there were so many cutscenes that the game felt broken up, I did not want to sit there and watch a movie. The combat was miserable, I spent the whole game spamming the same 4 buttons stun locking the enemies until their HP went to zero. There was no real challenge, I couldn't wait for it to be over.

Really enjoyed playing this game but a recent update forces you to agree to give personal information to WB. The only option is to agree to the terms which allows WB access to a huge amount of data. Will keep an eye on updates as I hope they remove this setting and let me play the game I paid for.

Dodgy privacy agreement - not signing that. I am pretty sure what it is asking is illegal too. Would rather refund...

Games should not have data collection launchers. If they do, and offer an opt-out, they shouldn't make it where you have to ENTER YOUR EMAIL to opt out on a website. And then the game launcher doesn't let you continue, even though you did what they said to opt out.

While this game has been out a while, I wanted to leave some thoughts. Unless you are a major Harry Potter fan, DO NOT BUY!!!!! This game is incredibly mediocre, and while the map is beautiful everything else just feels pretty lackluster: no-one reacts to your actions even when you're using forbidden curse's (a house system would have helped), the story is pretty boring as a generic 'chosen one' story, and the combat isn't that fun to me.

- viasual and lore details is 10 of 10
- gameplay 4/10
- boooring 10/10

realy butiful museum game with a lot of great details from HP lore, but without intersting chracters, plot, or anything else what any game should have.

All in all. It gets boring realy fast. The world is great and the locarions are nice to see. But the game loop is meh at best.

Went into this game not expecting much. But the game is a hidden gem. It scratches the itch of experiencing the Wizarding world.

The graphics are gorgeous and really show off the beautiful Scottish landscape. The particle effects look so good when casting spells. Even the characters look great. It perfectly encapsulates the look and feel of Hogwarts.

The game-play is quite fun in the beginning. It gets repetitive towards the end as there isn't really much enemy variation. The game can get pretty tough and it really doesn't hold your hand in the higher difficulties. Overall its a fun experience to kit out your character with a selection of wands, brooms, mythical beasts and a load of fun hats

The major issue I have with the game is the poor optimization. The game runs poorly depending on the hardware you have. It's pretty unfortunate considering it is really fun and the graphics are really good. It seems to perform more consistently on less powerful hardware in my experience. The moment I upgraded my setup the problems got significantly worse.

Summary: The game is fun and looks insanely gorgeous. If you can overcome the performance issues. It's for sure a great gem to have in your collection

Extremely shady data collection policy added more than 2 years after release. WB execs are worse than locusts. Do not buy this game. They ask for any and all data to be collected from your system while holding WB exempt from any reciprocal lawsuit or accountability.

Boycott this game and ask for a refund while you're at it.

WB is out of their minds by not allowing us paid customers to not agree with a very illegal personal data collection.

-Photos, Videos, or Audio Information: Images or recordings from your device or that you otherwise post or submit to us or photos or recordings of you from live experiences or events.

-recordings of your interactions with our Services, which may include mouse clicks, mouse movements, keystrokes, and page scrolling. When you use our Service, you consent to the recording of your interactions with us.

-Social Media Information: Information about your social media engagement and interaction with social media sites.

-we may collect chats, comments, posts, customer service communications. We may also collect data that could be considered biometric

-Usage and Viewing Information: Films, TV shows, and videos that you view (including title and genre, watchlists you compile, and searches you conduct), webpages, apps, and ads you see and interact with, as well as the accounts you link together

WTF!? your insane!

Ya know how CoD and sports game franchises release terrible titles each year but casual players still buy them because its the only thing like it on the market and because these players have no frame of reference for what a good game is? That's kinda what happened with Hogwarts Legacy.

This game is mediocre at best, with a forgettable story, beautiful but static environments, horrendous looking facial animations, terrible performance, out of place and annoying character cosmetic and inventory systems, bland and repetitive side content, and the travesty that is Nearly Headless Nick's voice acting. And yet, a bunch of Potterheads who probably haven't played too many games before ate this shit up. In the end I can't really blame them, this is the only modern officially licensed game that lets you experience student life at Hogwarts, but I wish there was more of an overlap between avid gamers and Harry Potter fans, because then there would be more demands for the game that this franchise actually deserves instead of acceptance of a mediocre one.

there are definitely changes I would suggest regarding the bosses, the storyline and the way loots appear in the menu, but overall it is a good exploration and adventure game. I just hope that for the price point and the importance of the story behind it, it would have been more carefully designed.

Bought the game late last year, made a character, but only this past week got around to playing.

After a recent update, you are now forced to agree to the game selling personal information. There is a visible "Do not sell or share my personal information" button; however, clicking it redirects to a website unavailable in the country I am currently in.

I won't be playing unless this is resolved in-game (and I'm not counting the manual opt-out form that has been posted on the forums which also doesn't load). If there is continues to be silence on this topic from the developers I'll be requesting a refund as I'm still below the 2 hours played.

This game forces you to agree to giving your personal info in order to play. uninstalling permanently and seeking a refund. seeing this often along with many games infected with ads. it's a shame to see so many games trying to force info and money from us.

Used to play it on a other steam account for more than 20 hours,lost that account and decided to buy it on my new one. Sadly the changes with policy and privacy make the game unable to be played if u value your privacy..

No graphics options. This has been an issue for over a month. How does a major AAA game studio have such a major bug persist for a significant portion of its players for that long without doing or saying anything about it. Wtf.

WB recently updated the game and made it unplayable. Thankfully I already completed the story, but this destroys any interest I have in sequels. I don't use mods, my computer is very capable of managing this game, it is purely a technical problem for WB.

I am not really a big fan of single player games nor am I a Harry Potter fanboy, but DAMN was this game good! The scenery and the combat is what did it for me. I've never really felt more immersed into a game than this one. The world was beautiful. You got to experience it in all 4 seasons. The Hogwarts castle was a master piece. The amount of detail and design that went into this game is something that all games should aim for.

I finished the main story and about 40% of the extra challenges and side quests in 25 hours. There's tons to do. The spell combos made me look forward to battles. The combinations of gear traits, talents and spells made for a unique fighting experience from any other game. The world's graphics and side-content made me get distracted from my main objective. The personalized 'room of requirements' player house was amazingly customizable and beautiful.

The only thing I think this game could have done better was better choice opportunity and NPC interaction. (We should have been able to bag Prof. Garlick)
I'd give this game an 8.5/10 where as I would give Skyrim a 9/10.