Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy is an adventure game developed by Avalanche Software and released in 2023. It was published by Warner Bros. Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 45 achievements to unlock.

Hogwarts Legacy is the 70th of 75 entries we hold in the Harry Potter series. The next entry was Harry Potter: Magic Awakened in 2023. Its critic score of 85 is 25 points above the series average of 60. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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Hogwarts Legacy holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 700 votes.

The main story runs about 46.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 81.4 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $5.29, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.06 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-6600 (3.3Ghz) or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (3.2Ghz), 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB. A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. Install size is roughly 85GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $5.29 at IndieGala, 91% below its usual price. Across the 4 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $19.99 — a spread of $14.70 for an identical product. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Argentina is the cheapest region we track at $30.00 (about $30.00), while Germany pays €59.99 — 2.2 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 60 on Steam, which is about $59.99.

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Hogwarts Legacy launched on 10 February 2023, within three weeks of Atomic Heart, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Atomic Heart, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush.

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