Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world RPG from Avalanche Software (Salt Lake City, USA, not to be confused with the Swedish Avalanche Studios, makers of Just Cause) under the Portkey Games imprint of Warner Bros. Games. Released on 10 February 2023 on PC/PS5/Xbox Series. The story is set in the 1890s, a century before Harry Potter: no Harry, Hermione or Ron, and Dumbledore is still a student. The player creates a custom 5th-year student, a late transfer to Hogwarts with a rare gift for ancient magic.

The Sorting Hat places you in one of 4 houses (Gryffindor / Slytherin / Ravenclaw / Hufflepuff). The choice affects the quests available only to each house. The main story is built around Ranrok's goblin rebellion and the mystery of ancient magic. Besides the main line there are lessons in potions, transfiguration, astronomy and other classes with named professors. Your personal mentor in ancient magic is Professor Fig.

The map covers Hogwarts without loading breaks (10+ floors with moving staircases and the Room of Requirement as an equipment workshop), Hogsmeade with shops and villagers' quests, the mountainous Scottish Highlands with troll caves and goblin fortresses, the Forbidden Forest with centaurs and thestrals, and a sea coast with merpeople. The most convenient way to travel to distant locations is on a hippogriff or a thestral.

The combat system combines three categories of spells: defensive and support (Protego, Stupefy, Levioso), offensive (Confringo, Incendio, Bombarda) and the Dark Arts: Cruciatus, Imperius and Avada Kedavra are unlocked in the main campaign as a player's choice, with no moral lock. The key distinctive mechanic is ancient magic attacks, which other open-world RPGs do not have.

In terms of localization the game is at level 2: subtitles and interface are translated into Russian, there is no official voice-over, only eight languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese). WB Games has not dubbed HP games into Russian since 2003, which is a deliberate studio policy and not a consequence of 2022. A free fan voice-over by GamesVoice (December 2023) with live actors exists via gamesvoice.ru, and it is not included with the key.

The game has sold 40M+ copies by December 2025 (30M by October 2024, 34M by March 2025, according to WB Games), and first-year revenue exceeded $1 billion without in-game purchases. On release day 879,308 people played at the same time on Steam, the third result among single-player AAA games of all time after Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077. Metacritic 84 on PC, Steam rating "Very Positive" (~91% of ~140,000 reviews in 2026).

Since June 2024 the free Haunted Hogsmeade Shop update has been available on all systems, and this quest was previously available only on PS5. The expanded Definitive Edition was cancelled by WB in 2025; the studio's resources were redirected to a full sequel from Avalanche Software, which is currently in active development without online monetization mechanics.

Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world RPG set in the wizarding Britain of the 1890s, a century before Harry Potter. You play as a custom 5th-year student with a rare gift for ancient magic; you choose a house (Gryffindor / Slytherin / Ravenclaw / Hufflepuff) and explore Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest and the mountainous Scottish Highlands. Russian subtitles and interface, official voice-over in English only. 40M+ copies by December 2025; the free Haunted Hogsmeade Shop update for all systems (June 2024).