Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is a mobile game for iOS and Android currently available in selected territories. It combines RPG story-telling and card-based combat and its story starts ten years after the Battle of Hogwarts.
The game was developed by Warner Bros. and NetEase under the Portkey Games umbrella and was first announced on 30 October 2019. It was released in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan regions on 9 September 2021, and was soft-launched in more territories on 31 March and 2 May 2023. It was then released worldwide on 27 June 2023. However the game will be officially closing in the America, Europe and Oceania territories on October 29, 2024. See reference.[1]
Setting[]
Ten years after Harry Potter's legendary victory over Lord Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts, a young Muggle-born receives an unexpected visit from a giant of a man by the name of Rubeus Hagrid, who has come to deliver their letter of acceptance to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hagrid explains to them about the existence of the wizarding world and accompanies them to Diagon Alley where they purchase necessary supplies for their first year. Upon arriving, however, a mystery begins to unfold on the grounds when one of the first years, Ivy Warrington, goes mysteriously missing after the Sorting Ceremony. The player thus starts their numerous adventures at Hogwarts by finding Ivy first.
Gameplay[]
Players are able to customise their character, select their Hogwarts House, attend lessons, explore Hogwarts, and join the Duelling Club. The core of Magic Awakened's gameplay is a digital-collectible card-based RTS in which spells are in the form of cards obtainable from gacha spins. The game also features ballroom dancing styled by rhythm-action gameplay as well as Quidditch matches fashioned in interactive tap-to-dodge mechanics. House competitions are also introduced in Magic Awakened. House rivalry matches are held twice a day, ranging from duels to group challenges.
Characters[]
Students[]
- Unidentified student - the player's character
- Alma
- Elliot Evers
- Kevin Farrell
- Fidelio
- Colby Frey
- Fischer Frey
- Daniel Page
- Theodore
- Robyn Thistlethwaite
- Lottie Turner
- Cassandra Vole
- Ivy Warrington
- And more.
Hogwarts staff[]
- Brindlemore
- Clodagh Dromgoole
- Albus Dumbledore (flashback)
- Archibald Eagleton
- Argus Filch
- Filius Flitwick
- Jakub Gorski
- Rubeus Hagrid
- Rolanda Hooch
- Neville Longbottom
- Elspeth MacGillony (formerly)
- Minerva McGonagall
- Concordia Rowle
- Luna Scamander
- Horace Slughorn
- Severus Snape (flashback)
- Pomona Sprout
Other[]
- Bly
- Linderina Crane
- Forbidden Forest Trader
- Gossamer
- Victor Gridley
- Qui LeBlanc
- Garrick Ollivander
- Esme Page
- Pronk
- Newton Scamander (portrait)
- Sorting Hat
- Ambrose Turner
- Simon Talmadge
- Gwydion Idris
Echoes[]
- Sirius Black
- Dobby
- Hermione Granger
- Bellatrix Lestrange
- Neville Longbottom
- Harry Potter
- Fred and George Weasley
- Ginevra Weasley
- Ronald Weasley
Portraits[]
- Ferdinand da Gama
- William de Cognac
- Viola Frierson
- Cecil Shetland
- Phineas St Gruber
- Clara Thompson
House-elves[]
- Cooky
- Ringkull
- Wigby
- Kossa
Closure[]
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The mobile game however, didn't live a long life. On October 29, 2024 (about 3 years from release date), the game shut down on several territories' servers under Warner Bros.'s registration, such as America, Europe and Oceania. At the time of writing this, only the Netease version of the game is accessible on Asian servers and some select territories.
Fortunately, all players were given the chance to transfer their accounts to the alt-version of the game. However, by the time of writing this article, you are NO LONGER able to transfer or recover your account.
A good news is if you want to play the game, a dedicated community is still on, and it is not yet abandoned. If you would like to download the Netease version of the game, click this.
Behind the scenes[]
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- There are large portions of the game mechanics where characters such as students use magic and resources in duels that cannot be seen as canon, as they are often ones that they would either have no access to, or be incapable of using. For instance, to make the combat system more engaging, the game developers have depicted characters as young as first-year students using Unforgivable Curses against their adversaries, a crime they would never have been allowed to get away with, let alone able to commit given the difficulty of said spells; as well as spells they wouldn't necessarily know about, such as the ones invented by Severus Snape (such as Sectumsempra) and wasn't common knowledge for younger generations. There are also the option to summon trolls, centaurs and even professors such as Hagrid to fight for you, the former of which would have been disinterested in following the instructions of a wizard in battle, let alone those of a child, and the latter being unlikely to combat groups of first-years at the behest of another first-year. The non-canonical state of some of these is even more obvious when multiple students summon the same individual to fight for them at the same time. There is also no known magic which would allow individuals to summon such individuals in a wizard's duel either. However, it is important to realise that this is simply a video game, which contains numerous elements which are not supposed to be considered canonical in any way, but simply exist to create enjoyment for the player.
- There were several notable changes to the story in the worldwide release after the beta period in mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan, with scenes being cut. These include:
- After the player is taken to Diagon Alley, Hagrid was going to fly the player home on his flying motorbike. When it wouldn't start, they take the London Underground instead.
- While trying to figure out where Platform Nine and Three-Quarters is, Harry Potter appears to help the player.
- During her speech before the Sorting Ceremony, McGonagall talked about a grumpy ghoul having taken up residence in an empty classroom on the third floor. This line is omitted in the worldwide release.
- The player brews the Hair-Raising Potion in Professor Slughorn's Potions class. In the worldwide release, they find Daniel trying to brew it on his own outside of class after they help him to get an ingredient in the Forbidden Forest.
- Between classes, they heard several students in a corridor talking about Ron Weasley's defeat of a troll using nothing but the Levitation Charm in his first year. When the students blocked Cassandra Vole's way to Potions class, she brusquely told them to move. In the worldwide release, the student hears this during Charms instead.
- There is a Potions class where rat tails go missing. The student encounters an Acromantula while trying to retrieve them in the Dungeons.
Production[]
- This title was also conflated as an early title for the game Hogwarts Legacy for which test footage was leaked in 2018. The existence of Hogwarts Legacy was confirmed on 16 September 2020 through the PlayStation 5 Event.
- An open beta occurred in China starting on 29 May 2020.
- In early June 2020, private beta-testing players were reportedly disappointed with the game, criticising its gameplay as repetitive and also being critical of its card-based duelling; however, the artistic design of the game was well-received.
- A formal limited test for Android players launched on 16 June 2021.
- The release month of September 2021 was announced on 31 July 2021 (CST), which is Harry Potter's birthday. The precise date, 9 September, was announced 20 days later. The release is sometimes called a "public beta", though this is usually just an alternative term for "public release" in Chinese.
- An unannounced Early Access of the global release for Android players in Ukraine started on 11 February 2022.
- Beta testing started in early July and ended on 29 July 2022.
- On 30 August 2022 at approximately 16:07 UST, the official Wizarding World YouTube channel accidently uploaded a preview, before it got deleted within 30 minutes.
- The game was originally scheduled for released in 2022, but on 16 November 2022, NetEase released quarterly financial report that stated the game was delayed from 2022 to 2023, with no specific date in mind.
- A Soft Launch for the global release was announced on 31 March 2023. During the Soft Launch, the game was released in a limited number of territories to test the gameplay and other technical specs ahead of worldwide launch. The territories included: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland. On 2 May 2023, more territories were added, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
- On 20 June 2023 it was announced that the game would be globally released on 27 June 2023. During the following week, all pre-registration goals were met.
- On 27 June 2023 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened was globally released. However, this game is unavailable in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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