Every Harry Potter Video Game Ranked Worst To Best

PS1 Hagrid still gives us all nightmares...

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Traveller's Tales

Where there is a successful film franchise at the box office, there is always a company out there more than willing to milk it dry in whatever way they can.

At least, that is what has been the case with the world of Harry Potter. One of the most heavily praised and popular franchises ever seen on the big screen, JK Rowling's stories have helped create a vibrant world filled with diverse characters, magical locations, and incantations that everyone would love to be able to pick up and use.

And as these worlds, these characters, and those spells became more and more popular, so too did the various video games developers such as EA began pushing out on the eve of every film in the series being released.

From reasonably challenging puzzle-based adventures Hogwarts, gimmick-heavy simulators with a Harry Potter scar slashed across it, to an all-out third person shooter, these developers have certainly done the rounds in trying to find the best way of bringing the world of magic and wizards to life, as well as the best ways of cashing in on this ever-popular franchise.

12. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

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Jam City

Harry Potter isn't the only series that has tried to make it in the lucrative world of mobile microtransactions. Fan favourite franchises such as Nintendo's Super Mario and EA's Star Wars Battlefront have both had their fingers burned by this world, but there was something about 2018's Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery that hurt more than most.

Developed by Jam City, this role-playing adventure game takes place at Hogwarts inbetween the birth of Harry Potter and his enrolment in the school. The game is somewhat of an open-world, allowing players to customise their characters in various ways, choose whether they want to attend lessons, embark on quests, battle rivals and has unique personality measurements that alter based on the interactions players have with their surroundings.

To its credit, Hogwarts Mystery does a fine job in making use of its licence, throwing in the likes of Hagrid, Snape, Dumbledore and McGonagall for players to talk to and interact with.

There's just something about aggressive microtransactions in a Harry Potter game that people can't look past. Hogwarts Mystery isn't even subtle with its cash-grabbing nature either, forcing it down player's throats constantly and actually stopping them from progressing, unless they spend big on the gems needed to burn through hours worth of session wait times.

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