Harry Potter
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery offers an immersive wizarding world experience with a compelling story and character interactions, but its enjoyment is significantly hampered by an aggressive energy system, frequent crashes, and numerous bugs that often force players to spend money or wait excessively.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a free-to-play mobile game that allows players to create their own Hogwarts story, make friends, and duel. While praised for its engaging narrative and customization, the game is heavily criticized for its restrictive energy system, which limits gameplay unless players pay or wait, and for persistent technical issues like crashes and glitches.
What users like
What users complain about
- Energy system severely restricts gameplay, requiring long waits or in-app purchasesR2R8R10R17
- Frequent game crashes and bugs lead to lost progress and frustrationR3R18R22R31
- Events are often time-limited and difficult to complete without spending moneyR23R49R69
- Lack of open-world exploration and walking, contrary to expectationsR21R50R72
- Difficulty in changing houses or restarting the gameR3R6R41R46
Latest update · v7.2.0
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
-Celebrate the SUMMER OF MYSTERY and 25th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone! Exclusive rewards, a Hogwarts Diary event and new Beyond Hogwarts Special Preview await! -NEW SPECIAL ADVENTURE! Can you manage the mischief when a Muggle ends up in Hogwarts? -NEW BEYOND SPECIAL ADVENTURE! Help Professor Lupin, Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher! -NEW SPECIAL ADVENTURE! A fierce, fiery event is coming to Hogwarts! -New Hogwarts Harvest Plant: Seasonal Hydrangea!
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Who it's for
This game is for Harry Potter fans who enjoy story-driven mobile games and are patient with waiting for energy or willing to make in-app purchases R35. It is not for players expecting an open-world experience like Hogwarts Legacy, or those who dislike aggressive monetization and frequent technical issues R21R72.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, primarily focusing on the energy system and technical issues. While the lifetime rating is high, the recent sentiment indicates a downward trajectory in user satisfaction, suggesting that these issues have become more prominent or frustrating over time.
Frequently asked
Is Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery an open-world game?
How does the energy system work in the game?
Can you change your house after starting the game?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 100 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R35] This is a THE game for potterheads, in my opinion.: I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, manly the films, but this game is great wether your a book or film fan! This game has got a great story, duelling mechanic, great customisation and makes you feel like you’re living out your own story, and years, at Hogwarts. Despite this… This game can be quite annoying, as it has a timer for certain things and m
- [R38] Brilliant: As a potter fan, I can say everything about this game is truly brilliant. The graphics are excellent, from the gameplay to the endless choices and characteristics. You can make friends and have fun along the way! The only thing I would say is wrong with this game is that you can’t put it down. Great! Download Hogwarts Mystery today if you haven’t already! Trust me, you won’t regret it!
- [R48] AMAZING GAME!!: This game lets you live your life in Hogwarts and make friends enemy’s and a cute couple! The only thing is that I keep running out of energy but it’s no prob Bcz the game gives you mini challenges where u can earn energy and sooo much more! But it’s an amazing game❤️😀I wasn’t dissapointed AT ALL
- [R74] This is a fun game: This game is amazing! The only problem is energy. But it seems that recently, they made it that you could wait. The reason I gave it five stars is because it makes up for it later. With most games, you go to a certain point, or level, and then the game stops. But with this game you can go beyond your 7th year to get a job at st Mungos, the ministry, and even hogwarts.
- [R20] Slightly disappointing: Graphics are good, storyline unexpected and gripping. Biggest trouble is being booted out. So far i cannot enter the halloween feast because everytime i try its boots me out. And it relies too much on people/ kids spending money to complete the quests. Slightly unfair given the current climate. Good but needs work.
- [R40] I love it but…: This game is the best and I love how much you can interact with other characters you can pick your house and your name and it just rly is entertaining I have been playing it for an hour straight and I haven’t got any ads the only thing is if you want to do sm you have got to use energy and it is rly annoying when I run out
- [R11] Good but too many side quests at times: I really enjoy this game and have been playing it for years (not continuously every single day, I have had long breaks) The one thing that annoys me is that sometimes as soon as you’ve finished a 4 day side quest, it then pops up with another one to start. I feel like there’s never enough time to focus on the main game, because then you want the rewards of
- [R84] Entertaining: It’s a game to play throughout the day cause you have to wait for your energy to be full, which takes about 2 hrs. The one thing I don’t really like is how frequent the side quests are appearing now, they don’t even let you focus in the main mission cause there’s too much happening. And now apparently you can replay those quests that you’ve already finished. It’s just too much somet
- [R2] One tiny thing: Love the game the characters and challenges but i don’t like that you have to wait 4 minutes for those lighting bolt things idk what they are called and you run out of them soo easily
- [R8] Amazing game… but: Game is incredible in every way, just wish it was more playable, the energy makes it hard to have more than one minute every 4 hours, sucks…
- [R10] Great game!: Okay so this is soooo fun and cheap as well I have been playing for everrrr Im in the start of yr 4 I think but I had to pay to get to this stage because I kept loosing Energy can u add a feature where when you start each lesson it tops back up to full. Also can you add lessons? And also make relationships be able to happen sooner? Anyways love the game! But I could be playing it mo
- [R17] Such fun game: This is so much fun and I’ve been obsessed with it since I started it but biggest problem is the energy. Either increase the amount of energy you get for full energy, decrease the time it takes to fill up, increase ways to get more energy or decrease the amount of tasks it get used on. I go on to play and 2 minutes later all my energy is gone half way through a task and then I have
- [R3] Do not download: This was the worst game I ever played it’s so glitchy and I want to change my house but it won’t let me .
- [R18] Game kicks me out: Every 5-10 minutes the game kicks me out and I lose progress. Losing patience with it
- [R22] Help: I love this game, however I need help as I am at the end of chapter 2 of year 3, and everytime i try to start the next chapter the game kicks me off onto my home screen, I have lots of storage on my phone and I have good connection to WiFi, how do i solve this? It keeps making me redo my classes as my progress won’t save.
- [R31] Scammers: The game needs money to advance quickly. Game constantly crashes meaning lose any progress never purchase a timed energy event. The levels are pointless and numerous after year 4 to keep you playing. Now game never loads and crashes, they have no proper help. Days of nothing, stick it.
- [R23] My opinion: Everyone has there own opinion obviously but this is my opinion of HPHM. *Energy requirements are insane and get much worse in later years, especially as JC has unfairly made the energy requirements for year 7 the same as beyond. *Most events have become impossible to complete unless spending large sums of real money to buy energy. *With all of the events going on with ALL of them t
- [R49] Review: You do not give us enough time to do the side stories, I’ve had to repeat them so much it’s actually starting to annoy me, I do not plan on wasting hundreds of pounds on this game and never will for any game, sort it out why is everything about money with apps these days can’t anything just be for fun anymore.
- [R69] Good but needs work: I love this game it’s so much fun i recommend getting it. It’s really fun but things like energy take so long to recharge. If it could recharge faster that would be nice because I spend like five minutes on the game be i never have energy. Also some of the side quests have a time limit to complete. It make me really disappointed when I get to see the ending of the story. If th
- [R21] Bad: I hate it I want an open world game with walking downs download you’ll regret it it’s so so so so so so so so SO boring
- [R50] Okay, I guess: When I got this game, it was okay but then it was you couldn’t move about you had to spend your gems on energy and it was really hard and it’s nothing like the pictures
- [R72] WHY: Okay my first complaint, ENERGY like seriously, and second, there’s such limited options to chose, and u can’t even WALK like seriously I hope this gets put on helpful so the creators can see this
- [R6] It is ok: O had this game for a while and I deleted it for a good few months and when I wanted to download it again I wanted to restart the thing but I was still on year 2 chapter 1
- [R41] Awesome game, but one issue: So, I downloaded this game like 2 years ago and I got back into Harry Potter, but I had no clue who I was and I was or what to, so I deleted and re-downloaded it but it didn’t change. I tried to change my avatar too, but I was stuck aswell as I couldn’t change my house bc I accidentally put myself in Slytherin instead of Ravenclaw (or Gryffindor, I don’t remember) but
- [R46] Great but a few problems: It is a great game I have not gone far as I am still in year2 but there is a problem with energy as you have to use it in a lot of different ways such as lessons or if you are studying. Please can you make it to have unlimited energy, 100 energy daily or at least a task could be a few mins. Another thing I which I have a problem is houses which you can't change I was goin
- [R26] Probably the best game on mobile!!!: Only thing on this game is you have to keep spending real money to level up fast apart from that it’s great
- [R36] So so: Great game, but the in app purchase prices are extortionate. Prices should be dramatically reduced and/or it should be quicker and easier to get energy.
- [R15] Harry Potter Review: Its soo fun and a very adventurous game
- [R24] My opinion: Great and addicting game. Only problem is the 4 minute energy recharge which I think should go down to 3-2 minutes because some people will get tired of waiting 4 minutes just for 1 energy and might lead them to getting rid of the game. Over all fun game just that one problem
- [R29] I like this game but…….: It’s a good game but I hate how you have to use the energy things for everything. It would be better if u can get them easier but you get one every four minutes.
Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store