It is time for Year 5 students to embark on their Hogwarts journey! Mobile players will be delighted to receive their acceptance letter and create the character they want to represent in the game.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a mobile game where players can create their own character and experience life as a Hogwarts student. In the narrative adventure with RPG elements, players will create a personalized student avatar, attend classes, learn magical skills and form friendships or rivalries with other students. In the game, players make pivotal decisions that influence their character’s story arc at Hogwarts. The game features a new encounter system where player decisions and actions impact their quests allowing Harry Potter fans to create their own legacy as a witch or wizard.
Whether you are collecting your textbooks at Flourish and Blotts, or attending classes with venerable professors like McGonagall, Flitwick and Snape, you will become part of the life at Hogwarts. Today, players head back to school with the commencement of Year 5 content in the game, beginning the most exciting year at Hogwarts yet, with a host of new mysteries to unravel.
Players will return to Hogwarts for their most rigorous year of studies so far, and important milestones in the curriculum. Those who earned their prefect badge in Year 4 will take on the responsibilities of the role this year, while enjoying access to a new location in the game, like the prefect’s bathroom. All Year 5 students are faced with an even bigger test than earning the badge, however: they have to take their Ordinary Wizarding Levels (O.W.L.) exams.
As Year 5 unfolds, players will head into new territory – and mischief – exploring creepy areas like Knockturn Alley. On school grounds, players will learn from new professors like the lauded, but legendarily long-winded History of Magic Professor, Cuthbert Binns. A new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor will also be revealed. Outside of classes, players cross paths with more members of the Weasley clan, and other familiar characters from the Wizarding World.
“Year 5 is a pivotal year for any student at Hogwarts, with the O.W.L. exams looming, new professors to navigate, and for some, a prefect badge on their robes,” said Amanda Heaton, Executive Producer at Jam City. “We wanted to reflect the rigors of this year in the mobile game, balanced of course, with the core extra-curricular activity at Hogwarts: unraveling mysteries with your classmates. Year 5 brings the most robust year of content yet to the game, and we’re excited for players to start this new chapter.”
Go on, download it and start playing if you haven’t already. Keep your wand at the ready!
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