12 Best Games Like Harry Potter for Wizarding Fans (2026)

Fans waited 15 years for a real Hogwarts game. Then Hogwarts Legacy shipped in February 2023, and the wizarding-game shelf finally has a centerpiece. We spent about 40 hours across Hogwarts Legacy, Little Witch Academia, Fable Anniversary, Magicka 2, and Waltz of the Wizard on PC, PS5, and Quest 3. This list covers the 12 best picks as of April 2026.

#What Counts as a Game Like Harry Potter?

We used three tests when picking titles. First, the game needs wand-based or hand-cast spellcasting with at least five distinct spells you actually choose between. Second, it needs a magical world: castles, dragons, hidden villages, potion brewing, or all of the above. Third, it needs a progression arc where you go from a weak apprentice to a competent wizard, ideally with a mentor or a school.

Not every game respects those rules.

Broomstick League has no real story, but riding a broom in a league match scratches the Quidditch itch better than anything else we tried. Waltz of the Wizard has no school at all, but the VR wandwork is close to what every kid pretended to do with a stick in the backyard when the third film came out.

Games we dropped: Bully, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Skyrim itself. If you want a sprawling fantasy world instead of a strict wizarding one, our games like Skyrim roundup covers that space, and our games like Witcher 3 piece pulls in more magic-adjacent RPGs.

#Hogwarts Legacy: The Only Real Harry Potter Game

Hogwarts Legacy is the game fans waited 15 years for. You play a fifth-year transfer student in the late 1800s, sort into one of the four houses, learn spells in classes, and roam a roughly 1:1 recreation of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. The Hogwarts Legacy Wikipedia entry confirms that the game sold 12 million copies in its first two weeks, making it the best-selling game of 2023 in the United States.

Combat hinges on chaining spells.

We tested it on PS5 with performance mode locked at 60 fps. Accio pulls, Incendio burns, Depulso blasts, and you collect about 30 spells across the 25-hour main story. The Forbidden Curses unlock if you lean into the morally gray side. According to the Hogwarts Legacy Steam page, supported platforms are PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.

What it gets right: castle exploration, the four house common rooms, the Room of Requirement customization, and broom controls. What it misses: no multiplayer and no actual Quidditch matches.

#Spellbreak: Magical Battle Royale (Shut Down)

Spellbreak is dead. It released in September 2020 as a free-to-play battle royale where you chain elemental spells (fire, frost, wind, stone, lightning, toxic) to fight down to one wizard standing. Proletariat’s combat felt closer to an anime duel than a first-person shooter, which was exactly what fans of magical combat wanted.

The Spellbreak Wikipedia article confirms that Proletariat announced in June 2022 that Microsoft had acquired the studio and that Spellbreak servers would shut down on January 24, 2023. Servers stayed online for a few months after that for wind-down, then went dark.

The lesson from Spellbreak: check servers are live before you buy. Mage Arena on Roblox fills a similar niche today.

#Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time

Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time is a 2018 action-RPG based on Studio Trigger’s anime series. You play Akko, a clumsy first-year at Luna Nova Magic Academy, and explore the school, brew potions, cast spells, and fight through dungeons with your two friends Sucy and Lotte. It runs on PS4 and PC, with the Steam version sitting around $15 during sales as of April 2026.

In our testing, the 2.5D dungeon combat felt tight once you unlock the dash mechanic about two hours in. The 3D academy exploration maps are about half the size of a typical Hogwarts floor: small, but dense. The main story runs around 15 hours if you skip side quests, closer to 25 if you complete them all. The Little Witch Academia Steam page lists the game as supporting both dubbed and subbed audio across multiple languages.

Pick this if you want the Hogwarts school-life loop without the open-world scope. It’s short, it’s charming, and the art style holds up better than most 2018 releases we revisited last year.

#Fable Anniversary and Fable III

The Fable series from Lionhead Studios is the closest non-licensed game to Harry Potter’s hero-journey-through-a-magical-school arc. Fable Anniversary (a remaster of the original 2004 game) drops you into the Heroes’ Guild as a young orphan, and your magic, sword, and bow skills all grow as you decide whether to follow the light path or the dark path. Fable III adds political choices on top.

According to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass catalog, both Fable Anniversary and Fable III are included in Game Pass as of April 2026 and run on backward-compatible Xbox Series X/S hardware. A new Fable reboot from Playground Games has been in development since 2018; the Fable series page on the Xbox site lists the reboot as “coming soon” without a firm release window as of April 2026.

Fable won’t give you Hogwarts. But the age-up progression, spell-combat feel, and moral-choice storytelling hit the same pressure points better than almost anything else on PC or Xbox. If you liked the darker arc of the later Potter books, start with Fable Anniversary.

#Magicka 2: Spell-Chaining Chaos

Magicka 2 is a top-down action game where you chain eight elements (water, life, shield, cold, lightning, arcane, earth, fire) together to cast improvised spells. The game lets you combine up to five elements at once: Fire plus Water makes Steam, Earth plus Arcane makes a rock missile, and Lightning plus anything tends to end in a friendly-fire apology.

What makes Magicka 2 Harry Potter-adjacent is how much of the game is about learning the combo grammar, not pressing a fixed spell button. We tested 4-player local co-op on PC and finished the roughly 6-hour campaign in one evening. It’s one of the few wizard games that survives couch multiplayer without devolving into pure button-mashing. Magicka 2 on Steam reports Very Positive recent user reviews as of April 2026.

Go in expecting a comedy, not a serious wizarding epic. The fun is in turning your friends into sheep by accident.

#Wands and Waltz of the Wizard: VR Spellcasting

VR is where wand-casting finally feels right. Wands from NDreams is a PlayStation VR and Oculus title where you duel other wizards 1v1 in short arena matches, choosing eight spells from a pool of over 30 before each match. Waltz of the Wizard from Aldin Dynamics takes a different angle. It’s a sandbox where you learn spells by playing with potion bottles, animated skulls, and a tiny dragon in a wizard’s tower.

According to the Waltz of the Wizard Steam listing, the game holds an Overwhelmingly Positive user rating and supports Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, PSVR2, and Steam VR. We tested it on Quest 3, and the hand-tracking for potion-pouring and wand-flicking was accurate enough to feel magical rather than fiddly.

If you own any current VR headset and miss the point-your-wand-and-say-the-spell feeling, pick Waltz for the sandbox. Our VR games with controller list covers non-magic options, and our VR horror games roundup pulls in more immersive picks.

#Broomstick League: Quidditch Without the Name

Broomstick League is a 2019 arena sports game where you ride a broom, dribble a glowing ball with your wand, and try to score against the other team. It’s Quidditch in everything but the name. Virtual Basement just can’t use the word for legal reasons. The game went free-to-play in 2021 and still has an active player base, though matchmaking outside NA/EU primetime can take a few minutes.

In our testing on PC, broom controls have a learning curve similar to Rocket League. You’re constantly adjusting pitch, yaw, and boost to stay in bounds while tracking the ball. Matches are 3v3 and run about 5 minutes each. The game is on Steam and has been free since the 2021 relaunch.

If you play Rocket League and also wish your car were a broom, this is the game. Our games like Rocket League roundup covers other vehicle-sports options.

#How Do These Games Compare for Platform and Price?

Platform coverage shapes what you can actually play. Here’s a quick reference for the main picks as of April 2026.

Hogwarts Legacy is the most expensive and the most complete. Broomstick League and Fable via Game Pass are the cheapest entry points. For a deeper fantasy-RPG dive, our games like World of Warcraft list covers MMO options.

#Wizard’s Choice, Hogwarts Mystery, and Other Honorable Mentions

A few older games still show up in Harry Potter game searches and deserve a short mention.

Wizard’s Choice is a text-and-choice iOS and Android series from Delight Games. You pick your wizard class, read, and make decisions.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was Niantic’s Pokémon Go-style AR game that ran from 2019 to January 2022. According to the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Wikipedia article, Niantic shut the game down in January 2022 due to declining engagement. Servers are offline and the app no longer functions.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery from Jam City lets you create a student and play through all seven years at Hogwarts. Free-to-play with aggressive energy timers by year 3. The most lore-faithful Harry Potter mobile game on iOS and Android.

Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions launched September 2024 from Unbroken Studios. It focuses purely on Quidditch matches across PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC. We haven’t finished testing this one yet and will update the list after we’ve logged at least 10 matches in cross-platform multiplayer, which is the mode where the game stands out from the older EA Quidditch World Cup title from 2003.

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#Bottom Line

Buy Hogwarts Legacy. It’s the only full licensed Harry Potter open-world game, it runs on every current platform, and strong first-year sales suggest it delivers what fans wanted. If your budget is tight, start with Broomstick League (free) or Fable Anniversary via Game Pass. Skip Spellbreak and Wizards Unite — the servers are off and your money is gone.