<Tr> <Th> Mode (s) </Th> <Td> Single - player </Td> </Tr> <P> Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a role - playing video game based on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series . The game was developed and published by Jam City, under license from Portkey Games, and released on 25 April 2018 for Android and iOS devices . The game is set in Hogwarts before the events of the novels, featuring a customisable protagonist . The game received mixed reviews; it was praised for its use of the Harry Potter licence but criticised for its energy mechanic . </P> <P> Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a role - playing video game set in the Harry Potter universe, established by J.K. Rowling's series of novels . The game is set between Harry's birth and his enrolment to Hogwarts . Players can create and customise their own personal avatar who is a student attending Hogwarts, a British school for magic . They can attend magic classes, learn spells, battle rivals and embark on quests . Through the game's encounter system, players are able to make choices that have an impact on the game's narrative (and sometimes these choices are locked if the player's statistics are not high enough). Players can interact with notable characters from the series such as Rubeus Hagrid, Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall . </P> <P> The game features a system with tasks costing energy to perform . Players tap on screen to move the character between places, and level up revealing new outfits, and other unlockables . The player also gains different levels of courage, empathy and knowledge by choices in game, with higher levels of a particular attribute allowing the player to choose some different dialogue options in game and change the interactions of other students and staff . </P>

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