UPDATED: “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery” Is Expanding to Life Beyond Hogwarts

by · May 16, 2023

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is launching its biggest expansion yet. For the first time, players will be able to follow their characters’ lives beyond the walls of Hogwarts and into the grown-up wizarding world.

 

Jam City announces biggest expansion of "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery."

 

Jam City announced a “thrilling new chapter that offers an even richer, more immersive Harry Potter experience” and all-new content. The expansion will include more than 25 new chapters in Volume 1, 20 characters aged to adulthood, 15 new environments to explore, 14 repeatable projects, and new social encounters.

Adulthood in Hogwarts Mystery comes with a few perks too. Players will be able to pick a neighborhood to live in and decorate their very own flat however they please. But a brand-new flat isn’t even the best thing this expansion has to offer. Since graduation is now in the past, it’s time to start looking for a job. That sounded a little too familiar to real life until we learned that characters are recruited by Mad-Eye Moody for a top-secret position that will be full of mysteries to explore. To customize how characters will continue their careers, players will have access to specialization features “to shape how they play and which path they’d like to pursue.”

 

 

The graduating characters will be the Hogwarts class of 1991, who will help prepare acceptance letters for the next batch of first years. Players should keep their eyes peeled for any Easter eggs since “they may even see a few familiar names.”

So study up for those NEWTs and you’ll be ready to start a new Hogwarts Mystery life after Year 7. The expansion update will launch this July. Until then, players who log in every day through July 27 can collect graduation-themed rewards, and some of the content in this expansion will even be available before players graduate.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is free to play from your mobile app store.

UPDATE:

The Beyond Hogwarts expansion is available to play in the game now. It includes familiar pieces of the Harry Potter story, such as Professor Quirrell’s return to Hogwarts – now as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher – following his sabbatical, and even a glimpse of Harry Potter in Diagon Alley.

The top-secret Ministry of Magic department that players have been recruited for is called the Rare, Obscure and Confounding Case (ROCC) Division. From there, players can choose between three career paths: Auror, Healer, or Magizoologist.

Plus, a new map feature opens up the broader wizarding world, and it will soon include even more locations, such as international wizarding schools and international ministries.

You can check out the launch trailer below.

 

 

Press Release

JAM CITY’S HARRY POTTER: HOGWARTS MYSTERY LAUNCHES LARGEST EXPANSION TO DATE IN MAGICAL NEW ADVENTURE, BEYOND HOGWARTS

Groundbreaking mobile game with over 82M downloads takes players on a journey into the canon timeline of the “Harry Potter” books and films series

Los Angeles, CA – July 27, 2023 – One of the mobile game industry’s biggest and most popular titles with over 50B minutes played to date worldwide and a 2022 Webby Award Honoree, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, today unveils its largest-ever game expansion in the five- year history of the groundbreaking narrative mobile RPG. “Beyond Hogwarts” introduces players to a vast new world of adventure, magic and wizardry and tells a unique, personal and interactive story in the canon timeline.

Officially licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and published under the Portkey Games label, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery’s Beyond Hogwarts delivers a richer addition to the timeline that started in the book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.” Beyond Hogwarts begins on 31 July 1991 in Diagon Alley where players will catch a glimpse of Harry Potter, in his first appearance in the game, on his way to Ollivanders. Players embark on a fun, and sometimes dangerous, new adventure encountering both new places and faces as well as some very familiar ones. Players will visit iconic moments from a new perspective, while they build meaningful relationships, adopt wizarding careers and establish a new adult life. To access Beyond Hogwarts, players will need to complete Year 7 of the game.

“With Beyond Hogwarts, the Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery team is trailblazing the limits of mobile game experiences in this AAA game expansion that adds new adventures, and unlocks new timelines and perspectives from within the Wizarding World,” said Bryan Shaw, General Manager at Jam City. “ Beyond Hogwarts delivers on the core fantasy of stories fans have been enjoying for decades, and will enthrall both fans who have enjoyed visiting the Wizarding World through Harry Potter books and movies and our current players who have crafted their own immersive stories in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.”

As players’ stories progress beyond its halls, Beyond Hogwarts delivers:

  • More to Explore: 15+ new environments and 25+ new chapters in Volume 1
  • Age Up for the First Time! A new character look for players and 20+ of their friends as they AGE UP for the first time
  • New Specializations Feature: Gamers can shape how they play in three new career paths to choose from at the Rare Obscure Confounding Case Division (ROCC): Auror, Healer or Magizoologist. Reach new milestones in each track to earn XP and unlock new Assignments, Side Quests and Repeatable Project Stations
  • New and Returning Familiar Faces: Follow Professor Quirrell's return to Hogwarts after his sabbatical in Albania, encounter Mad-Eye Moody and Elton Elderberry at the Ministry of Magic, reconnect with aged-up classmates Tonks, Bill and Charlie, and witness moments in Harry Potter's journey from a new perspective
  • New Mysteries to Solve: Join the newly created top-secret division of the Ministry of Magic - the Rare, Obscure, and Confounding Case Division (ROCC) and work on mysterious cases
  • Post-Hogwarts Graduate Life: New ways to experience classic in-game features as an adult, like choosing and decorating your own Flat (instead of your dorm room), and meeting up with friends in special new former student hubs
  • 3D Experience of New and Returning Iconic Locations: Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, Godric's Hollow, the Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts and more, all accessible via the new in- game world map
  • More on the way! Arriving soon as the story in Volume 1 progresses, visit wizarding towns, international wizarding schools, and international ministries

Originally launched in 2018, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery features a strong narrative combined with an engaging RPG gameplay experience. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery gives fans the opportunity to live their fantasy of attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is the first game to deliver Hogwarts letters to students. Players participate in the iconic rites of passage of life at the school, from being sorted in Year 1, to becoming a prefect in Year 5, while exploring the secrets of Hogwarts and its grounds. True to life in the Wizarding World, players advance through their seven years of schooling at Hogwarts, attending classes, learning magical skills, and forming friendships and rivalries with other students, while investigating an original, unfolding mystery.

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