Key Takeaways
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is shutting down in most regions on October 29.
- The game will remain playable in China and Taiwan.
- Fans are signing a petition to try saving the game.
October 29 is the day that Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, one of the Harry Potter mobile games, is shutting down. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is one of the latest Harry Potter video games to hit the market, but it’s certainly not the first. All kinds of Harry Potter video games have been released over the past 20 years, with the ones released since 2018 launched under WB’s Portkey Games label.
Portkey Games is the label that has overseen the Harry Potter video games since 2018, starting with the release of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Hogwarts Mystery was followed by 2019’s Wizards Unite, 2020’s Puzzles & Spells, 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy, and most recently, 2024’s Quidditch Champions. In 2021, Portkey Games launched Harry Potter: Magic Awakened in China and Taiwan, giving franchise fans the chance to try out a collectible card game/RPG hybrid. Set 10 years after the end of the books, Magic Awakened proved popular enough to bring it to other regions, with the game finally getting its worldwide release in 2023.
Unfortunately, a little over a year after Harry Potter: Magic Awakened‘s global launch, the game is shutting down everywhere except China and Taiwan. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is shutting down on October 29, and so anyone interested in playing the game should be sure to check it out while they still can. A reason why Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is being shut down has not been revealed. It’s possible the game simply doesn’t generate enough money outside of China and Taiwan to justify its continued support.
When is Harry Potter: Magic Awakened Shutting Down?
Something else that could play a role is the fact that Harry Potter: Magic Awakened has a different publisher in China and Taiwan. In China and Taiwan, Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is published by NetEase. Everywhere else, Warner Bros. Games is the publisher. Whatever reason Warner Bros. would have for shutting down the game is still unclear, but regardless, Harry Potter fans outside of China and Taiwan have been warned that October 29 is the last day that they will get to play the game.
Some fans of the game haven’t given up hope. A Harry Potter: Magic Awakened petition has been made on Change.org asking Warner Bros. Games to let NetEase pick up the publishing rights in regions outside of China and Taiwan, with the hope that such a move will keep the game live and operational. The petition generated over 5,000 signatures, but no plans to save the game have been announced.
This isn’t the first time that a mobile Harry Potter game has been shut down, and it’s unlikely to be the last. Previously, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was shut down, despite the fact that it was made by the extremely successful developer of Pokemon GO, Niantic. No plans to terminate the other Harry Potter mobile games have been announced at the time of this writing, but shutdowns are always a risk when it comes to mobile gaming.