Collaborating with Niantic, the company behind the Pokémon GO phenomenon, WB Games revealed gameplay details of its upcoming mobile AR game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in a press release today.

Featuring content and characters from both the original Harry Potter and the Fantastic Beasts series, the game will have you explore the real world following a calamity to collect ingredients that can be used to brew helpful Potions, discover Traces of magic and Foundables that only appear in real-world locations like parks, municipal buildings, libraries and monuments. Akin to the gym battles in Pokémon GO are the Wizarding Challenges which take place in Fortresses and involve real-time multiplayer battles pitting you against foes like Death Eaters and soul-sucking Dementors. You can even team up with friends to tackle those foes and collect rarer magical Foundables from within the Fortress walls.

Below is an excerpt from the press release:

In Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the player’s journey begins as a new recruit for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force, with the purpose of investigating and containing a Calamity that has befallen the wizarding world. Witches and wizards from across the globe must come together to cast spells and return Foundables – artefacts, creatures, people, and even memories – trapped by Confoundable magic, to their proper place in an effort to keep magic hidden from Muggle eyes.

As players journey across the world, they’ll discover Inns that replenish their Spell Energy, magical ingredients for brewing special potions, Portkeys that unlock AR portals into iconic wizarding world locations and much more.

Combat skills will be tested when witches and wizards visit real-world locations called Fortresses, key areas that play host to Wizarding Challenges. These real-time multiplayer battles against dangerous foes encourage players to join forces with fellow witches and wizards to take on higher level threats and unlock rare magical rewards.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is coming to iOS and Android devices sometime in 2019. You can pre-register for the game on Google Play.

SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Official Website

 

[Vorde]

hopefully they'll reveal that RPG soon

I always thought that Harry Potter would make a great Final Fantasy-esque JRPG, since the characters have backstory and the wizarding world itself gives loads of ideas for spells and spellcrafting etc

 

[eyeliner]

Will I see a vast amount of people gathering in places, completely alienated from the person right next to them, looking at a screen?

Will there be magic in the air? Love, or something? Will a real Ron find his Hermione and produce babies in AR?

Important questions, y'all...

 

[the_randomizer]

Well goodluck enjoying the game without features then.

Lol people buying games where microtransactions are required.

 

[Justinde75]

*snore*

 

[medoli900]

Seeing as Niantic is behind it, I'm curious of the final result. I enjoy Pokemon GO and Ingress (played Ingress since its beginnings), and enjoyed Field Trips when it was relevant.

 

[Ericzander]

God, Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery is such a painfully obvious cash grab. I love the Harry Potter series (books, movies, and HP World at Universal), but they haven't had a decent video game since the Prisoner of Azkaban back in 2004.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Yeah.... No.

 

[BORTZ]

If I dont get pressured into paying for a micro-transaction to save Ron from getting strangled by a tree then is it even a real game?

 

[guisadop]

I always thought that Harry Potter would make a great Final Fantasy-esque JRPG, since the characters have backstory and the wizarding world itself gives loads of ideas for spells and spellcrafting etc

Yeah, the world is more interesting than the characters were in the last 3-4 books IMO.

 

[the_randomizer]

Yeah, the world is more interesting than the characters were in the last 3-4 books IMO.

Gotta confession here, I never did read the books, but I would think the games would be more like FF as well.

 

[Vorde]

Yeah, the world is more interesting than the characters were in the last 3-4 books IMO.

I stopped after I finished Goblet of Fire. Couldn't be bothered, and I felt like the series had peaked early with book 3 (it seems to be favourable that the 3rd book was the best one in the series anyways).
Watched all the movies, good acting and stellar visual effects carried it imo

 

[DarthDub]

Some features advertised won't be implemented until 3-4 years later..

 

[Noctosphere]

Any news on this? Any development?
My sistra loves pokemon go and harry potter fan #1