Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game is finally here and it's pretty magical

Potter fans get ready, the first Harry Potter mobile game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is finally here.

This is the first ever first-person Harry Potter game for mobile and straight up, it’s pretty magical.

How it works is you get to be a student at Hogwarts. You begin in the first year, choose your character’s name, what they look like, as well as the house they want to be in and you get to experience the full seven years of Hogwarts.

Each year of school is divided into 10 chapters, which include classes and lessons where you will learn spells like Lumos and Wingardium Leviosa, as well as make friends (and enemies) with your fellow wizarding students.

Every action you take as your character has consequences and implications in the game, meaning you can have a real impact on the story.

But, the underlying story throughout the game is that your brother went missing a few years earlier and you will use the knowledge you learn at Hogwarts to find out what happened.

It’s an exciting moment for Harry Potter fans, particularly for those who remember the original PlayStation One games.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery could not be further from those early iterations. The design is slick, the storylines are J.K Rowling-inspired, and the music is either re-recordings of music from the film series or original recordings for the new game.

All of this adds up to a great mobile game for new and old Harry Potter fans.

LA-based studio JamCity has created the new Harry Potter game in partnership with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and says it has been a long time in production.

“It took two years to develop the game,” explains Sangita Agrawal, director of product marketing for JamCity. “We wanted to make sure every detail we have is true and authentic to the wizarding world.”

Fans will be delighted by the attention to detail, such as their own Hogwarts acceptance letter, and the familiar faces throughout the game.

“Some of the original cast have done voice recordings, such as Dame Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall, Michael Gambon as Headmaster Dumbeldore, and Warwick Davis as Professor Flitwick. They are reprising their roles for their in-game characters to lend their voices to audio emotions and one-liners,” says Agrawal.

But, Harry Potter himself will not feature in the new mobile game. Instead, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is set in the 1980s, seven years before the Boy Who Lived makes it to the school.

“We wanted to create an experience for the fans that was going to let them have their own adventure,” adds Agrawal.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is available to download for free from the App Store and Google Play Store now.