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This is a huge DLC that adds a lot to the base game, actually worth being called an expansion. It's big, beautiful, dense with content and layered. There is one big downside and that's why you see a lot of negative reviews, now first of all I finished it, I wouldn't say it was unfair by any means, but there is one frustrating and annoying mechanic - power levels.

Let me explain, in the DLC there are these little fragments scattered across the entire map, found in all kinds of different locations. They are called scadu tree fragments. Gathering them allows you to increase your "Power Level". Which in turn increases your defenses and damage. This is why so many people say they that bosses/enemies are tanky or that they kill them in one hit. If you gather enough that's usually not the case. In fact I found the bosses of this DLC to be amazing.

Either way, it's unfortunate that this mechanic made it into the DLC, but nevertheless, the DLC it's still a great addition to the game, but what would have been a 10/10 is more like an 8/10 simply because of this. The same also applies to your spirit ashes, they are also upgraded in a similar way with another item you find scattered across the map.

Anyway, I still enjoyed a lot and think it's probably the best DLC that From Soft has made for a game, just kinda don't dig the whole power level thing.

Beautiful, lore rich world. Tons upon tons of content, some of the best gameplay I have ever experienced. Fantastic selection of weapons, spells, armors and so on. Just as skill-based as any previous From Soft game.

I sincerely recommend picking this up because it's an unforgettable gaming experience filled to brim with things to fight, find and conquer. And best of all, it has multiplayer, so you and your friends can choose to fight or cooperate with each other.

I have to warn you, it's a huge and often confusing game, with too much happening to keep track of, but that's how it's supposed to be, be prepared to be overwhelmed, be prepared to die a lot, things will take a while to learn and master. Another thing worth mentioning is that the game is stunning, while not having the best pure graphical fidelity, the artstyle is phenomenal and often will leave you breathless with it's varied and beautiful scenery.

Of the few games I think are actually worth the full price too, I recommend getting it with DLC because that too is really good and honestly you save quite a bit if you buy them bundled.

10/10 It's not perfect, but it's damn close.

Great gameplay, an immersive open world, mechanical depth and an awesome story. Puts other open world games to shame.

Really good game held back by greed. You're essentially paying 40 euros/dollars to have a free-to-play economy with constant warbonds (Battle passes) being dropped for 10 bucks each, but the kicker is that they include guns and armor among virtually every other gameplay changing thing in the game. I do have to mention that they don't expire, so you're free to progress them at your own pace and you could always choose to buy older ones.

Now we also have a FOMO shop which sells guns among other things which aren't in the warbonds you already paid for and are ridiculously priced. Each warbond costs 10 bucks and you have to essentially buy 4 to get 1 free from the credits you gain back from the bond itself. This would have been easier to swallow if there were enough credits in each to buy the next one. Anyway enjoy having your progression locked behind a paywall.

Also there is a way of earning credits in-game to buy them in the form of doing side objectives which drop between 10 to 100 super credits the latter being extremely rare. If you check some sites or do the math yourself that comes out to a measly 400 credits per 8ish hours of playtime IF you're strictly farming them. Which is insanely grindy, one way or another most people will end up paying extra to unlock guns, armors, beacons, granade types etc.,

Now the game itself is really fun and brutally difficult, it has a lot of positive going for it. One of the positives is that the devs are funneling out updates all the time. Do those updates add enough content to justify the in-game premium economy, I don't think so, but they're doing enough to keep it fresh.

My personal suggestion to fix this is to make old warbonds free when new ones come out, that would be fair while also still making the devs money. Or every two new warbonds one becomes free. The in-game shop needs to be completely removed or offer the same items you can find in warbonds. Another option is to significantly buff the supercredit drops in-game. From the regular 10 to 100 to shorten the tedious and quite unfun grind. Either way with the current economy, you're basically paying for what should be a free-to-play game. I will not be recommending this for the time being until they do something about it.

Good game, but held back by frustrating mechanics.

I'll list what I find to be incredibly unnecessary:
- 20 minute cooldown for boss powers
- Incredibly spongey bosses which take forever to kill, not to mention they kill you in 2/3 hits
- General slowing down of gameplay due to time to smelt/brew/grow things
- Extremely aggressive mobs which constantly interrupt you and never stop chasing you (seriously Iron Gate, tone it down)
- Too many hostile mob spawns, it seems like every 2 seconds while you're doing something a mob just has to spawn
- Overall clunky combat and for some reason you have to press two buttons to dodge
- Boats are clunky
- Performance could be more consistent although it's by no means bad

The good:
- Base building is really engaging and fun with plenty of panels/materials to choose from
- Biomes are diverse and interesting, always unlocking new recipes for crafting or building
- Having bosses for each biome gives the game overall structure and purpose beyond just surviving, you make actual progress
- Plenty of armors, weapons, tools and interesting things to craft including brewing potions
- Portals are an amazing addition once you're able to craft them
- Farming and fishing although crops take waaay too long to grow

Overall I recommend the game, but it would seriously benefit if they tweaked some stuff and made some things take way less time than they do

Car Pass does not include all cars for whatever reason.

Bought this game, played for 30 minutes (with friends, of course) and I sincerely fail to see all the hype generated. The gameplay consists of going through dark corridors, collecting scrap and going back to the ship, you got some tools you can purchase and a monster chasing you.

Maybe it's just me, but I found the experience bare-bones and lacking in gameplay, it's really not as fun as the reviews make it out to be. It maybe just isn't my cup of tea, but there are much better games to play with friends out there in my opinion.

Game of the year 2023

This is how you make a game and treat consumers right. Bless Bay 12 and Kitfox Games, sincerely hope you guys get filthy rich.

EDIT: (as of August 23rd 2023)

*Under Construction*

Original Review

EDIT: I was a bit heated at the time and have deleted a paragraph, the review should still make sense, I think everything I left is still relevant (making this edit on 4/17/2023 with a lot more hours in the game). Review should also be more Steam friendly and with less assumptions.

Multiple Other Edits: Fixing some formatting and spelling. I'm actually still fixing stuff and I'm gonna stop with all the unnecessary "Edit"s. Will try to make a major update again, soon™.



1. Denuvo Anti-Temper is in the game without any confirmation that it will be removed despite it already being cracked.

2. Currently as of this review, Nvidia has NOT released a proper Game Ready Driver for Hogwarts Legacy. (Still Relevant as of 4/17/2023)

3. Most recent patch notes on Steam (February 25th, 2023) are for the Day One Patch (10 Feb, 2023).
sidenote The last update posted (March 8th 2023) right now should be relevant.

4. Optimization is HORRID. Performance is all over the place, the game can be virtually unplayable for some despite their hardware being top of the line and great for people with much worse hardware. Tons of bugs, confusing menus, control issues, controller issues, PC binding issues, in-game bugs etc.,

5.(April 18th 2023) Less horrible and confusing marketing/communication/support for all versions especially PC. With multiple accounts and account links being required to redeem things. There are a lot of exclusive items/quests that are/or are going to be unavailable soon as of February 26th. (Including PS exclusive quest, twitch cosmetic drops, pre-order bonuses etc.,)

8. Graphics/Art Style/Atmosphere/Music/Sound is absolutely top notch. Truly amazing.

7. Gameplay is very hard to describe, some might love it, some might hate it. It’s a mishmash of mechanics from many genres with a Harry Potter theme slapped onto it. I personally think it’s great as for me it ticks all the boxes.



I received this as a gift from a friend and meanwhile I like the game itself, let me walk you through the current state of what’s going on. From a somewhat objective point of view so you can make an informed decision about this product before buying it.

The game has severe performance problems, anyone who says it runs fine on their PC without implementing additional workarounds is incredibly lucky. There is no universal workaround because of how it hugely varies depending on your system, programs, overclock settings, bios settings, windows version, update version for windows etc., There are people with 4090s getting 50fps, people with 1080Ti's getting 60+ constant, people with RTX3070Ti cards getting 30 on low, while others with those same cards have the roles completely reversed. Some can’t even launch the game. RTX suite features are mostly absolutely botched on PC (This includes DLSS, Ray Tracing, Scaling, DLAA etc.,). In summary it’s an incredibly poor PC release port.

Warner/Avalanche/Wizarding World/Portkey Games have delved into some very intentionally misleading practices or they are absolutely incompetent. There are a million different people managing this game on social media and the various platforms and currently the state of the game is absolutely a little less horrible on PC despite the “Very Positive” rating on Steam.

The community is completely split by hardcore Harry Potter fans who defend it with every tooth and nail and say that it’s a 10/10 game of the year; People who are trying to boycott it because of some political issues with JK Rowling on Twitter over things she said a long while ago; Others who don’t understand how PC’s work are saying that “You should just upgrade your PC if it runs badly”; Meanwhile some are calling everything a “conspiracy theory” and disregarding factual evidence you can easily find online and so on.

I would personally recommend NOT buying this until it’s 20 bucks with all content put in the game and fixed on PC, if it ever gets fixed. Also if you’re thinking of trying it out to see if it runs well; Do know that the majority of PC problems happen after the several hour long intro and tutorial and even if that runs well who’s to say that when you get to places like Hogsmead it wouldn’t suddenly choke itself. Point is that you may not be able to refund it on Steam because the refund policy is 2 hours or less playtime/Game purchased less than 2 weeks ago.