Hogwarts Legacy - Nintendo Switch 2
- Release Date: 5th June 2025
- Age Rating: PEGI 12
- Publisher: Warner Bros
- Genre: Adventure
- Format(s): Nintendo Switch 2
- Game Key Card - Download Required
- Description
- Features
- Switch 2 Features
- PEGI 12+
- Game-Key Cards
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. For the first time, experience Hogwarts in the 1800s.
Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Now you can take control of the action and be at the centre of your own adventure in the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it.
Live The Unwritten
Explore an Open World
The wizarding world awaits you. Freely roam Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest, and the surrounding Overland area.
Be the Witch or Wizard You Want to be
Learn spells, brew potions, grow plants, and tend to magical beasts along your journey. Get sorted into your house, forge relationships, and master skills to become the witch or wizard you want to be.
Experience a New Wizarding World Adventure
Experience the wizarding world in an unexplored era to uncover a hidden truth from its past. Battle against trolls, Dark Wizards, goblins, and more as you face a dangerous villain threatening the fate of the wizarding world.
NINTENDO SWITCH 2 HOGWARTS LEGACY FEATURES
- Improved Visuals – Experience deeper immersion with significantly upgraded graphics, including DLSS support, improved lighting, shadows, animation quality, anti-aliasing, just to name a few
- Smoother Traversal – Seamlessly traverse the open-world and cross into Hogsmeade and its shops without loading screens
- Increased Flight Speed – Soar over the Hogwarts grounds and beyond with smoother frame rates and faster load times thanks to performance upgrades on Nintendo Switch 2
- Improved Resolution – Experience improved resolution of up to 1440p and HDR in docked mode with a compatible TV and up to 1080p in handheld mode
- Joy-Con 2 Controllers as Mouse Support – Play how you want with the option to use the Joy-Con 2 Controllers as mouse functionality
PEGI 12+: Graphic and realistic looking violence is allowed towards fantasy characters and can feature horror content such as a strong threat or graphic injury. Violence to human characters must appear unrealistic unless it consists of minor trivial injury. Sexual posturing as the type seen in music videos is allowed as a sexual innuendo. Some bad language is allowed but no more than mild swearing. 12 is the minimum rating for games which teach or encourage gambling, although the descriptor can also feature on higher rated games.
Any game that would normally be rated at 3 but contains some possibly frightening scenes or sounds may be considered suitable in this category.
This game is rated by Games rating authority and PEGI
Game-key cards are different from regular game cards because they don’t contain the full game data. Instead, the game-key card is your 'key' to downloading the full game to your console via the internet.
After it’s downloaded, you can play the game by inserting the game-key card into your console and starting it up as normal.
To download the game, an internet connection is required.
How it works
Step 1: Insert the game-key card into the console.
Step 2: Download the game.
The game itself isn't included on the game-key card, so you’ll have to download it before you can play.
When you insert the game-key card, further instructions will be displayed on the HOME Menu. Please follow the instructions and download the game.
Please note: to download the game, you must have enough free space in your Nintendo Switch 2 system memory or microSD Express card. The amount of free space required is indicated on the game-key card packaging.
Step 3: Play the game.
Once the game is downloaded, you’re ready to play!
An internet connection is only required when you launch the game for the first time. After this, the game can be started even without an internet connection. However, like regular physical software, the game-key card must be inserted into the console in order to play the game.
If you insert a game-key card into another Nintendo Switch 2, the game can also be played on that console by following the above steps.
