Hogwarts Legacy
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 26.7h
- Value
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB, 85 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was December 2025. 30 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fable - The Lost Chapters ($9.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Immortals Fenyx Rising ($3.99, scores 34).
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 5,935 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 26.7 hours; clearing it takes 72, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
Still 5.7K concurrent players, 3 years in.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
92% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5,716 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The frame pacing in this game is nothing short of terrible. It looks really nice and i'm sure i'll enjoy most aspects of it but i can't give it a thumbs up when it stutters this hard on high end hardware.
as others have said the game is really fun when it works but somehow it's gotten worse since release and the game freezes for a few secs every time I enter a room and my fps drops below 20. They really need to patch this otherwise alot of people won't have faith in getting the second one
I am giving this game a thumbs up because it is genuinely fun to explore the beautiful world, fly around, and do the various side quests. If you love the Wizarding World, the exploration alone makes it worth playing. However, the writing of the main quest is incredibly weak, and it makes it very hard to actually like the main character. The peak example of this-and the moment that completely broke my immersion-is...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Hogwarts Legacy scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/990080/hogwarts-legacyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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