Hogwarts Legacy free on PC for a limited time

Hogwarts Legacy, the 2023 open-world action-RPG set in the world of Harry Potter, is free to download on PC for a limited time. Harry Potter fans can download Hogwarts Legacy via the Epic Games Store, where it is free to keep forever.

The free Hogwarts Legacy offer runs until Sunday, May 3 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, according to the game's listing on the Epic Games Store, where it is marked as 100% off. Hogwarts Legacy was previously given away for free back in December, as part of a promotion tied to The Game Awards 2025. But Harry Potter fans (or anyone looking for a fantasy action-RPG) have a second chance to grab the Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Games title free of charge.

Hogwarts Legacy isn't the only game currently free on the Epic Games Store: This week's Epic Games free games also include Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, a cute game that pairs automaton gameplay with real-time strategy elements. Epic Games is also giving away free content for free-to-play idle RPG Firestone.

Warner Bros. released Hogwarts Legacy in 2023 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. The game was later ported to Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. While Hogwarts Legacy isn't free to keep on consoles, it is currently on deep discount on PlayStation and Xbox, up to 85% off.

The free download of Hogwarts Legacy includes the base game, which got a major content update in 2024.

Is Hogwarts Legacy worth playing in 2026?

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If you want to immerse yourself in Harry Potter lore — without actually seeing any characters from the original books — Hogwarts Legacy is worth playing, especially at the price of "free." If controversial Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's prejudiced views and transphobic activism might dissuade you from consuming the intellectual property, you can at least take comfort in knowing that the franchise's creator wasn't directly involved in the making of Hogwarts Legacy. (She will, however, potentially financially benefit from it, even if downloading the game for free through Epic.)

We certainly had our criticisms of the game in our Hogwarts Legacy review, knocking the game for its incongruousness with the Harry Potter book series and for its rote gameplay.

"Most of Hogwarts Legacy feels like a third-person shooter, one in which you barely have to aim," critic Gita Jackson wrote in 2023. "While you can and will learn other spells as you progress through the school year — a few of them are necessary for the main story missions — none of them are all that necessary for combat. You can make it through most of the game by using your basic cast, parrying enemy attacks, and following up with the resulting stun spell.

"Enemy variety is also dire. You will be fighting the same goblins, wizards, and trolls until the very end of the story. Often, the game ups the difficulty by simply piling on more enemies."

Other reviewers were more favorable. Hogwarts Legacy has a "generally favorable" Metacritic average score of 84 and an 88 top critic average on OpenCritic.

What Hogwarts Legacy being free means for Hogwarts Legacy 2

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Warner Bros. has all but confirmed Hogwarts Legacy 2 at this point. Back in 2024, a WB exec said "a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of the biggest priorities" for the company. After all, Hogwarts Legacy was the bestselling game in the U.S. in 2023, and outsold that year’s Call of Duty game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. As of late 2025, Hogwarts Legacy had sold more than 40 million units and brought in more than $1 billion in revenue.

Game publishers and developers frequently make their games free when they're about to announce or release a sequel. While Warner Bros. hasn't started hyping up Hogwarts Legacy 2, we're just a month away from Summer Game Fest 2026, which is typically packed with major new game reveals. Whether Hogwarts Legacy 2 will be revealed this summer remains to be seen, but it's a possibility — especially with a new Harry Potter TV show on the horizon.

Warner Bros. Games CEO JB Perrette said earlier this year that the company will "return to some of our biggest franchises" in 2027 and 2028. That description would certainly fit the next AAA Harry Potter game.

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