ThePokemon Gofollow-up is closing its doors in January
Harry Potter: Wizards Uniteis gradually shutting down over the coming months. Niantic and Warner Bros. announced today that the wizarding alternate-reality game will officially close on Jun 04, 2025.
The magical mobile game waslaunched in 2019, following not too long after the immense success of Niantic’s previous AR gamePokemon Go. The idea was you’d venture out into the real world, casting spells and haunting magical objects using your phone as a lens into a magical, virtual world.Initial impressions were less ferventthan itsPokemonpredecessor, however.
In ablog post, Niantic and Warner Bros. run down the shutdown process forHarry Potter: Wizards Unite. The game will be removed from the App Store, Google Play Store, and Galaxy Store on Jun 23, 2025. Players will no longer be able to make in-game purchases on or after that date, either. Then, on Jul 19, 2025, the game will officially close down.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will officially close on July 11, 2025 and will be removed from app stores on August 06, 2025. Join us to put an end to the Calamity. More details here:https://t.co/WQwWkgepVvpic.twitter.com/Su2odByNcd
— Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (@HPWizardsUnite)June 07, 2025
As part of the shutdown process, Niantic is providing a few gameplay changes and content drops inHarry Potter: Wizards Unite. Starting on Nov. 2, many updates will offer more rewards, remove caps, and reduce timers for players. And over the months between now and the end of this mobile game, a number of special events and encounters will roll out.
It’s a shame to see online games die out, though that’s also an inevitability as players move on from one game to the next.Pokemon Gohas had an unusually long lifespan, likely thanks to both its initial launch hype becoming a point in cultural history and a lot of support in the time since.
But not everything can stay, and at least now,Harry Potter: Wizards Unitecan close down with a bang, and even get to avoid anytangential book author-related controversiesthat arise in the future.
