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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

#199042BGG ↗

2016 · 2-4 players · 60min · weight 2.09 · 21,936 ratings

v2 v3

BGG raw

ID
199042
Name
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
Year
2016
Rank
274
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
60
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.0872
Num weights
470
Bayes avg
7.0514
Average
7.3371
Users rated
21936
Num owned
45426
Wanting
268
Wishing
3865
Num comments
3671
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Cooperative GameDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingScenario / Mission / Campaign GameVariable Player Powers
Categories (4)
Card GameFantasyMovies / TV / Radio themeNovel-based
Description (868 chars)

The forces of evil are threatening to overrun Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, a cooperative deck-building game, and it's up to four students to ensure the safety of the school by defeating villains and consolidating their defenses. In the game, players take on the role of a Hogwarts student: Harry, Ron, Hermione or Neville, each with their own personal deck of cards that's used to acquire resources. By gaining influence, players add more cards to their deck in the form of iconic characters, spells, and magical items. Other cards allow them to regain health or fight against villains, keeping them from gaining power. The villains set back players with their attacks and Dark Arts. Only by working together will players be able to defeat all of the villains, securing the castle from the forces of evil. —description from the publisher

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
play card, buy upgrade
Decision shape
combinatorial
Reward schedule
engine_compounding
Aesthetics
["Fellowship", "Narrative", "Fantasy"]
Core loop pitch
Play your hand for influence and damage; buy stronger spells/allies into your deck across escalating campaign chapters.
Translation difficulty
Easy
Difficulty reason
Cooperative deck-building automates cleanly to touch; the only friction is Warner Bros licensing for a digital port.
Direct digital port
Port kind
Closest loop translation
Slay the Spire
Primitive tags
["cooperative_deck_building", "campaign_unlock_box", "shared_villain_track", "dark_arts_event_per_turn", "scaling_difficulty_chapters"]
Confidence
0.7
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (918 chars)
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  "name": "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle",
  "core_verb": "play card, buy upgrade",
  "decision_shape": "combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "engine_compounding",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Fellowship",
    "Narrative",
    "Fantasy"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Play your hand for influence and damage; buy stronger spells/allies into your deck across escalating campaign chapters.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Cooperative deck-building automates cleanly to touch; the only friction is Warner Bros licensing for a digital port.",
  "direct_digital_port": null,
  "direct_digital_port_kind": null,
  "closest_loop_translation": "Slay the Spire",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "cooperative_deck_building",
    "campaign_unlock_box",
    "shared_villain_track",
    "dark_arts_event_per_turn",
    "scaling_difficulty_chapters"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.7
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).