Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Niantic turned the wizarding world into a location game, then ended the Calamity and switched off every spell after two and a half years.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released augmented-reality mobile game developed by Niantic and WB Games San Francisco.
Players walked through real places to recover magical objects, battle creatures and cooperate in fortresses.
Existence timeline
Niantic and Warner Bros reveal a location-based wizarding game.
The public first encounters the game in a restricted regional test.
Wizards Unite reaches normal public availability.
The team schedules a final story and shutdown.
New downloads and purchases stop.
The location game becomes unplayable.
Why it ended
The publishers removed the game from stores in December 2021 and shut its servers on 31 January 2022.
Last confirmed trace
Support notices, player recordings, screenshots and archived community pages preserve the vanished map.
What it left behind
Wizards Unite remains the largest attempt to apply Pokémon Go's location design to the Harry Potter universe.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.