Officially GoneGAMES

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.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2019—2022
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Quick facts

Existence state
Officially Gone
Peak stage
general availability
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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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.

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Existence timeline

Game announced

Niantic and Warner Bros reveal a location-based wizarding game.

New Zealand beta

The public first encounters the game in a restricted regional test.

Worldwide release

Wizards Unite reaches normal public availability.

Closure announced

The team schedules a final story and shutdown.

Store distribution ends

New downloads and purchases stop.

Servers close

The location game becomes unplayable.

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Why it ended

The publishers removed the game from stores in December 2021 and shut its servers on 31 January 2022.

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Last confirmed trace

Support notices, player recordings, screenshots and archived community pages preserve the vanished map.
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What it left behind

Wizards Unite remains the largest attempt to apply Pokémon Go's location design to the Harry Potter universe.

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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.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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