Hogwarts Legacy includes a wide range of accessibility features to ensure players of all abilities can enjoy their magical adventure. From customisable controls and visual enhancements to audio settings and gameplay assists, this guide breaks down every option available to help you tailor the experience to your needs.
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How to Enable Accessibility Features in Hogwarts Legacy
Open the Pause Menu.
Navigate to Settings and select the Accessibility tab.
Adjust controls, visuals, audio, and gameplay settings as needed.
Experiment with different configurations for the best experience!
These settings ensure that every player, regardless of ability, can fully enjoy their time at Hogwarts. Now let’s dive into what’s supported.
Visual Accessibility Features
Text-to-Speech
Menu narration is available in all supported languages.
Adjust the narration's volume and voice settings to match your preference.
Colorblind Modes
Hogwarts Legacy offers filters for players with colour vision differences. These adjustments improve UI and HUD visibility without affecting core gameplay elements.
Protanopia (Red-Green)
Deuteranopia (Red-Green)
Tritanopia (Yellow-Blue)
Text Scaling & High Contrast UI
Increase UI text size for better readability.
High Contrast Text improves legibility by adding a dark or light background to text.
High Contrast Gameplay Mode changes the world to grayscale while highlighting enemies, allies, and interactive objects in high-contrast colours.
Camera & Motion Settings
Adjustable Camera Shake lets you reduce intensity or disable it entirely.
Options to toggle motion blur, chromatic aberration, depth of field, and film grain to reduce visual strain.
Hogwarts Legacy supports Screen Magnifier tools on PlayStation and Xbox for zooming in on text and UI elements.
Audio Accessibility Features
Subtitles & Audio Cues
Subtitles are on by default and include speaker indicators for key characters.
Subtitle size is adjustable for better visibility.
The Audio Visualiser provides on-screen visual cues for important sound effects and in-game interactions.
Customisable Sound Settings
Hogwarts Legacy features independent volume controls for music, dialogue, and sound effects.
Spatial audio support is also provided for a more immersive experience with directional sound cues.
Motor & Input Accessibility Features
Control Customisation
You can remap controls on PC (with full keybinding support).
While console players can choose from alternative control schemes.
Toggle vs. Hold Options
Change aiming, spell casting, and sprinting from a hold command to a toggle for easier input.
Stick Swap & Sensitivity Adjustments
Swap the left and right analog sticks to match your play-style.
Adjust cursor, aiming, and camera sensitivity independently.
Flight & Motion Controls
Invert the X and Y axis for both ground and flight movement.
PlayStation 5 players can use the DualSense motion sensor for immersive broomstick flight.
Cognitive & Gameplay Assistance Features
Difficulty Settings
Story Mode removes time-sensitive puzzles and makes spell-learning easier.
Choose from Easy, Normal, or Hard difficulties based on your desired challenge level.
Objective Reminders & UI Customisation
Quests are divided into clear categories with objective tracking.
Waypoints and markers help guide you through the Wizarding World.
Tutorial Assistance
On-screen tutorials remain visible until manually dismissed, ensuring players can learn mechanics at their own pace.
Arachnophobia Mode
In a recent update, Hogwarts Legacy introduced an Arachnophobia Mode to accommodate players who are uncomfortable with spiders. When enabled, this setting transforms enemy spiders into something less creepy (and sort of blob-like), silences their unsettling sounds, removes smaller ground-effect spiders, and even makes spider corpses vanish! However, do note that the Field Guide still keeps its spider-related entries.
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That wraps up Hogwarts Legacy’s extensive accessibility options!
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