While we await the release of Fantastic Beasts, a new hidden objects mobile game inspired by J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World is nearly here too. Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World is out on 17 November, but what’s it all about?

The game blends together many magical themes from the wizarding world, including objects and locations you may be rather familiar with. Your job is to unearth some mysteries surrounding some lost magical creatures.

Cases from the Wizarding World was developed by Mediatonic, in partnership with WB Games San Francisco. Mary Casey, director of product at WB Games, told us how everything came together.

‘So the idea behind it was that we wanted to create a game different from any other experience,’ Mary said. ‘We wanted to place you, as a player, into the wizarding world, and create something you could really reach out and touch.’

Similar to titles such as Criminal Case and Mystery Manor, Cases from the Wizarding World takes a popular format and gives it a wizarding world twist, inviting you to work for the Ministry of Magic – specifically the Department of the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures – to solve mysteries, and discover an assortment of fantastic beasts.