Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery vs High School Story
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a story-driven, “choose your own adventure”-like, adventure-RPG where you get to attend the renowned School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Featuring a whole new storyline but with many familiar characters, you'll get to learn how to cast spells and brew potions, make new friends (and rivals) along the way, and get drawn to the many mysteries that the ancient school hides within its depths. The game even backs up your own adventures with an intriguing story about your missing brother who apparently was expelled as he had broken school rules when he was searching for the fabled Cursed Vaults.The gameplay is pretty casual and straightforward for the most part - as long as you have enough energy points, you can complete actions, tasks, and subsequently quests. However, it's unfortunate that the game doesn't use a more reflex-based gameplay during intense scenes that obviously call for more rapid actions. This is the only thing that truly breaks the immersion of the game.
Nevertheless, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is still a very well-made game and it is worth playing for the visuals, the experience of being an "actual" Hogwarts student, and the mystery-infused storyline. The game is free to play and is available on both Android and iOS.
High School Story
High School Story is a fun and pretty unique simulation game where you'll not only get to meet a host of interesting high schoolers, from the nerds to the jocks to the preppies; you'll also get to build a high school of your own! Recruit classmates, customize them to your liking, build hangouts for them and even link these characters with your real life friends through Facebook. Enjoy the game's myriad of mini-storylines that mostly cover the struggles that high schoolers go through, though there are some general life lessons in there as well. You can even throw parties to attract new "hybrid-clique" students or date any of the other students at your high school.High School Story lives up to its name by offering players the opportunity to reveal new stories by completing quests or buying new special classmates - or All-stars - that comes with their respectively unique background stories. The game is honestly as compelling as its stories and if you love a good tale or two or if you're a fan of games like Suburbia, this is the game you'll want to play.