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Big Walk Walkthrough & Guide
Big Walk is the cooperative walker-talker from House House, the studio behind Untitled Goose Game. Grab 1 to 11 friends and set out across a handcrafted island where the only way forward is talking to each other. This guide walks you through every trail, puzzle and secret.
Day 1 of the big walk
What Is Big Walk?
Big Walk is a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking. You and a group of friends — anywhere from 2 to 12 players — trek across a vast, handcrafted island full of puzzles, challenges and discoveries. There is no combat, no health bar, no quest marker, no mini-map. What you get instead is an open world designed around one simple idea: you must stay in contact with your friends, using your voice, your wits, and a pocketful of toys.
The hook is the game's proximity-based voice chat. When you wander far from your group — and you will wander — their voices fade out. When you step behind a wall of soundproof glass, they disappear entirely. Suddenly the game becomes a giant game of charades: describing symbols, yelling directions across valleys, and inventing your own signals with walkie-talkies, laser pointers and flares. Talking in-game isn't a side feature; it is the game.
Big Walk comes from Melbourne studio House House (Push Me Pull You, Untitled Goose Game) and is published by Panic. It launched on August 4, 2026 for PC and Mac on Steam, the Mac App Store, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, with full crossplay between every platform. Critics greeted it with a 94 Metacritic score, and it's already being called one of the best co-op games in years.
Big Walk is a co-op walking-and-talking adventure for 2–12 players. You solve environmental puzzles, explore a beautiful handcrafted island, and communicate through in-game proximity chat. It has a beginning, a middle, and an ending — roughly 20+ hours for a full playthrough with a regular group.
Start Exploring: Your Trail Map
Every trailhead you need for your big walk. Pick where to begin — new explorers should start with the beginner guide, while veterans can jump straight into the walkthrough or tips.
Beginner's Guide
Set up your first session, learn the controls and survive your first 30 minutes.
Tips & Tricks
20+ must-know tips for communicating, exploring and solving puzzles with friends.
Walkthrough
Step-by-step progress through the early trails, from the tutorial to the first big areas.
Puzzle Solutions
Every puzzle type we've documented, with how they work and how to approach them.
Achievements
All 12 Steam achievements with unlock rates, including the hidden ones.
Collectibles
Glowing orbs, paper maps, radios and the secret shortcuts hidden around the island.
What Makes Big Walk Special?
Big Walk strips the medium back to its essentials — discover, experiment, prevail — and rebuilds it around communication. Here's what sets it apart:
- 🗣️ Proximity voice & text chat
The world literally gets quieter as your friends drift away. Chat is the core mechanic, not an add-on.
- 🏝️ A handcrafted island
Every switchback, radio station and hidden cave is placed by hand — nothing is generated.
- 🧭 No HUD, no quest markers
No arrows, no stamina bars, no prompts. Every bit of UI is diegetic — the world speaks for itself.
- 🎒 Tools & toys
Walkie-talkies, laser pointers, binoculars, megaphones, flares, flashlights and backpacks.
- 👥 2–12 players with crossplay
PC, Mac, PS5 and Switch 2 all play together. The world scales to your group size.
- ♿ Accessibility first
Skip any challenge, rebind everything, motion-reduction overlays and no timed inputs required.
Watch Big Walk Gameplay
Stumpt — a verified co-op gaming channel — spent over an hour in Big Walk's early game shortly before launch. It's the best look at how proximity chat, tools and the first puzzles actually play with a group of friends:
Stumpt plays Big Walk in this 1-hour-10-minute video, showcasing the tutorial area, tools like walkie-talkies and laser pointers, and the first puzzles. Source: Stumpt (YouTube, verified channel).
Take a Look Around
Official screenshots from the Steam store page. The world of Big Walk is a mix of Australian outback tones, pastel seas and hand-placed landmarks:
Big Walk FAQ
Everything new players ask before their first walk — answered from the official FAQ and verified sources. Big Walk is a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking. Groups of 2–12 players explore a vast handcrafted island, solve environmental puzzles and stay in contact using in-game proximity voice and text chat. It's from House House, the studio behind Untitled Goose Game, published by Panic. Big Walk launched on August 4, 2026 for Windows and Mac (Steam and Mac App Store), PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2. Big Walk is developed by House House, a videogame company from Melbourne, Australia, known for Push Me Pull You and Untitled Goose Game. It's published by Panic. Environment art is by Kalonica Quigley, sound design by Em Halberstadt, and music by AKSFX. Two or more players, with a maximum of 12. There is no single-player mode — the entire game is designed around cooperative multiplayer. The host chooses a 2-player, 3-player or 4+ player version of the world, and some puzzles adapt to that choice. Yes. Big Walk supports crossplay, so players on Steam, Mac App Store, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 can all play together in the same session. No. Big Walk is entirely about teamwork and talking. Everything in the game is designed for cooperative multiplayer. You could start a game and wander a little as a lone player, but you won't get very far. Big Walk is $19.99 on Steam, with a 25% launch discount bringing it to $14.99 during the launch window. Console pricing matches the standard $19.99 tier on PlayStation and Nintendo stores. Yes. Big Walk is a hand-crafted cooperative adventure meant to be played start to finish with a group of friends. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end — the final stretch of puzzles famously pulls together everything you learned along the way. No. Big Walk's in-game text chat has the same features — and the same intentional limitations — as the voice chat. It works with walkie-talkies, fades with distance and fails through soundproof glass. You can play the whole game with text chat only, though House House recommends voice for the full experience. Yes. Both mouse-and-keyboard and most game controllers work well on PC, and Big Walk has full controller support (including DualShock and the Switch 2 mouse mode). All controls are rebindable in Settings > Rebinding. A full playthrough typically takes 20+ hours with a regular group, played across multiple sessions. The host's save keeps your progress, so you can return to the island night after night. Minimum PC specs: Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Core i7-7700K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X, 12 GB RAM, and a GTX 750 Ti 2GB / Radeon R7 370 2GB / Arc A380 6GB. On Mac: macOS 15 with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and 16 GB RAM; M3 or newer is recommended. No. As of launch, Big Walk is available on Windows, Mac, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, and House House has stated no other platforms are planned at this time.What is Big Walk?
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Get Big Walk
Available now on Steam, the Mac App Store, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2. $14.99 on Steam during the launch window (regularly $19.99). This is an unofficial fan guide — buy the game from the official stores below.