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Big Walk is a cooperative multiplayer adventure from House House, the small Melbourne studio behind Untitled Goose Game. It is published by Panic and launches on August 4, 2026 for Steam, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, with full crossplay between all three.
House House describe it as a “walker-talker”: a game less about combat or fast reflexes and more about exploring a big, open world with friends and talking your way through its puzzles.
The one-sentence pitch
You and up to eleven friends control tiny people in a wide-open bushland world, and you solve puzzles together using nothing but your voices, a handful of simple tools, and a lot of coordination.
How a session works
When you start a session, the host picks a world sized for the group — there are 2-player, 3-player and 4-or-more-player versions of the world. Everyone joins through their platform friends list or a join code, and progress saves automatically on the host’s machine.
There is no single-player mode and no random matchmaking. Big Walk is built specifically for playing with people you know, across multiple sessions, the way you might return to a long hiking trip with friends.
What makes it different
The heart of Big Walk is its proximity voice chat. Your voice doesn’t simply broadcast to the whole team — it behaves like real sound:
- It fades with distance, so a friend across the valley can’t hear you clearly.
- It echoes through enclosed spaces like tunnels and hallways.
- It crackles and breaks up when you talk over a walkie-talkie.
Because staying coordinated is genuinely difficult, the way you communicate becomes the gameplay. You’ll mime, shout, draw on whiteboards, fire flares and ring cowbells just to get a simple message across.
Prefer not to use a microphone? Text chat has the same features and limits as voice chat, so you can play entirely by typing.
What you actually do
Each character has a deliberately limited skill set. You can:
- Walk (it’s in the name) and jump
- Grab and kick objects
- Talk, mime and gesture
- Carry and use tools you find along the way
The challenges are designed around teamwork — see our co-op strategy tips for how to make the most of a group.
Is it for you?
Big Walk is ideal if you enjoy relaxed, social games like It Takes Two, Untitled Goose Game or a good party game, and you have at least one friend to play with. It has a clear story with a beginning, middle and end, and afterwards the world remains open as a calm place to hang out.
Next steps: read the beginner’s guide to hit the ground running, or learn how to host and join a session.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 2026-06-16