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When players first drop into the sprawling, sun-drenched Australian bushland of Big Walk, the atmosphere feels incredibly relaxed. The game pitches itself as a cozy cooperative adventure—a place to hang out, explore, and share a few laughs. However, beneath this accessible exterior lies a mechanical depth that has caught many player groups completely off guard. The environment is heavily gated by intricate, multi-stage challenges that demand absolute precision from your party. As noted by gaming media evaluating the endgame content, House House’s co-op adventure game Big Walk depends heavily on communication, understanding of the surrounding, and most importantly, team synchronization.
Unlike traditional adventure games where puzzles require you to manipulate sliding blocks or decode ancient runes, the puzzles in Big Walk ask a much harder question: Can you and your friends actually communicate effectively? Because the game completely strips away modern UI conveniences like mini-maps, objective markers, and global text chat, information is your most valuable resource. When facing the game’s most difficult puzzles, failure isn’t a result of lacking the right key; it’s a result of someone talking over the walkie-talkie while a crucial instruction was being given. Here is a strategic breakdown of how to overcome the most notoriously difficult communication hurdles in the game.
The Walkie-Talkie Distance Dilemma
The fundamental tool for solving complex, multi-site puzzles in Big Walk is the walkie-talkie. Many of the game’s most difficult environmental locks require players to be positioned at completely opposite ends of the Wilsons Promontory-inspired map, activating mechanisms in a specific, timed sequence.
The challenge arises from the game’s uncompromising commitment to realistic audio physics. Proximity voice chat means that as you walk away from your group, your voice naturally fades. Once out of shouting range, you must rely entirely on the radio. However, the walkie-talkies are governed by line-of-sight and distance degradation. If the “scout” player descends into a deep ravine to read a crucial environmental clue, their radio signal will become engulfed in static.
The Strategy: To solve long-distance timing puzzles, teams must establish a human relay chain. Instead of sending one person miles away while the rest wait at the puzzle door, you must space your players out across the terrain at maximum radio range. Player A talks to Player B, who relays the message to Player C. This requires immense discipline. Establishing clear radio etiquette—using phrases like “Over” to indicate you have finished speaking and leaving the channel open for a response—is not just roleplay; it is a mandatory tactic for community-reported high-tier puzzles.
Decoding the Whiteboard Ciphers
Throughout the wilderness, you will inevitably stumble upon massive whiteboards. These aren’t just for drawing silly pictures with your friends; they are the central hubs for some of the most difficult cognitive puzzles in the game. Often, you will find a whiteboard covered in partial symbols, while the missing pieces of the cipher are hidden inside dark caves or atop distant rock formations.
The difficulty lies in translating visual information strictly through audio. Trying to describe abstract geometric shapes over a crackling radio connection to a player standing at the whiteboard is an exercise in pure frustration and hilarity.
The Strategy: Standardization of language is vital. Before splitting up, your group needs to agree on a naming convention for the symbols you have already discovered on the board. Furthermore, always send players in pairs to investigate the surrounding area. One player holds the flare to provide light in the caves, while the other holds the walkie-talkie to transmit the findings back to the whiteboard team. If you are struggling to hear the descriptions due to environmental noise, make sure you know how to fix low voice chat volume in Big Walk to ensure every crucial detail comes through clearly.
Nighttime Navigation and Flare Management
As the dynamic day-night cycle shifts to darkness, the difficulty of every puzzle spikes exponentially. The bushland becomes incredibly disorienting, and it is remarkably easy to get separated from your group. Some of the most difficult timed puzzles can only be triggered at night, forcing players to navigate treacherous terrain with zero visibility.
In these moments, flares are your only lifeline. However, flares are a finite resource, and burning through them too quickly will leave your expedition stranded in the dark, effectively failing the puzzle as you stumble blindly into obstacles.
The Strategy: Effective inventory management is the key to nighttime puzzles. Utilizing the wearable storage mechanics is non-negotiable here. If you haven’t mastered this yet, review our guide on how to find and wear a backpack in Big Walk. You should designate one player as the “Quartermaster,” whose backpack is entirely dedicated to storing unlit flares. Flares should only be popped at major intersections or when establishing a visual line of sight between two separated groups attempting to converge on a puzzle location. Do not use flares simply to see the ground in front of you; use them as strategic waypoints.
The 12-Player Synchronization Event
The absolute pinnacle of Big Walk’s difficulty curve occurs during massive, 12-player cooperative events. While many puzzles can be completed with a smaller group of 3 or 4 friends, the community has reported discovering massive, map-spanning environmental mechanisms that seemingly require a full lobby of 12 players to stand on specific pressure plates or activate distinct nodes simultaneously.
Organizing 12 people over proximity chat without a global server broadcast is akin to herding cats during a thunderstorm. The sheer volume of overlapping voices creates a chaotic wall of sound that makes puzzle-solving nearly impossible.
The Strategy: For massive expeditions—which you can read more about in our breakdown of how the Big Walk community is organizing massive 12-player expeditions—you must divide and conquer. Elect one “Commander” who stays at a central, elevated position. Divide the remaining 11 players into color-coded squads (utilizing the mechanic detailed in how to change character color and appearance to easily identify teams at a distance). Assign each squad a specific walkie-talkie frequency. The Commander should be the only one switching channels, issuing sequential orders to the Red Team, then the Blue Team, ensuring the network remains clear of cross-talk.
Ultimately, conquering the puzzles in Big Walk is about patience. It is about embracing the moments when communication completely breaks down and recognizing that the journey of trying to explain a simple instruction to a friend on the other side of a digital forest is exactly where the true magic of the game resides.