What critics said
PC Gamer90A joyous jaunt through a gentle world full of thoughtfully-designed puzzles.
IGN90Big Walk is a rewarding co-op adventure full of beautiful emergent moments as you find solutions to cleverly built puzzles and explore its vast open world with your friends.
Eurogamer100The Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting, and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure that combines knockabout fun with some surprisingly big ideas.
Big Walk news
House House will not release Big Walk on Xbox in support of pro-Palestinian BDS campaign
Melbourne-based developer House House will not release its co-op hit Big Walk on Xbox, citing support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
Big Walk Developer Issues Statement On Why The Game Won't Be Coming To Xbox
"We understand the disappointment we’re causing". As you've probably already seen, Big Walk is one of the huge indie successes of 2026, recieving ridiculously high review scores and being rated by Metacritic as the fourth best game of the year as things stand. With PS5 and Switch 2 versions already on the market, it's only natural that Xbox fans have been asking when it's their turn to get the game on Series X and S, but unfortunately that's not going to be happening. Read the full article on pu
Big Walk devs House House announce support for BDS Microsoft boycott, say the co-op puzzler isn't coming to Xbox
House House, creators of breezy co-op puzzle adventure Big Walk, have become the latest high-profile game developers to express support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement's ongoing Microsoft boycott. The developers, who also made avian mischief sim Untitled Goose Game, wrote in a post that they've been observing the boycott – called in 2025 in protest of Microsoft's business ties with the Israeli military – for a while, citing it as the reason why Big Walk went without an Xbox
Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israel
Big Walk's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, which has called to boycott Microsoft, including products under the company's gaming division. Microsoft was named a priori
Big Walk Not Coming to Xbox as Developer Backs Microsoft Boycott Movement
Developer House House wrote that the decision was made "in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS movement’s call to boycott Microsoft" The post Big Walk Not Coming to Xbox as Developer Backs Microsoft Boycott Movement appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.
Big Walk developer explains the lack of Xbox version is due to Microsoft's place on the BDS boycott
Big Walk developer House House has explained the lack of an Xbox version for the popular co-operative puzzle game, pointing to the ongoing BDS boycott as the core reason behind its decision.
Big Walk Developer Explains Why the Game Isn't on Xbox
Big Walk developer House House has explained why it’s boycotting Xbox and thus why the game isn’t available on Microsoft's console.
Opinion: Big Walk Is Already My GOTY Because It Brings Faraway Friends Closer Like Nothing Else
These boots are made for big walkin’. People are usually surprised when they hear I’ve managed to stay close with my childhood friends after living overseas for the better part of two decades. I don’t think it’s particularly surprising. But perhaps for most people, great distances and long periods of time without meeting up almost inevitably lead to social bonds fizzling and eventually giving out. Losing touch was always something I feared. Within my friend group, though, video calling and onlin
Filling Big Walk with people who had no one to play with demonstrated how deceptively profound it can be
Suddenly, I'm alone. Where there was once cacophonous sound all around me, now there is none. Where there were once blobby people with sausage noses waggling their Playdough arms all around me, now there are none. All I see is a forest rapidly darkening, and all I hear is the sound of nothing, beating like the sound of my heartbeat in my ears. The contrast is unnerving. Where has my pack of people gone? I don't want to be on my own.
Big Walk is Pulling Families Apart
Big Walk is causing households to find ways to play alone, together. House House helps us explore the unintended social dynamics with gaming families. The post Big Walk is Pulling Families Apart
"We're not really sure what Big Walk's future looks like," say the waddling co-op puzzler's devs, though it probably doesn’t involve DLC
I’ve spent something like seven hours in funny-thinky cooperative puzzler Big Walk, and the concept of more Big Walk is something that confounds and, just a little bit, frightens me. What, you spent an entire evening stubbing toes in the dark and overconfidently barking incorrect solutions at friends, only for the opening of the map room to reveal the humbling significance of your progress thus far, and you want more? Friend, if I play this until my forties, I might make it halfway through. Even
Big Walk strides to sales success, passing an impressive milestone in under one week
Developer House House's collaborative puzzle-solving and hangout game par excellence, Big Walk, has found encouraging commercial success. Publisher Panic announced on Bluesky that it's already passed 1m sales.
Big Walk has sold over 1 million copies worldwide
All walk. All talk.
Big Walk has sold more than one million copies, not counting PlayStation Plus downloads
Panic's game has passed one million sales despite being available for 'free' on PS5
Big Walk's voice chat volume issue has been resolved with its latest patch, but House House are sticking to their guns on its overall design
We've all been there. You're out on a hike with some friends, solving some abstract puzzles for a purpose that's not immediately clear, when you get two feet away from your pals and they're as quiet as a dormouse. Or at least, that's been the case for a bunch of folks playing Big Walk, Untitled Goose Game studio House House's latest, as the secret Predator game's approach to proximity chat has made it a little difficult to hear your friends. But an update seemingly fixing the issue is here! Just
Big Walk Review
A clever co-op puzzle adventure that uses communication like no other.
Big Walk simulates the strange, childlike sensation of being unexpectedly separated from your friends, and the joy and relief of finding your way back
The other week, the SIM card in my phone stopped working. At first, working from home, the change was barely noticeable: a router handled my internet coverage, and Whatsapp messages continued unabated. Only once I left the house did I realise that a safety net had been cut. I’ve never once called for a fire engine, but the option has long been a source of comfort. Now, suddenly SIMless, I could not. Nor could I check in with my wife about which binbags to buy. Wi-fi spots at Starbucks and shoppi
Big Walk isn't an open world hangout sim, it's a secret Predator game, or it would be if House House would quit fixing the voice volume
You may have heard that Big Walk, the 12-player open world bumble-a-thon from Untitled Goose Game developers House House, is "a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking". You may have been tempted to call it a "hangout game", or the "antidote to friendslop". You may have read that it's a "sleepy, post-apocalyptic Center Parcs resort", in which players kick rolling lamps around and solve puzzles that involve rocks with keyholes. Such laughable fabrications! Big Walk is actuall
Round Up: This PS Plus Game Is One of the Highest Rated Games of the Year
Big Walk getting big talk. It shouldn't come as an enormous surprise, but Big Walk — from the makers of Untitled Goose Game — is getting huge praise. This is a multiplayer adventure game in which you and up to 11 buddies are placed within a large open environment and set loose to explore it. Read the full article on pushsquare.com
Review: Big Walk (Switch 2) - A Co-Op Adventure Like Nothing Else That Somehow Struggles On Switch 2
Little House House on the Prairie. If you’re familiar with House House’s previous title, Untitled Goose Game, you’ll know that the whole game hinges on surprises and quiet charm. Big Walk is entirely different in its structure, but those key principles are made even more pertinent, so I’m going to do my best to skirt around specific details and revealing too much; it’s a game best experienced as blindly as possible with someone close to you. So I played through the whole thing with my wife, Sash
Big Walk Is One Of The Best Co-Op Games Ever
In the three years since Big Walk was announced, I've heard it referred to as a co-op walking sim, a puzzle-adventure game, and friendslop. After spending 20+ hours in the world of the Australian Outback-inspired game, it's no easier to succinctly define it, because it's not actually like anything else. By inventively stripping down the medium to its most essential parts, it invites novices and experts alike to build it back up from scratch, coloring in its mysterious world with their friends by
Big Walk review
"Chris, I think you're muted. Your nose has gone small."
Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild
Untitled Goose Game is a tough act to follow. It was a silly experience that captured what I imagine it would feel like to be a sentient goose: a lot of waddling, a lot of honking, and a lot of shenanigans. That's why Big Walk, the next game from Goose Game developer House House, feels like a radical and unexpected departure. Instead of playing as a goose terrorizing a small village, Big Walk is a co-op multiplayer game where you explore a large island and have to work together to solve puzzles.
Big Walk was born during a COVID lockdown out of a distaste for birthday party Zoom calls
You know, I've been thinking about going for a nice big walk sometime soon. Well, not that soon, maybe sometime in the summer? Before I lock anything in, I'll just watch this new thing about House House's Big Walk and… oh, would you look at that! It's got a release date now, and for this summer too!
Big Walk's creators reflect on their six-year journey
The mandatory COVID lockdowns of 2020 inspired Big Walk. Melbourne-based developer House House – which was behind the 2019 hit Untitled Goose Game – wanted to create something that was about socialising outside with your friends at a time when this was impossible. But the devs had no idea it would take six years to complete.
First PS Plus Essential Game for August 2026 Announced
You can go for a Big Walk. If you were watching today's Nintendo Direct, did you catch the first PS Plus Essential game for August 2026 was quite sneakily announced? Big Walk was previously confirmed to be a PS Plus Essential game whenever it launches, and now we have a release date: 4th August 2026. This is a Tuesday, and it lines up completely with how Sony announces its titles and then releases them. It's a rare day one release straight onto PS Plus Essential from PlayStation. Read the full a
Big Walk adds Switch 2 version, launches August 4
Big Walk, a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking, will launch for PlayStation 5, … Source
I was the untitled goose in Big Walk, the balmy new open world co-op puzzler from House House
House House were kind enough to keep a video of my hands-on session with Big Walk, filmed by one of the participating PRs. Generally, a full video of a preview event including player audio is a lifesaver for a journalist, struggling to keep notes while pushing buttons. But in this case, I don't want to watch the Big Walk video, because then I would hear what the other players were saying when I wasn't there. You see, I fell down a cliff midway through Big Walk, and spent the night floundering ab
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This week in PC games: Beast of Reincarnation, Big Walk, and Marvel Tōkon, plus a round table RPG, some flammable robots, and a flock of lovestruck pigeons
Ugh, morning has come again. The sultry undergrowth of night has yielded to the obnoxious leaf blower of wakefulness. Another week tumbles pendulously from the unzipped flies of the future. My bed beseeches me: Son of Man, do not waste your time in the upright world. Crawl back under the covers. Embrace your pillow. Forget the sun. But I can't do that, bed, because I have already checked my inbox in a fit of self-loathing, and would you believe there are new PC games to write about???
Nintendo Download: 30th July (North America)
Lies of P! Big Walk! Bokura! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch 1 & 2 eShop - Highlights Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Nintendo, 30th Jul, $69.99) - Lost in a sea of clouds, entire civilizations rest on the backs of Titans. As the giant beasts march toward death, the last h
August’s three PlayStation Plus ‘free’ Essential monthly games include Dying Light 2 and Big Walk
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PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for August – Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition, Big Walk, Signalis
Be fleet of foot to survive a post-apocalyptic cityscape alone or with pals, buddy up to walk and talk your way through a pleasant puzzle-filled world, or take a solo trip into a dystopian future for a brooding slice of psychological survival horror with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for August. Dying Light 2 Stay […]