Big Walk Reviews
A joyous jaunt through a gentle world full of thoughtfully-designed puzzles.
Big 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.
The Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting, and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure that combines knockabout fun with some surprisingly big ideas.
I’m truly excited to keep taking my Big Walks – no matter the off-putting name of the friendslop genre, this game is what you make it, and I believe each group that plays will make it their own unique kind of wonderful.
Big Walk takes fundamental and timeless video game concepts–obstacles and incentives for clearing them–and, through an intensely focused co-op experience, shapes them into something singularly rewarding, supremely mysterious, and totally unforgettable.
Big Walk is a game that is nothing short of outstanding in its design, a co-op adventure that feels like you're 12 years old again and venturing across those fields with your buddies.Its strict reliance on communication and clever puzzle design makes it one of the most rewarding games I think I've ever played, but its technical shortcomings on the Switch 2 version do take the shine off a touch. Thankfully, it's not enough to break what is one of the most unique and intriguing games released this decade, if you're willing to learn to communicate.
The creators of Untitled Goose Game return with an online, open-world adventure that delivers slapstick silliness and bucolic majesty in nearly equal measure
Big Walk is a quiet yet genius co-op experience. It sets you up with a fun interactive team-based system and just leaves you to uncover its wonders. The sense of discovery is palpable, and I was often blown away by the game's sense of scale and how it implemented progression in a seamless yet meaningful way. If you and your mates are looking for your next co-op fix, this is something special and unlike anything else out there.
If you're into co-op games at all, you should give Big Walk a chance.
Big Walk is a triumph. It's a wonderful exercise in hanging out with your mates and getting those grey cells working at the same time, all wrapped up in a quirky and beautiful environment. It facilitates conversation, slapstick, and having a bit of a sit-down in between things.
Big Walk is an incredible puzzle game, an incredible co-op game, and an incredible exploration game. If you have a group with even a passing interest in one of those things, big run, don't big walk to play this with them.
If you have a group of agreeable friends with strong internet connections, plenty of time to spare, and a commitment to see the game through, Big Walk could be highly memorable. We're hoping for a sequel with Gameshare support that's a little more of an exploration puzzle-solving adventure, and a little less walking simulator. The former was our highlight, and once the "walker-talker" novelty wears off, they're what will make the game endure as a showcase of its best.
Big Walk is a big win. Evolving the social game format in a way that feels almost unrecognisable, House House has produced something that is as compelling as it is confident in achieving what it set out to achieve.
Big Walk earns a place in the top tier of co-operative games, with greater depth than countless games it could be compared against. Proximity chat is far from a gimmick; communication is as much a mechanic as running and jumping. No two puzzles are the same, and sometimes the work required becomes tedious, but it does well to avoid overstaying its welcome. House House have cleverly shown restraint in crafting a game that's all about the journey and not the destination.
Big Walk delivers on a promise that's rare in cooperative games: nothing here is scripted, and the funniest moments are ones the game couldn't have planned even if it wanted to.
Big Walk is a unique cooperative game that, instead of large-scale battles and extensive progression, prioritizes exploration, communication, and small adventures together.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Big Walk's greatest achievement is that its best moments aren't scripted, they happen spontaneously. Losing a teammate, exploring an unknown path, a silly misunderstanding, or just tinkering with a confusing tool feel every bit as rewarding as solving its most complex puzzles, and if you bring a few friends and some patience, it delivers one of the finest co-op experiences around.
Review in Persian | Read full review
One of the best games for spending time with friends. Big Walk doesn't try to limit you, doesn't force you to rush, and doesn't stress you out, but creates all the conditions for a fun and soulful time.
Review in Russian | Read full review
While Big Walk could very well be someone's Game of the Year, most people will likely get burnt out by its backtracking and voice chat system.
It raises, with insight and calm, directly and indirectly, profound reflections on human nature, on the need to socialize to survive, on loneliness. All this while controlling ants with pulsating noses, which awkwardly emit funny noises, busy solving brilliant puzzles in an uninhabited environment.
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