Big Walk

Big Walk is an upcoming cooperative video game developed by House House and published by Panic. It is a game where players go on a walk through bushland and solve puzzles. It is scheduled for release in 2026.

Big Walk
Developer(s)	House House
Publisher(s)	Panic Inc.
Designer(s)	Stuart Gillespie-Cook Nico Disseldorp Michael McMaster Jacob Strasser
Composer(s)	Sam Gill Luke Neher
Platform(s)	macOS[1] Windows[1]
Release	2026
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Gameplay

Big Walk is a multiplayer co-operative adventure video game in which a group of players walk through the game's open-world environment. Players complete puzzles throughout the game to progress. Many challenges involve teamwork and using novel methods to communicate with one another,^[2] including miming, singing or transmitting codes.^[3] The game features a proximity chat system,^[4] with the voice of players sounding fainter the further away they are on the map.^[3]

Development

Big Walk is being developed by Melbourne-based independent studio House House, the developers of the 2019 game Untitled Goose Game.^[4] Designer Jake Strasser stated the game's approach was to develop a co-operative game that would "give enough direction for the group to keep a good momentum, but relaxed enough that you're mostly just able to enjoy spending time with your friends".^[5] The design of the environment was inspired by the Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria, Australia.^[4][5] The game's soundtrack was developed in a collaboration with artists Sam Gill and Luke Neher under the name AKSFX. The music was designed to be diegetic to the game world, and conveyed through objects such as speakers.^[6]

Big Walk was announced during the Game Awards in December 2023,^[7] accompanying an announcement trailer.^[8] An official gameplay trailer was released on 7 June 2025 to coincide with the Steam Day of the Devs showcase.^[9] Several publications identified Big Walk as one of the best games displayed at the showcase,^[10] including Matt Wales of Eurogamer, praising the concept as "wonderfully distinctive",^[11] and Adam Newell of Destructoid, who stated the appearance of its puzzles seemed "wonderful" and "feels like a game where no two play sessions are the same".^[12] The announcement of console versions of the game coincided with a delay to the release to an unspecified date in 2026.^[13]