Big Walk is presented as an unusual co-operative puzzle adventure in which communication is the central challenge. The reviewer argues that its reliance on players developing their own shared vocabulary and understanding makes it unlike most multiplayer games, turning exploration and problem-solving into a collective exercise.

Players receive little direction, begin in an open environment, and can only communicate through proximity-based voice chat, whose sound changes with distance and surroundings. The game supports up to 12 people and adapts puzzles for groups of two, three, or four-plus; an early puzzle involving a distant button, a red object and a delivery structure illustrates how groups gradually learn the world’s logic together.