# Big Walk review: 2026’s best multiplayer game tested all of us

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/big-walk-review-2026s-best-multiplayer-game-tested-all-of-us/
- Published: 2026-08-03T13:00:12+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/big-walk-review/
- Topics: Americas, Business

## Key points

- Polygon reviewed Big Walk, a new co-op game by House House.
- Three staff explored an open world with gentle, communication-based puzzles.
- Short-range proximity chat forces players to use gestures to communicate.

## Summary

Polygon's review team put Big Walk, a new co-operative exploration game from Untitled Goose Game developer House House, through its paces to see whether it lives up to billing as a standout multiplayer title. Rather than relying on the shared frustration that drives many recent co-op hits, the game aims for a relaxed, communication-focused experience, tasking players with navigating an open world and solving gentle puzzles together. Three Polygon staff members, Giovanni Colantonio, Julia Lee and Johnny Yu, played through the early stages as a trio, documenting their impressions in a shared log.

The reviewers found themselves as oddly designed, colourful creatures exploring a naturalistic open world dotted with brightly coloured, playground-like structures, which helped them plan routes and identify meeting points. A short-range proximity chat system deliberately limits how far players can hear one another, pushing them to communicate through physical gestures such as waving, flailing or stomping instead. Early puzzles required teamwork, including boosting one player up to reach a switch and freeing a mysterious segmented object the group nicknamed a "baby", alongside further challenges involving hidden symbols, a heavy ball requiring relay-style teamwork, and a basketball-style activity, all reinforcing the game's emphasis on close cooperation.

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