Rock Paper Shotgun's writer explores House House's upcoming co-op hiking game Big Walk, focusing on how its unusually tight proximity voice chat recreates the disorienting feeling of accidentally losing sight of friends. Unlike similar "friendslop" titles such as Peak or Content Warning, where separation usually only happens during dramatic mishaps like falls or deaths, Big Walk lets players drift out of earshot through the smallest of missteps, such as walking around opposite sides of a rock, making the experience feel more true to the childlike anxiety and relief of getting briefly lost and found again.

The article highlights that although Big Walk resembles other multiplayer exploration games at first glance, it has been in development for years rather than being a quick game-jam project, giving its world a more considered, slow-burn quality. Its island zones are filled with unexplained curiosities to discover together, from a valley "sensory garden" of musical speakers to a hilltop flare cannon and a stationary blue train, alongside sound-based puzzles such as coordinating lever pulls across a noisy shoreline or silently directing a soundproofed teammate. The writer likens its spirit of unexplained, playful discovery to what Myst sequel Riven aimed for, wrapped in bouncy 3D movement, with only mildly "sticky" boulder physics noted as a minor criticism.