Big Walk is out today

For months, I’ve heard rumblings about a cool new game coming out from the people that did the Untitled Goose Game. Last month, I was lucky enough to get to play it in a beta test version with four friends in the same room, working together on screen.

It’s called Big Walk and it’s officially out starting today.

It’s a fun premise and had entirely new-to-me game mechanics. You have to get a few friends and agree to all play the game together at a set time, and everyone has to have good headphones and a microphone.

You’re dropped into a strange place and together you and your friends have to figure out ways to use any objects you find, along with figuring out the various rules of the space, and the audio aspect of it is key to the whole game’s design.

Talking to friends is the only way to figure things out, but the audio is highly directional and degrades quickly if you put any distance between you and your friends. So you have to stick together somewhat.

In my test game, we got dropped onto an island and we figured out quickly we needed to find a few objects to unlock a puzzle, and your first inclination is to shout out “hey everyone, let’s split up and all go find stuff” but once you’re a few feet away from your colleagues you can’t hear them at all. That means if you do find something cool or figure out something new, you have to find others to tell them. And when people start scattering across the game, it gets infinitely more difficult to find your friends again.

I only got to play it for an hour with friends and it was really fun. I can’t wait to get a copy of it, schedule time with friends, and play out the whole game together.

Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.