This is a charming co-op adventure game by small Melbourne-based Australian indie team House House, the guys responsible for the unexpected 2019 smash hit Untitled Goose Game.
For the last six years they’ve been hard at work on Big Walk, which is an online game where you adventure around and solve puzzles with your friends. Maximum chill? Pretty much, but with added sunsets.
Time for Chilled Adventures in Big Walk
Yeah, so this launched on 4th August 2026 and is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, macOS, and Steam (PC). Fantastically, you can do cross-platform play if your friends don’t have, say, a Switch 2 but a stupid woopid GayStation Poo lol lol lol etc.
The goal of it all? To hang out with your real life friends and solve puzzles and stuff. A group of players (up to 12) are let loose in an open-world environment where you wander around, take in the sights, solve puzzles, work together in harmony.
You control these humanoid objects that are a bit birdlike. You have arms and can wander around interacting with things, but the main goal is to solve puzzles through teamwork. You do this with communication:
- Miming
- Singing
- Transmitting codes
- Walkie talkies
- Pointing
Once you complete puzzles, you open up new areas of the world and can go off exploring some more. Behold!
Yeah, so you have to play this with other people or it doesn’t work. Thus, if you’re struggling to get anyone you know to play it (like we did), just find some groups online who are happy to share a group code with you.
Once you’re in it’s all a heaping bunch of fun. We can particularly imagine this being a glorious game for adults to play with their kids, as it requires teamwork, communication, and brain power. A great way to socialise.
Big Walk received instant critical acclaim and is already considered one of the best games of 2026.
It’s very relaxing and charming and a game to totally lose yourself in. There’s a defined ending, so nothing drags on forever with it. But there’s also the capacity to just lounge around, relax, and enjoy the sunsets. All very lovely.
And Let Us Celebrate Big Walk’s Glorious Soundtrack
The lovely score is by composers Sam Gill and Luke Neher, who worked under the name AKSFX. They duo really went off on one and have created a mass of music for the game.
Big Walk has (wait for it)… NINE separate EPs. Many of these are available for free on YouTube, but you can also get them on Bandcamp, Spotify, and other streaming services. Each LP covers around 15 minutes of musical mayhem.
It’s a relaxing and joyous time of it, really channelling into the offbeat nature of the game. We’ve seen it become a big talking point on social media (the good bits of social media where we hang out) amongst fans.
Listen, enjoy, and bask in the chill factor.
