The team behind Untitled Goose Game announced Big Walk in late 2023, and even though its description was pretty straightforward—"a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking" —there's still a lot of mystery around it. What kind of teamwork will it require? Are there any goals? What are those weird wobbly spheric creatures, and can they honk?
Big Walk got a big showing at today's Day of the Devs showcase, and what struck me in 2023 as a niche amusement now feels quite ambitious: it's a bit like a cooperative sandbox take on The Witness. In a big open world that resembles the Australian outback (House House is from Melbourne) you and a group of friends will "walk" and "talk". The latter utilises a proximity chat system that works as you'd expect: the further away your friend is on the map, the fainter their voice will be.
