Big Walk length: how long to finish the game and get 100%?

Big Walk is the cooperative game from House House where you walk, talk, and solve puzzles as a group to unlock the island's zones. No speedrunning here: your playtime depends entirely on your team. If you want an estimate before diving in, here's what you need to know.

Why your playtime will vary enormously

Unlike a typical single-player game, Big Walk doesn't have a fixed length. Several factors come into play, literally:

• How quickly your group solves the tutorial puzzles, each Tower on the island, and then the final tower.
• The number of players in the session: up to 12 people simultaneously, but past a certain threshold, too many people can slow down coordination rather than speed it up.
• How often you pause to agree on a plan, given that proximity chat basically forces you to stay grouped together.
• The number of fast travel options already unlocked based on your progress.

In short, a group of friends who communicate well and think fast will get much further than a team that wanders around without a plan.

How long to finish the main story?

With an efficient group and no major roadblocks, expect between 7 and 10 hours to complete Big Walk. The end of the main adventure is marked by unlocking the Big Goodbye achievement, obtained upon exiting the Black Tower.

That's a wide range, and it makes sense: a three-hour gap can represent the difference between a group that immediately grasps the communication mechanics and a group that goes in circles on a puzzle for twenty minutes because nobody's listening to anybody...

What about 100%?

The Big Goodbye isn't really the end if you want to see everything. By continuing past that point, you unlock the Big Game achievement, along with a batch of purple-themed end-game puzzles. These are tougher versions of the main puzzles, a chance to revisit the mechanics you enjoyed with new objectives or additional constraints.

Honestly, if you enjoyed the level design of the five main towers, these bonus puzzles are a great way to get more out of your session instead of quitting the game right after the credits.

To wrap up these challenges on top of the base game's five towers, plan for between 15 and 20 hours total. Again, this figure goes up or down depending on the group's cohesion: with multiple people, coordination difficulty often weighs more heavily than the difficulty of the puzzles themselves.