Summary
Australian indie studio House House, best known forUntitled Goose Game,reveals a brand-new bizarre game known asBig Walk, which will be releasing in 2025. Alongside a host of awards being presented, The Game Awards 2023 showed off plenty of new AAA and indie games for fans to look forward to. These include surprise reveals from developers like Moon Studios, revealing a brand-new indie game calledNo Rest for the Wicked, to Bandai Namco showing offa brand-new trailer forDragon Ball: Sparking! Zero.
House House first came into the gaming scene with the release ofPush Me Pull You, a surreal game that tasked two players to move around while connected together in a sausage-like fashion.Untitled Goose Game, however, would be the title that would put the small Australian studio on the map, where players control a goose and cause all sorts of chaos among the population. Thanks toUntitled Goose Game’s short but hilarious campaign, it became an instant hit, getting ported to multiple systems, including Nintendo Switch. House House is currently working on another game that has the same sense of surreal humor,Big Walk.
Revealed during The Game Awards 2023,Big Walkis touted to be releasing in 2025 for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. This is anonline co-operative multiplayer adventure, set on an island somewhere in Australia. The trailer highlights this with the sounds of local wildlife, such as Kookaburras. The player characters inBig Walkare bipedal bird-like creatures, with the game taking part from a first-person perspective. From there, the player and their co-op partners can explore the island, solving puzzles together. According to House House, the game will put emphasis on figuring these challenges out as a group.
According to Jake Strasser, a developer at House House,Big Walkoffers a relaxed direction that friends can play at their own pace and enjoy spending time together in the world. This includesa proximity voice chat system, allowing players to communicate as efficiently as possible while letting them get immersed in the world.
We’ve developed a rich proximity voice chat system that really grounds players in the environment, and created this big island to get lost in. The island is inspired by the natural landscape of the southernmost point of mainland Australia, Wilsons Promontory National Park. It’s a very special place and we hope we’ve captured some of its beauty inBig Walk.
This game is House House’s most ambitious title yet, which was a big boon for publisher Panic. Panic had previously collaborated with House House in publishingUntitled Goose Gameand is doing the same forBig Walk. Nick Suttner, Panic’s Head of Publishing, stated he was nervous about the studio showing an online multiplayer game at first, but after seeing it, said it was a “refreshing” experience compared to other online multiplayer games.
Untitled Goose Game
WHERE TO PLAY
It’s a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. Make your way around town, from peoples' back gardens to the high street shops to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and generally ruining everyone’s day.
