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Where to find people to play Big Walk with

Big Walk has no matchmaking, so every session starts with a Join Code from someone. Here are the three places people actually organise, and how to post.

Three places with people in them

None of the three is run by House House or Panic. Big Walk has no official community server and no matchmaking, so everything below is organised by players.

r/BigWalk on RedditBest forPlanning a session for later, and finding console playersThe main fan subreddit. Posts stay visible for days, which makes it the right place when you are arranging a time rather than trying to start in the next ten minutes. It is also where PS5 and Switch 2 players gather, since neither console has a Steam friends list to fall back on.Before you postGroup posts belong in the subreddit's LFG Megathread, not the main feed — the rules require it, and standalone group posts get removed. Accounts with almost no comment history are filtered automatically too, so if yours is new, comment somewhere before you post.Open
Big Walk Community DiscordBest forFilling a group in the next few minutesA community-run server — not an official one, and not affiliated with House House or Panic. Voice channels mean you can hear each other before the session starts, which matters in a game where proximity chat is the mechanic. Best option when you want to play now.Before you postFind the looking-for-group channel rather than posting in general chat. Servers this size move fast: a request scrolls away in minutes, so ask when you are actually ready to play, not an hour beforehand.Open
Steam community discussionsBest forPC and Mac players, and longer-running threadsThe discussion board on Big Walk's Steam hub. Useful if everyone in your group is on Steam already, because you can add each other as friends and skip Join Codes entirely. Posting there needs a Steam account that owns the game.Before you postSteam requires that you own Big Walk to post in its hub, and brand-new accounts that have never spent anything on Steam are limited and cannot post at all. Mac App Store buyers do not get Steam access — that is a separate purchase.Open

Say these four things in your post

Most unanswered group posts are missing one of these. Including them turns a post nobody can act on into one somebody can.

The language you will be speaking: This is the filter that actually matters, and the one most posts leave out. Crossplay works across every platform, so which console you own decides nothing — but a group that cannot talk to each other cannot solve a single puzzle in this game. Put the language in the title, not buried in the body.
How many you already have: A world is sized at 2, 3, or 4-plus when it is created, and the size stays with the session. Two people looking for a third is a different request from two people wanting a full group.
Your region, timezone and a window: Not "tonight" — a region people recognise (EU, NA, Asia), an actual range, and the timezone it is in. This is the single most common reason a group post goes nowhere.
Voice or text: The game supports both. Saying which you want up front saves everyone the awkward first five minutes.

A post you can copy

A title plus six lines, all four things covered. The title matters most — it is all anyone scrolling a board actually reads, and the posts that get answered put the world size, region and language right there in it.

Title: 4+ EU/English, starting Saturday evening

Language: English
Group so far: 2 of us
Looking for: 2 more — we want a 4+ world
When: Saturday, 8–11pm UK time (GMT+1)
Voice or text: voice preferred, text is fine
Notes: first playthrough, please no spoilers

Two things this leaves out on purpose. There is no platform line, because crossplay makes it irrelevant — saying "PS5 only" turns away people who could have joined you. And the "no spoilers" line does more work than it looks like: Big Walk is built around puzzles, and a stranger who has already finished it will otherwise solve them out loud in the first hour.

If you are not looking for an English group

Big Walk's puzzles are built on talking to each other, so the language your group speaks decides more than any setting in the game does. Non-English groups do form — they are just harder to find, and some languages have a much thinner crowd than others.

Steam's board is the one that carries other languages: Of the three venues, the Steam discussion hub is where non-English group posts actually appear — Russian and Chinese threads sit alongside the English ones. Check the rules of the subreddit and the Discord before posting in another language there; neither is a safe assumption.
Put the language in the title, in that language: Someone scrolling a board for their own language is scanning titles for their own script. A Chinese or Russian title gets found by the people who can answer it; the same request written in English inside the post does not.
Add one English line if you can: A title in your language plus a single English line — world size, region, and that you are looking — widens who can answer without costing you the people you were aiming at. Bilingual players read both.
Expect to wait longer, and repost: A smaller language pool means fewer people scrolling at any moment, not fewer people overall. A post that got nothing is usually a timing problem rather than a demand problem — repost in your own evening hours rather than giving up on it.

Before you play with strangers

Voice chat with people you have never met is the part of this game that most needs thinking about beforehand, and it is worth two minutes.

Voice is not required: Big Walk supports text chat as well as proximity voice. If you would rather not talk to strangers, say so in your post — it is a normal request and it filters for people who are fine with it.
The host decides who stays: Whoever created the world can remove people from it. If you are the one gathering a group of strangers, being the host is the safer side of that to be on.
Treat a Join Code as semi-public: Anyone who has the code can use it while the session is open. Posting one on a public board invites whoever reads it, not only the person you were talking to.

Questions people ask before they post

There are only two of us. Is that enough?

Yes. Two is the minimum, and a 2-player world is one of the sizes the game offers when you create a session. You do not need to find ten strangers to start.

Nobody replied to my post. What now?

Check that all four things are in it — platform, group size, timezone with a window, and voice or text. If they are, repost at a different time of day: a post written at 3am in the venue's main timezone gets seen by almost nobody.

Do I have to use voice chat?

No. The game supports text chat alongside proximity voice. Say which you want in your post so you match with people who want the same thing.

Can I find people through the game itself?

No. Big Walk has no matchmaking and no server browser — there is no in-game way to meet strangers. Everyone you play with is someone you arranged with beforehand, which is why these venues exist.

We cannot all make the same evening. Can we split it up?

Yes, but the save belongs to whoever hosted, so that person has to be online for the group to continue the same world. Pick your host with the schedule in mind rather than by who has the best connection.