What everything in Big Walk is called

What the game actually names

These come from the Steam store description and the official site, so they are the words to use when you want to be understood by someone outside your group — or when you are searching for help.

Notice the store description ends with "an assortment of tools and toys". The studio deliberately left the list open, which is the root of everything below.

• Walkie-talkie — talking at range; voices crackle through it
• Megaphone — being heard by more than one person at once
• Binoculars — seeing what you cannot walk to
• Laser pointer — indicating exactly which one you mean
• Flare — signalling position without describing it
• Whiteboard — writing something down where others can see it
• Cowbell — noise, and noise is a signal
• A big golden head — named by the store description, and left at that

The scanner: no official name, twenty unofficial ones

There is a handheld device that marks or reveals things. It does not appear in the official FAQ's list of communication tools, and it is not named on the store page or the official site. As far as public material goes, it has no name.

So groups name it themselves, and a thread asking what people call it drew ninety replies with no consensus. The most common answers were item finder and scanner; camera and scope were close behind.

One player said the game refers to it as an item finder internally. We have not been able to confirm that against anything official, so treat it as the most likely candidate rather than the answer.

• Function-first: item finder, thing finder, item scanner, object finder, item detector
• Shape-first: camera, night vision camera, spy camera, viewfinder, scope, the gun
• Borrowed from other games or gear: lidar, EMF, X-ray gun, spectrometer, rangefinder, signal scope
• Groups that gave up: the useless thing, wall hack, the surveyor

The collectibles: gourd, baby, or blorb

The orange things you pick up have no official name either. A Steam thread asking about them opened with a genuine list of guesses — is it a baby, a gourd, a child, a melon, a peanut — and the replies did not settle it.

Three separate communities landed in roughly the same place. English players mostly say gourd, with baby, pear, papaya and avocado close behind. Spanish-speaking players say calabaza, which is also gourd. Chinese-speaking players say 葫芦, which is also gourd. Press coverage of the completion route calls them blorbs.

So if you are searching in English, gourd and blorb are the two words most likely to find you an answer. Inside your own group it does not matter what you call them, as long as everyone uses the same word.

Why naming things is not trivia here

In most games a glossary is a convenience. In Big Walk it is closer to a tactic, because describing an object precisely to someone who cannot see it is the actual puzzle mechanic.

Two players using different words for the same object is a communication failure the game is specifically built to punish. "Bring the scanner" and "bring the camera" are the same request, and a group that has not agreed which word it uses will lose a minute to it every time.

The practical advice is to name things out loud the first time you find them, and to prefer the official word when there is one. It is the version the rest of the internet uses, which matters the moment someone has to search mid-session.