An hour of puzzle-solving in the quirky world of Big Walk is the most fun I've had in co-op in ages

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We could. We picked each other up, and the three of us, standing on each other’s shoulders, could now reach the button easily.I won’t reveal what the purpose of pushing that button was—we didn’t realize it for a while ourselves—but it was just the first of a half-dozen or so puzzles we encountered in the game’s gentle open world. Like the tower, solving these puzzles required exploration, teamwork, lots of communication, and at least one dance party. You may like You can play Big Walk before launch, but only if you take a big walk to the publisher’s office to play it in person Peak shows you don’t need horror or quirky party games to be one of the best co-ops in years Burglin’ Gnomes is the next great friend-slop game that everyone with a PC and at least one other friend should check out OK, the dance party wasn’t required, but like everything else in Big Walk, it was a lot of fun anyway.I played Big Walk in Portland, Oregon, at publisher Panic’s office (developer House House is located in Australia and was not present). After getting our bearings in a minimalist tutorial room, my two co-op partners and I (playing with me were The Verge’s senior reporter Jay Peters and the Portland Mercury’s arts & culture editor Suzette Smith) wandered off into a world filled with trees, hills, rivers, a day-night cycle—and lots of puzzles. Big Walk has an immediate goofy charm: players look like bipedal ants (in a cute way) with bulbous bodies supported by noodly legs, plus stretchy arms,