Big Walk System Requirements, Steam Deck and Accessibility

Windows Requirements

Mac Requirements

What These Requirements Actually Tell You

Requirement tables are usually skimmed for a yes or no. This one is worth reading properly, because the numbers are lopsided in a way that says something about the game.

The minimum spec is a fast CPU with a slow GPU

The minimum processor is an Intel Core i7-7700K — a flagship desktop chip from 2017. The minimum graphics card is a GTX 750 Ti, a budget card from 2014 with 2 GB of memory. Those two parts were never sold to the same person. A machine built around a 750 Ti almost certainly had a mid-range i5, and anyone who bought a 7700K paired it with something far stronger than a 750 Ti.

Listing them together is a deliberate signal: Big Walk needs processor headroom much more than it needs graphics power. That fits what the game is doing. A twelve-player session has to simulate twelve characters, their physics, their tools and toys, and their positional voice streams all at once, in a world with no loading screens. Rendering a stylised, low-detail landscape is the easy half.

The practical takeaway: if you are on the edge, a graphics card upgrade will do less for your frame rate here than it would in most games. Old integrated graphics are a real problem, but an old quad-core will hurt more, and it will hurt most in exactly the situation you bought the game for — a full lobby.

12 GB of RAM is a lot for a game that looks this gentle

Plenty of 2026 releases with far busier visuals ask for 8 GB. Big Walk asking 12 GB as a minimum, and 16 GB as a recommendation, points the same direction as the CPU requirement: a lot of simultaneously-simulated state, held in memory, for a world you can walk across without a break.

If you have exactly 12 GB, close the browser before a long session. Voice chat, a Discord call and thirty tabs on a 12 GB machine is how a smooth walk turns into a stuttering one two hours in.

The Mac version asks for more memory than the PC version

Windows minimum: 12 GB. Mac minimum: 16 GB. That is unusual, and it is not a typo on Steam's side — the Mac recommendation is also 16 GB, meaning House House lists no separate headroom tier for Mac at all. On Apple Silicon the memory is unified between the processor and the graphics, so the graphics workload draws from the same pool the simulation is using. A base 8 GB M1 or M2 machine falls below the minimum even though its chip is comfortably fast enough.

If you are buying a Mac to play this with friends, memory matters more than the chip generation. A 16 GB M1 clears the bar; an 8 GB M3 does not.

Steam Deck: Verified

Big Walk carries Valve's Steam Deck Verified badge, the top of the three compatibility tiers. Verified is not a general statement that the game runs; it means Valve tested it on Deck hardware and it passed all four specific checks:

• The default controller configuration is fully functional — no custom mapping needed before you play.
• On-screen controller prompts match the Deck's own buttons, rather than showing Xbox or PlayStation glyphs.
• Interface text is legible at the Deck's screen size.
• The default graphics configuration performs adequately on Deck hardware.

The second check is worth noticing for a game that leans on tools, toys and gestures. Wrong button prompts are a small annoyance in a solo game and a genuine problem when three friends are trying to tell you which button to press.

Note also that Big Walk has no native Linux build — the Steam listing offers Windows and macOS only. Deck Verified therefore means it runs well through Proton, Valve's compatibility layer. Desktop Linux players can generally expect it to work for the same reason, but Valve certifies the Deck specifically, not your distribution.

One caveat that no badge covers: this is a voice-chat game. Verified says nothing about the Deck's built-in microphone in a noisy room. A headset is the difference between being heard and being the friend everyone gives up on.

Accessibility Features

Big Walk ships with four accessibility options that Steam lists as store features. Steam's accessibility tags are declared by the developer, and the tag tells you a feature exists without telling you how deep it goes, so treat this as a list of what is present rather than a review of how well it works.

The last one matters more in this game than the tag suggests. Big Walk is a shared walk with no fail states, and the unlock rates on our achievements page back that up — the drop-off between milestones is gradual, with no point where the player population collapses against a wall. Nobody gets stranded because they were half a second slow.

Audio, Controllers and Languages

Stereo only

Steam lists Big Walk's audio as Stereo Sound — there is no surround output. Proximity voice chat is still positional: a friend to your left is louder in your left ear, and that is how you find each other in a crowd. It is simply done in two channels. A pair of headphones does more for you here than a 5.1 setup, which the game will just fold back down to stereo. More on how the proximity system behaves in the voice chat guide.

Controllers

Steam lists full controller support, plus explicit DualShock and DualSense support. Full support means the whole game, including menus, is playable on a pad without touching a keyboard — useful when a PC is plugged into a television and several people are on the sofa.

Languages

Big Walk is available in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

This is interface and text localisation. In a game whose main channel is your own voice, the language that matters most is the one your group speaks — crossplay lets a mixed-language group play together, but nothing translates what you say to each other.

Sharing a Copy

Big Walk is tagged for Steam Family Sharing, so a copy can be shared with people in your Steam family. One thing to be clear about before you plan a group night: sharing lends the copy, it does not clone it. Two people cannot play the same copy at the same time, which is exactly what co-op needs. A group of four needs four copies. Sharing is useful for letting a friend try the game while you are not playing, not for filling out a lobby.

Steam Cloud is also supported, so your progress follows you between PCs on the same account.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cleared the requirements? The how to play guide covers setup and your first lobby, and the online troubleshooting guide is there if the group cannot connect.