Plan before you host
How Long Does Big Walk Take to Beat?
Big Walk is built to be played across several evenings with the same group, and the ending arrives when your group is done — not on a timer. Treat everything below as planning, not as a stopwatch.
The rest of the island, from puzzles to endings, is routed from the Big Walk Guide home page
First ending, planning range
~10–15 hours
Official fixed runtime
None published
Finished groups have run
~9h · ~12h · ~17h
Quick answer
Plan for roughly 10–15 hours to reach the first ending, but read that as a range rather than a runtime. Finished groups have come in around 9–12 hours, while larger or more curious groups take noticeably longer. House House has not published one fixed number.
Chasing 100% adds time on top of the first ending. Community figures often sit in the high teens, and they move as more groups finish.
Planning ranges by goal
| Goal | Planning range | What it is based on |
|---|---|---|
| Reaching the first ending | ~10–15 hours | Finished runs of about 9–12 hours, with room for a group that takes its time. |
| A wandering first run | 15 hours and up | Groups that follow every path instead of the towers they are pointed at. |
| Full completion | Longer than the first ending | No fixed figure has been published, so this one stays open. |
What Counts As Beating Big Walk?
Three different goals get called "finishing the game", and they take very different amounts of time.
Reaching the first ending
The main journey, from the opening area to Big Goodbye. This is what the range on this page describes.
Finishing everything
The first ending, then the challenges, rewards and post-game objectives your group did not pick up on the way.
Reaching Big Game
The last layer, and the one that needs the most of the world completed first. It is a completion goal, not a longer story.
The endings and the completion layers each have their own guide, so this page does not redefine them. See the endings →
How These Numbers Were Put Together
Playtime figures for this game come from three places, and they do not carry the same weight.
Confirmed by the developer
- ✓ The game is a long-form adventure with a real ending
- ✓ It is designed for the same group to play across several sessions
- ✓ The host saves the journey, and the same host continues it
- ✓ World settings for 2, 3 and 4+ players change part of the world
Groups that finished the game
These are individual runs, not an average. A group that explores will not land on these numbers.
- ~9hGame Informer플레이어 3명곁가지 콘텐츠에 들르지 않고 곧장 엔딩까지 달린 집중 플레이예요.
- 약 12시간PC Gamer플레이어 3명3명이서 메인 여정을 끝까지 마쳤지만 100%는 노리지 않은 플레이예요.
- 약 17시간Player group플레이어 6~8명인원이 더 많은 그룹으로, 여러 번 모여서 플레이했고 첫 엔딩에는 한참 뒤에야 도달했어요.
Examples from three separate groups — not a benchmark.
Community estimates
Completion figures for 100% are community estimates. They differ between sources and shift over time, so none of them is quoted here as a fixed length.
How Long Does 100% Take?
Full completion runs longer than the first ending, because optional challenges, rewards and post-game objectives are still open when the credits land.
How much longer depends on your own save. A group that already cleared most challenges as it travelled has far less left than a group that beelined the towers.
See what's still requiredWhat Makes Big Walk Take Longer?
The spread between a nine-hour run and a seventeen-hour run is mostly the group, not the game.
- Getting lost — the game rarely points at your next objective, so route-finding eats time.
- Talking it through — much of the game is working out how to describe what you can see to each other.
- Poking around — groups that walk down every path and open every door simply play longer.
- Bigger groups — more people can search at once, but they also take longer to regroup and agree.
- Puzzle pace — one puzzle can take five minutes for one group and half an hour for another.
Does Player Count Change How Long It Takes?
Yes, but not in a straight line — and more players is not automatically faster.
The 2, 3 and 4+ settings change parts of the world, so the work in front of you is not identical between them. On top of that, a bigger group splits the searching but pays for it in coordination.
The finished runs on this page disagree with each other for exactly that reason: two three-player groups came in three hours apart. There is no published chart of 2-player versus 3-player versus 4+ times to compare against.
Compare the player countsHow Many Evenings Should You Plan?
Pick the length of a normal session for your group and this converts the range into evenings.
First ending at 3-hour sessions
4–5 evenings
Add a spare evening if your group likes to explore.
Keep the same host for every session so the journey carries over. How hosting and saves work →
Based on a 10–15 hour first ending.
Do You Have to Play It in One Go?
No. Nothing is lost when you stop for the night.
The host saves the journey automatically, and the next session continues from where the group stopped. That is why the multi-session design matters more than the hour count: you are planning several short runs, not one long one.
Hosting and savesCan You Finish It in One Night?
Only as a very long sitting, and that is not how the game is built to be played.
The fastest finished groups were still around nine hours, which is already past a normal evening. Most groups should plan several sessions instead.
Skipping challenges can shorten a route, but it is there as an accessibility option and it changes what your group actually completes.
What Happens After the Ending?
The journey ends, and the same save keeps going. There is more to do in the world, and the later goals are tracked separately from this page.
Big Walk Playtime FAQ
- Big Walk는 얼마나 긴가요?
- 첫 번째 엔딩까지 약 10~15시간을 계획하세요. 엔딩을 본 일행은 대략 9~12시간이었고, 인원이 많거나 탐험을 좋아하는 일행은 17시간에 가까워질 수 있어요. 이 범위를 정한 방법
- 친구들과 Big Walk를 끝내는 데 얼마나 걸리나요?
- 일행 규모는 시계보다 경험 자체를 더 크게 바꿔요. 인원이 많으면 탐색을 나눌 수 있지만 다시 모이는 데 더 오래 걸려서, 3인 일행 두 팀의 기록이 3시간 차이가 날 수 있어요. 플레이어 수와 플레이 시간
- 10~15시간이 공식 플레이 타임인가요?
- 아니요. 개발사는 게임에 엔딩이 있고 여러 세션에 걸쳐 즐기도록 설계되었다고 확인했지만, 고정된 플레이 타임은 공개하지 않았어요. 이 범위는 엔딩을 본 기록에서 뽑은 계획용 추정치예요. 수치의 출처
- 2명이서 Big Walk를 하면 얼마나 걸리나요?
- 2인 설정의 시간은 공개된 바 없고, 자동으로 가장 빠른 것도 아니에요. 둘이서는 더 큰 일행처럼 동시에 탐색할 수 없어서, 의견을 맞추기 쉽다는 장점이 일부 상쇄돼요. 인원수별 비교
- 인원이 많으면 Big Walk가 더 오래 걸리나요?
- 정해진 규칙은 없어요. 인원이 많은 일행은 더 빨리 넓은 곳을 훑지만 다시 모이고 의견을 맞추는 데 더 오래 걸려서, 두 효과가 예측 가능하게 쌓이는 게 아니라 서로 맞서요. 그룹 인원에 따라 달라지는 점
- 100% 완성에는 얼마나 걸리나요?
- 첫 번째 엔딩보다 오래 걸리고, 그 차이는 일행이 가는 길에 얼마나 끝내 놨는지에 따라 달라요. 커뮤니티 수치는 대개 10시간대 후반이지만, 고정된 100% 소요 시간은 공개되지 않았어요. 100% 트래커 열기
- Big Walk를 하룻밤에 끝낼 수 있나요?
- 마라톤처럼 해야만 가능해요. 가장 빨리 끝낸 일행도 약 9시간이 걸렸으니, 대부분의 일행은 긴 한 번보다는 여러 날 저녁으로 계획하는 게 좋아요. 세션 계획하기
- Big Walk는 세션 사이에 저장되나요?
- 네. 호스트가 여정을 자동으로 저장하고, 다음 세션은 일행이 멈춘 곳에서 이어지니까 밤에 멈춰도 손해가 없어요. 호스팅과 저장
- 매번 같은 플레이어가 돌아와야 하나요?
- 저장된 여정은 호스트의 것이라서 이어지는 기준점은 호스트예요. 호스트만 있으면 나머지 사람은 세션마다 바뀌어도 괜찮아요. 저장 데이터는 누가 갖고 있나
- Big Walk를 끝내면 어떻게 되나요?
- 같은 저장 데이터가 크레딧에서 멈추지 않고 엔딩 이후 콘텐츠로 이어지며, 이후 목표는 본편 여정과 별도로 추적돼요. 엔딩 후 루트
Finished-run figures last checked on 1 October 2026.