Kotaku just dropped the ultimate compliment for House House's Big Walk: its tutorial playground is straight-up the most fun onboarding they've seen in years. Forget dry walls of text and pop-up hell — this hiking sim turns learning controls into a full-on toy room brawl with friends, complete with light-up orbs, slide-down jungle gyms, and those obnoxious cowbells you can yoink and shake forever.

The piece walks through the whole chaotic setup: you spawn, wander a playground tunnel, mess with sprint/jump/crouch signs, kick glowing balls, flip light switches, and eventually grab the cowbells while your squad yells across the room. No forced gates or condescending narrators — just pure "goofin' around" that teaches you the exact mechanics you'll use on the actual hike. And yeah, you can even take the cowbells with you when you exit.

Big Walk's co-op focus makes the tutorial pop even harder since everyone's discovering it together in real time. It's the kind of onboarding that makes you forget you're in a tutorial at all, and the community on X is already vibing with the "getting lost with friends" energy the game nails. House House cooked with this one — proof that sometimes the best teacher is just letting players cause mayhem.