Big Walk Trophy Guide: Full List & How to Unlock

A big walk trophy guide answers one question above all: how do you unlock every single trophy in this cooperative island adventure? The short version is that most trophies come naturally as you and your friends explore, complete the four main towers, and finish the game — with a handful of equipment and multiplayer trophies to grab along the way, plus a true ending that cleans up the rest.

Overview of the Trophy Set

Big Walk is a cooperative adventure where you play as small bird-like creatures exploring a strange island and solving puzzles together. PSNProfiles lists 13 trophies on PS5, worth 1,260 points in total, including the platinum trophy Big Trophy. IGN's wiki separately describes the achievement list as 12 trophies/achievements, which lines up with the PSNProfiles breakdown once the platinum is counted separately.

The set splits cleanly into three groups:

• Story trophies — earned by progressing through the towers and finishing the game.
• Equipment trophies — wearing a backpack and a hip pouch, both flagged as online/multiplayer only.
• Optional challenge trophies — reaching the highest point, getting shiny, and the true-ending cleanup.

Difficulty is rated around 3/10, and a full run is estimated at roughly 15 hours if played naturally. Most trophies unlock organically, so the recommended approach is to play the game blind with your friends rather than chasing them one by one.

Roadmap: How to Earn Every Trophy

Stage 1 — First Ending and Miscellaneous Trophies

This stage covers about 90% of the game. You and your friends explore freely, solve puzzles, and fill in all of the island's main towers. A majority of the trophies unlock naturally here just by playing.

The key advice is to equip both a hip pouch and a backpack early, and to complete enough puzzles to finish all of the main towers. Once the towers are done, head to the large square in the green wall, solve some straightforward puzzles in the giant black circle, and you will finish the game and close out Stage 1.

Stage 2 — The True Ending

After the first ending, re-enter the world with your friend. The map room now shows 7 additional purple puzzles on what was previously an empty southern mountain range. You need to beat these harder revamped puzzles plus any red puzzles you missed to reach the true ending.

The bulbs you collect are taken to a special room reachable via an unlockable path to the left of the map room. Inside, a green structure leads to a room with 15 slots for bulbs. Turn in everything and you receive a key that leads to the true ending. This is also the stage where you clean up anything you missed earlier.

Story Trophies (Single Playthrough)

These trophies are tied to the main progression and are earned in roughly this order:

The tutorial in Big Walk introduces core mechanics: hold a button while a friend grabs something, press buttons at the same time, pick up a friend so they can reach a button, and solve a tile puzzle that requires communicating the correct order. Finishing these and placing the pieces in the castle-like structure gives you the key to the bridge.

Big Wall is the pivot point. After all four main towers are done, climb the giant black tower; one player gets a scary vision and you learn you need 6 more red bulbs for the black key. Take that key to the giant box along the green wall, hold some buttons, and reach the black sphere. Big Goodbye follows quickly: the sphere is a tower of simple back-to-back puzzles, and after destroying another giant red thing you leave through a huge arch.

Multiplayer-Only and Equipment Trophies

Several trophies are flagged as online required and multiplayer only, meaning you need at least one friend:

• Big Pack (Silver) — Wear a backpack. The earliest one sits inside a blue spiral near the Red Tower; once a friend puts it on you, the trophy unlocks (48.14% Uncommon).
• Big Help (Silver) — Wear something on your hip. A hip pouch hangs inside a blue spiral behind a puzzle the train naturally leads you to; you and your friend each put one on the other (31.38% Uncommon).
• Big Climb (Gold) — Reach the highest point. After the Green Tower turns on the ski lift, ride it toward the tall mountain, jump off, follow the path up, and get under the large antenna (27.83% Uncommon).
• Big Makeover (Gold) — Get shiny. After the Yellow Tower unlocks the tunnels, enter near the Blue Tower and follow the tunnel route down to a color-changing station; paint your friends and have them paint you (14.69% Rare).
• Big Game (Gold) — Completely finish the game. This is the post-game trophy: complete every remaining puzzle plus all the new purple ones, then use the final key to enter the ending room and the all-white final section (9.42% Very Rare).

Core Tips to Save Time

Autopop and Joining a Finished World

Big Walk does not have traditional autopop, but you can unlock many trophies by joining a world where everything is already done. Trophies tied to transportation (chairlift, train, tunnel, climb) unlock by experiencing each one once. Both endings can be unlocked by entering their already-unlocked areas and watching the cutscenes. Doing this can cut a full playthrough from 10+ hours down to about 1 hour.

Navigation and Finding Missing Puzzles

Near the end you may be missing a few basic red bulb puzzles, which can be hard to spot on your own. Two tools help: the map room (unlocked by completing the Red Tower) shows a model of the island, and the TV near the Green Tower displays your live coordinates. Strap the TV onto a friend's backpack, then cross-reference the map model with the paper map. Note which red bulbs lack a flag, and use the coordinates along the map's edges (left/right for the Y axis, top/bottom for the X axis) to locate missing puzzles in order.

Play as Intended or "Cheat"

The game politely asks you to use the in-game voice chat, which makes communication "harder" but much more fun. If you only care about trophies, you can coordinate over Discord or talk directly with friends. For the experience the developers intended, at least try the in-game microphones.

Because the world is open, you and your friends will almost certainly complete puzzles in a different order than anyone else — and there is no "wrong" path. Focus on finishing the four towers, equipping your hip pouch and backpack, and enjoying the walk with your friends, and the platinum will follow.