All 12 achievements, and how rare each one is

What 13 days did to this curve

Our reading of the figures above, not something a source told us.

We first recorded these on 6 Aug, two days after release, and the curve was brutal: 78.0% had crossed the drawbridge, 4.9% had reached the highest point, and the bottom four sat at or below 0.4%. We wrote at the time that every one of those numbers would climb, and that a rare achievement then was not necessarily a hard one. That was a prediction, and it was dated, so it can be checked.

It held. Every figure has risen at every reading since, and the ones at the bottom rose hardest. Big Makeover went from 0.1% to 4.5%, roughly 45 times what it was.

The interesting part is what happened next

A simple “everything goes up” story would have been unremarkable. What the later readings show is that the top and the bottom of the list have come apart.

The front has stopped moving. Crossing the drawbridge went from 78.0% to 85.7% in the first four days, and has gained only 0.8 points in the 9 days since. Nearly everyone who is ever going to start the game has started it.

The tail is still filling in. Big Game has multiplied roughly 3.8× over that same later stretch. The people still moving through the game are the ones who kept a group together past the first evening.

So the early curve was largely measuring elapsed time, not difficulty, and we can now say that with a series rather than an assertion. It is worth saying plainly, because launch-week rarity screenshots circulate as if they said something about how hard a game is, and mostly they do not.

A small thing that only a series can show: Big Ride and Big Help swapped places between 13 Aug and 19 Aug. Any single snapshot would have printed one of those orders as if it were the fact.

What survived the correction

One thing held all the way through. The steepest fall is still at the front: 86.5% cross the drawbridge, but only 59.2% go on to visit the map. That gap has narrowed without closing, and it sits exactly where the opening area hands you the rest of the world.

Our reading of why has not changed. Big Walk makes continuing unusually expensive: you cannot play alone, there is no matchmaking to replace a missing friend, and the save lives with whoever hosted. Getting further means the same people getting back together on another evening, so the drop measures scheduling at least as much as it measures skill.

Every reading is kept here rather than quietly overwritten. If we only showed you today's number you would have no way to judge how much weight it deserves.

The two hidden ones

Big Goodbye and Big Game have no published descriptions, and they sit near the bottom of the table. On Steam, hiding a description is the usual way to avoid spoiling late-game or ending-related content. That is a convention, though, not a statement from House House, and we are not going to tell you what they require when we do not know.

On PlayStation

Launch-week coverage reports a thirteen-trophy list on PlayStation 5: the same twelve, plus a platinum awarded for earning the rest. Adding a platinum is standard PlayStation practice, but we have not confirmed this against an official Sony listing, so treat it as reported rather than established.

Common questions

How many achievements does Big Walk have?

Big Walk has 12 achievements on Steam. Two of them are hidden, meaning Steam shows their names but withholds their descriptions.

What are the hidden achievements in Big Walk?

The two hidden achievements are named Big Goodbye and Big Game. Steam does not publish what they require, and they are among the least common in the list.

What is the rarest Big Walk achievement?

Big Game is the rarest at 2.3% of Steam owners, read on 19 Aug. Treat any single rarity figure with caution: across 13 days of readings on this page, that figure has risen every time we have looked.

Is a rare Big Walk achievement a hard one?

Not necessarily, and the data on this page argues against it. Between 6 Aug and 19 Aug the rarest achievements rose fastest while the first one flattened out. Early rarity mostly measures how far people have got, not how difficult something is.

Does Big Walk have a platinum trophy on PS5?

Launch-week coverage reports a thirteen-trophy PlayStation list: the twelve Steam achievements plus a platinum. This has not been confirmed against an official Sony listing.