Big Walk Megaphone

The megaphone appears in House House’s own feature list, in the “Tools and Toys” line, alongside walkie-talkies, laser pointers, binoculars and flares. The context that line sits in is the game’s stated purpose for these items: you “stay in contact using an assortment of tools and toys” while finding your way around an open world at your own pace.

That places the megaphone in the range category — a tool for being heard by someone who is too far away to hear you unaided.

Confirmed by first-party material:

• It exists as a carried tool — press kit “Tools and Toys” feature line.
• It belongs to the staying-in-contact set, alongside walkie-talkies, laser pointers, binoculars and flares.
• It operates inside a spatial audio system. Steam lists Big Walk with Stereo Sound, and House House describe voices fading with distance, echoing down corridors and muffling through walls — anything that produces sound in this game is subject to that geometry.

Not published, despite being widely stated elsewhere:

• Amplification radius or any distance figure.
• Whether the effect is directional (a cone) or omnidirectional.
• Battery, charge or consumption model.
• Whether it interacts with the corridor echo and wall muffling applied to unaided voice.
• Whether text chat travels through it the way it travels through a walkie-talkie.

That last one matters more than it looks. House House explicitly confirm text chat works “with in-game items like walkie talkies” — they name the walkie-talkie and no other item. Whether a text player gains anything from a megaphone is genuinely unknown. Big Walk’s proximity system is documented at the level of “voices fade across distances, echo down corridors, muffle through walls, and crackle through walkie-talkies,” and the walkie-talkie is the only tool named in that sentence.

The bar above shows the shape of the system as House House describe it, with the megaphone placed between unaided voice and a radio. That placement is inference from the tool’s real-world function and its listing among contact tools, not a published figure — treat the walkie-talkie and wall rows as documented and the megaphone row as an ordering, not a measurement.

The one structural difference that follows from what is confirmed: a walkie-talkie is a two-way link between people who both have one, and House House confirm text chat travels through it. A megaphone is a projection tool — it makes you louder in the world rather than opening a channel.

For a group, that suggests different jobs. A radio is what you give to the person going somewhere. A megaphone is what you use when you need to reach people who are not carrying anything, or when you do not know exactly where they are.

Both are guesses about usage, not about mechanics. If you want the part of this page that is certain: House House named the megaphone as a tool for staying in contact, and that is the extent of the official record as of 5 August 2026.