One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis

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The island in co-op walking simulator Big Walk is home to lots of puzzles, and those puzzles can't be completed by a single player. This is a co-op game in the truest sense of the word: you can't get anywhere alone.

Some puzzles involve flipping switches in unison, others require communicating over long distances or through sound-proof glass, some need one player to describe a sequence of symbols only they can see to their teammates, who then have to replicate the sequence somewhere else. Solving a puzzle releases a prize, an object that can be used to explore further into the world and access more puzzles.

But the most vexing puzzle in Big Walk isn't really a puzzle, strictly. It's got a prize: you can see it immediately when you find the puzzle. But to solve it, you don't really have to do anything. And that's what's so devious about it.

PLEASE NOTE: SPOILERS BELOW!!!

This puzzle we came across about six hours into Big Walk doesn't look particularly dastardly. It's just a small room with a door, a couple of windows, a couch and a chair, and a table where the prize sits, waiting to be unlocked.

Hanging on the wall is what appears to be a large dig...

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