How Big Walk Saves, Hosting Works, and Who Keeps Progress
Choose a reliable Big Walk host and avoid losing access to group progress.
Direct answer
Big Walk saves automatically, and the host is the keeper of that save. The same host must start future sessions if the group wants to continue the same journey. If the host leaves, the live session ends for everyone.
Do these in order
Shortest reliable path
Choose the long-term host
Pick the person most likely to attend future sessions and keep access to the same platform account and device save.
Let the host start first
Other players connect only after the host opens the saved journey.
Expect automatic saving
Players do not need a manual save step according to the official FAQ.
Keep group expectations clear
A different person can host a separate journey, but that does not transfer the original host's progress.
Protect the host's platform save
Use the platform's normal account and cloud-save safeguards where available; Big Walk does not document a host-transfer feature.
Sources checked
Where these steps come from
- officialOfficial Big Walk FAQ
- platformSteam store: Steam Cloud support
- platformPlayStation store
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