Spiders are a popular and common video game enemy that comes with the unfortunate side effect of triggering arachnophobia, a common fear. The same happened with developer Zeekerss’ cooperative horror title Lethal Company. To solve the issue the devs introduced an arachnophobia mode as part of its latest Frosty Update and fans find it hilarious.
When faced with the arachnophobia issue, several devs in the past have taken the route of changing the eight-legged creature to something entirely different. However, it seems like Zeekerss‘ creative vision really required the big scary spiders and hence they came up with a unique solution by making the spider enemies a little less scary.
Lethal Company’s Arachnophobia mode
Lethal Company’s Arachnophobia mode allows players to now replace the infamous Bunker Spiders’ eight-legged form with the word “spider” written in 3D. When the spider is killed, the letters simply turn upside down, to indicate the newly dead nature of the alphabet-based foe.
It is indeed an interesting and clever take on the issue, instead of replacing the spiders with orbs, or removing them entirely. The devs choosing to replace the spiders with the word “spider,” instead of using any other model was an innovative move since now the players know exactly what they’re looking at.
Lethal Company launched its early access phase on October 23, 2023 taking the entire horror gaming community by storm. Several users praised the spooky gameplay loop and proximity voice chat. On the other hand, there was a set of users with the Spider-phobia who avoided the game due to the presence of the creatures in the game. However, it seems like the latest update solves their problem,
Fans react to Lethal Company’s Arachnophobia Mode
Users were naturally impressed by the Zeekerss approach. The internet was flooded with people sharing their views on how this was a hilarious change in Lethal Company.
A user named ‘KILLCH0PDELUXE’ wrote, “lethal company making a “arachnophobia mode” that just turns the spider into the WORD spider is the funniest sh*t ive seen from this game f**kk.” Another user ‘koyo’ wrote, “Arachnophobia mode is the best thing”
lethal making a “arachnophobia mode” that just turns the spider into the WORD spider is the funniest shit ive seen from this game fuckk pic.twitter.com/ddA3ZdNLSb
— kris / oliver – check pinned (@KILLCH0PDELUXE) December 10, 2023
Another user named ‘thatACNHkid’ elaborated, “They still have all of the spider physics too so they flip upside down when they die hahahahah.”
Notably, the arachnophobia mode is not something new. Several other games such as Hogwarts Legacy, Grounded, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor have added arachnophobia toggles that allow players to alter the character models of spider-like foes to make them look less menacing, or remove them altogether.
Zeeker’s is the latest entrant to join the arachnophobia mode craze that reportedly started in 2023, replacing spiders with something less terrifying.