Lethal Company has just solved arachnophobia with words, literally

As a certified arachnophobe, it pains me how many games insist on including a creature that absolutely should not have that many legs. Thankfully, a handful of games have started to implement an arachnophobia mode over the years. You’ve got Grounded’s shiny round blobs, Kill it with Fire’s cartoonish balled-up arachnids and Webbed’s decision to reduce its spider protagonist down to a purple sphere. 

Perhaps my favourite attempt at an arachnophobia to date, though, is the way Lethal Company has handled censoring these terrifying critters. While most other games have steered towards nixing their legs and turning them into cute little round beings, developer Zeekerss has taken a slightly different approach. By that I mean it’s gotten rid of the spiders all together, instead replacing them with 3D text reading “spider” floating around the world like some kind of missing model glitch It came as part of the game’s Patch 45 on December 9, which also included notes like “Rail cheese has been nearly destroyed, but the forest giant is easier to avoid.”