Warning– This item includes spiders. Many spiders.
Obsidian’s Honey I Shrunk Grounded Kids Survival Game is out now, and players, uncomfortable seeing their huge enemy spiders, have quickly experimented with their arachnophobia mode.
This option, found within the game settings, can be activated at any time and increased by five levels until you find a spider setting that you are comfortable with.
The goal is not to make the game easier: spider enemies will always be present and difficult to defeat. Instead, the option modifies their visual appearance to remove their slim, furry little legs and then lock their bodies until they no longer have the appearance of a spider.
Bertie is playing Grounded right now, and he bravely took these images of what happens as Grounded’s anti-spider filter slowly increases:
Here’s a look at Bertie who encounters (and dies) with spiders using different arachnophobia mode settings:
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Grounded is not the first game to offer an arachnophobia setting. Last year, the Goat Simulator Coffee Stain studio added one to Satisfactory that hid spiders behind cat images.
To play even more on the ground, here is the Eurogamer video team frightened by spiders for a couple of hours of multiplayer gameplay:
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