Lethal Company’s new arachnophobia mode is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a PC game

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In , the entire goal of the game is to find high-value items to sell back to The Company to meet the quota and save their own lives. Scrap items in can't be purchased and are found at varying rarities on the game's moons. While the vast majority of scrap items the party will find will simply be sold without a second thought, not all of the items are created equal, with some even possessing unique functionalities.

There are many monsters and threats in , but Jeb, the tentacle monster, is one of the easiest ones to escape if you and your team are careful. This Eldritch horror is responsible for your squad's paychecks as you risk life and limb exploration. However, Jeb is just as capable of ruthlessly killing you when anyone accidentally makes the creature angry because of their greed.

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Video games love spiders but arachnophobes obviously don't, and we've seen an increasing number of studios attempting to find a comfortable middle ground — usually an adorable, blobby middle ground — for all involved in recent times. Enter developer Zeekerss, which has now taken its own delightfully literal approach to solving the ongoing spider problem in its smash-hit co-op horror Lethal Company.

Spiders are a popular video game enemy that have the unfortunate side effect of triggering arachnophobia, a common fear. What’s a developer to do if their creative vision requires a big scary spider, but they don’t want to make their game unplayable to those who can’t stand the eight-legged little guys? Arachnophobia modes are not unprecedented; Grounded includes a whole slider that makes spiders increasingly less spider-y. But Lethal Company’s new arachnophobia mode offers an elegant solution that is making players marvel at the ingenuity.