Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Will Support Those With A Fear Of Spiders

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Everyone--even people with crippling phobias--should be able to enjoy video games. That’s why it’s becoming more and more common for developers to offer accessibility options that cater to specific fears.

Perhaps the most common fear is that of spiders. Unfortunately, not everyone appreciates our eight-legged friends, so to bring arachnophobes into Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn is offering a special mode just for them.

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As reported by the Daily Jedi Survivor Twitter account and verified by IGN, Jedi Survivor "will feature the ability to toggle an arachnophobia option in accessibility settings to remove spiders from the game entirely." While we’re not sure if the Wyyyschokk from Jedi Fallen Order will return in Survivor, we have it on good authority that there will be at least one spider-like enemy facing Cal Kestis. And since it’s spiders we’re talking about here, probably way more than just one will be on screen at a time.

We don't know exactly how Respawn will implement arachnophobia mode in Jedi Survivor. It could be like Grounded with its escalating series of options that remove more and more detail from spiders until you're just left with a floating sphere. That makes it awfully difficult to see the spider's attacks since they're often coming from one of its eight invisible legs.

Or it could be like Satisfactory's arachnophobia mode which replaces all on-screen spiders with images of cats. That'd probably ruin the whole Star Wars vibe that Jedi Survivor is going for, but maybe instead of cats, the game replaces those spiders with Ewoks?

Or we could go down the route that many arachnophobia mods go and just replace the spiders with a