be crazy are great, but not everyone is necessarily a fan of the crawling creatures. Nevertheless, or perhaps because of this, the eight-legged creatures are among the most popular opponents in video games that we deal with. For example in Hogwarts Legacy, which is teeming with spiders.
For example, Fritz has already complained in his video review of the Harry Potter role-playing game that the developers meant it a little too well with the eight-legged friends – and he doesn’t even suffer from a fear of spiders. So how must people with real arachnophobia feel? By the way, you can find our GameStar test in text form here:
Hogwarts Legacy
The perfect Harry Potter game – just not (yet) on PC
Instead of spiders against… dice?
Fortunately, a first mod can already help here, because Hogwarts Legacy (unfortunately) does not offer a dedicated arachnophobia mode, as does Obsidian’s survival adventure Grounded, for example. modders Norwegian PL has made a mod available for free download on NexusMods that can help.
What does the mod do exactly? NorskPL ensures that all spiders in Hogwarts Legacy are replaced by cubes, which you can still pop different magic around the non-existent ears. Yes, dice. The modder asks for your understanding in this regard, as this is his first mod in this area.
That’s why NorskPL is also looking for feedback from users of its mod in the section Bugs
(hehe) rely on NexusMods should they encounter any problems or obstacles while playing with Arachnophobia Mode. By the way, you can see how the mod for Hogwarts Legacy looks in action in the following video preview:
link to YouTube content
Should we just be thinking of Eidos Montreal’s Guardians of the Galaxy game, in which alien cubes are part of recurring enemies? By the way, to use the mod you just have to have an account with NexusMods, download the files, unzip them and throw them into your games folder. If you run into problems, NorskPL even has one Video-Tutorial ready. You come to the mod itself with this link
The most important information about Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Legacy is after a first Early Access phase since February 10, 2023 available for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. You can find out how good the Harry Potter role-playing game ultimately turned out in our detailed GameStar test. By the way, on Steam, the number of players and the positive feedback from users are going through the roof.
Nevertheless, technical problems can always occur on the PC, whereby our tuning guide or even a particularly curious trick can help. You can find an overview of all our guides, tips and tricks for Hogwarts Legacy in the following overview:
Hogwarts Legacy
All our tips on puzzles, collecting tasks and technology
What do you think of the excessive amount of spiders in Hogwarts Legacy: Too Much? Too little? Or just right? Also, let us know in the comments if developers in general should be more considerate of players with arachnophobia – like the studio behind Grounded Insomniac Games has shown.