Grounded, that weird survival game from Obsidian where you play as kids shrunk down to the size of ants, is out in early access today.

Grounded is almost here. In one hour, the new survival game that combines the plot of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids with gathering resources to build a tiny mansion made out of grass and twigs will arrive on Steam Early Access allowing us all to experience the joys, trials, and tribulations of being smaller than a bug.

We’ve seen a lot of Grounded in recent months, with the Xbox Games Showcase portraying what we can expect in the game. That being the usual trappings of a survival game, such as exploration, resource acquisition, and combat against honestly deadly enemies. Mostly spiders, from the looks of it, but there might be other angry insects that we’ll have to avoid.

With spiders seemingly as the main antagonists of Grounded, that might cause problems for players with an extreme case of arachnophobia. But don’t worry; Obsidian has got you covered.

In a recent blog post, Obsidian detailed many of Grounded’s accessibility features. One of those features is aimed squarely at arachnophobes who can’t bring themselves to play a game where they have to slay a spider the size of a Volkswagen (relatively speaking).

It’s called Arachnophobia Safe Mode, and it basically adjusts the spiders to be less spidery until arachnophobes can deal with it. At level 1, spiders are completely unchanged and are as accurate as the slightly cartoonish graphics will allow them to be to real-life spiders. And level 2, the eight-legged nature of spiders is reduced by half to just four legs, and at level 3, spiders have no legs at all and are just floating thoraxes and abdomens.

Go all the way to level 6 and spiders have no legs, no textures, and are basically just floating balls with two red orbs for eyes. Which, frankly, is sort of scarier than an actual spider when you think about it. Imagine this hyper-realistic world with giant bugs and blades of grass, and then you get murdered by this textureless floating ball.

If you’re not an arachnophobe, Grounded also has a selection of accessibility features, including colorblind mode, large text, read to me mode, subtitles, text to speech, and speech to text modes.

Expect at least a few of the non-insect bugs as Grounded heads into early access, but also expect the game to improve over time too.

Source: Steam