History GiantSpider / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'': Leto's God Power, ''Spider Lair'', lets you plant some spider cocoons into the ground. If they are not destroyed within some seconds, they turn into web-traps and each of them houses a spider big enough to drag a human-sized unit into the ground and one-hit it.
* ''VideoGame/AlienSoldier'' had "Back Stringer". You fight this bugger on the previous MiniBoss, a [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant moth]] that had recently become its dinner. Worst part was that destructible baby spiders would appear every now and then to ''[[BossArenaUrgency pull down]]'' the "platform" you were on, and would cause you to fall into a {{Bottomless Pit|s}} if they succeeded.
* ''VideoGame/Alundra2'': One of the bosses is a giant robot spider.
* ''VideoGame/AncientEmpires'': Spiders are a unit type. They're [[LightningBruiser stronger, tougher and faster than the basic Soldier]], and their attack poisons their target (inflicting a debuff that lowers stats for several turns). They first show up in the middle of a forest and are referred to as forest spiders, suggesting that this is their original habitat.
* ''VideoGame/{{Arcanum}}'' has a vast variety of spiders. They are all poisonous and range in size from human hand to roughly three meters ''in height'' to even larger... em, [[HalfHumanHybrid spidercentauresses]], who wield longbows and can conjure poisonous vapors. Some species of "ordinary" spiders also can ''summon zombies'', and other species shoot fireballs (which can be extremely annoying as those eight-legged freaks can and will [[MooksAteMyEquipment destroy your equipment]]).
%%* ''VideoGame/AssaultRetribution'': One of the recurring enemy types, befitting a game set in a BugWar.
* ''VisualNovel/AtlachNacha'', an obscure H-game where you play a shapeshifting spider demon (a Jorougumo to be precise, see Mythology above) in high school.
* The cavern of trials in ''VideoGame/AvencastRiseOfTheMage'' has a Spider Queen, complete with periodic additional mobs.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has huge spiders, giant spiders, astral spiders and sword spiders in Cloakwood and a few other areas. The astral spiders can teleport at will and like to sneak up on your casters, and the sword spiders are crazy fast and pack quite a punch. The sequel lets you summon them with a spell, and they're considered one of the best summons in the early game.
* UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}} themed RPG ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' features deadly B-Ball spiders, which have heads and bodies made out of giant basketballs. Their bites can inflict glaucoma on your characters.
* Giant Spider in ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'' is a level 3 unit with powerful and poisonous melee bite attack and annoying slowing ranged web attack. They are sometimes found in cavern scenarios in campaigns.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' and ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' feature Phantasmaraneae, absolutely humongous fire-breathing spiders that live near magma flows deep in Inferno. The title character summons one (and by extension its many offspring), and despite their ferocious appearance, they are known for being curious and rewarding to those who are respectful. [[spoiler: However, in the second game, the imbalance affecting the worlds causes them to go berserk, and one serves as a mini-boss.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/BigFunInFurbyland'' minigame ''Furby to the Rescue'', the Furby is chased in a maze by a big, purple spider that traps it in a web temporarily, making the player lost precious time to find the exit.
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has numerous giant spiders, mostly added on in the Wrath of the Lamb DLC. Widow, a fleshy spidery mass that has human toes at the end of her legs, is [[ThatOneBoss a frequent bane of early games]]. An upgraded, undead version named The Wretched can be encountered further down. Also, Daddy Long Legs and the Triarachnid fit the description nicely.
* The freeware fighting game ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'' features a {{Stripperiffic}} [[CuteMonsterGirl Hot Monster Babe]] by the name of Ananzi who can transform into a spider and devour her opponents.

* The second episode of ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' ends with an encounter with a giant spider named Shial, who is the mother of all the smaller, more annoying spiders that show up in the rest of the episode.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' features the Nightmare Apostles, [[SpiderSwarm hordes of spiders]] which chases you throughout their home once they spotted you. The red variant summoned by [[EnemySummoner Chime Maiden]] are far worse, they can detect you ''without'' seeing you, catching most people off guard when they are idling.
* ''VideoGame/Bomberman64'' has Mantis, a giant ice spider, for a boss that proves to be [[ThatOneBoss quite a handful]].
* ''VideoGame/BornUnderTheRain'': {{Spiders|AreScary}} are a possible enemy, as seen in an [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7360/images/55009/ official screenshot]], and they'd have to be big, to pose a significant threat to human-sized beings.
* ''VideoGame/BraveHeroYuusha'': Antrachnid, a giant red spider as an enemy in the Desert area.
* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', you have to travel to the center of a huge spider den and kill a queen spider (the Metal Queen) to get strings for Kill-Master. Naturally, the place is infested with giant spiders.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' video games have small ones that are dog-sized, and large ones that are Buffy-sized. They're quick, run along the walls and ceilings, knock Buffy down in one hit before jumping on top to bite (a killing move if she can't fend them off) and realistic enough to be rather unsettling.
* [[BigBad Queen Cadavra]], the fat and obnoxious black widow spider in ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!''. At least in proportion. She's at least two times the size of Bug.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}}'': A Macintosh computer game has spiders in levels four and five, they may not be giant ones but they look as ugly and scary as hell, thankfully they only attack Rollie [=McFly=] (the pill bug you control) by trapping him in a balled web and jumping up and down on him rather than seeing him horrifically torn to shreds and eaten, still doesn't make the spiders any less scary and ugly the way they look in the game especially since Bugdom excels in having great graphics.
* A giant spider living in Snakemouth Den is the first boss the main party encounters in ''VideoGame/BugFables''. However, it's only in proportion, as the main characters are insects, so for a human it would be normal-sized.
** Another example is Peacock Spider, one of the [[BonusBoss Bounties]] that terrorizes Bugaria by luring the travelers with enthralling music on its island to devour them.
* The [[EvilSorceror Evil Wizard]], final boss of ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', turns into a giant spidery abomination as his fourth phase [[MarathonBoss (of six)]]. He gets some additional creepy points for fooling you into thinking he's dead right before this phase: a huge chest falls down on him and seems to squish him, like most bosses in this game when they die. So you walk up to the chest, it opens and the giant spidery abomination pops out... Rather eerie if you're seeing it for the first time.

* ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'' features them prominently as enemies. There are ''two'' different types of giant spiders as regular mooks, each complete with UndergroundMonkey variants, a third type that serves as a [[WolfpackBoss Wolfpack]] MiniBoss, and a particularly huge one is a boss.
* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', Giant Spiders take the form of psychic women who undergo massive surgery and augmentation to be installed in a robotic spider body. Most of them don't seem to mind though.
-->'''Becky''': [[ValleyGirl All the other Fortunatas were all TOTALLY like 'Tarantula Program? Eeew!' And then they were like, 'Like, what are you thinking, Becky?' And I was totally like 'I'll get to meet all kinds of interesting people and stuff.']]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Colobot}}'', giant spiders are one of the enemy alien lifeforms you can encounter. When they spot the player's units, they will charge at them and explode on contact.
* ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' has Drudge Invaders, four-legged tank-sized [[BigCreepyCrawlies creepie crawlies]] that launch flying bugs.
* The player-monster Arachnis in ''VideoGame/CrushCrumbleAndChomp'' is a Kaiju-sized spider, like Kumonga, who can leave a trail of web behind.
* ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' requires you to fight one for one of the endings. [[spoiler: You get a rather neat ending if you beat this spider, and a rather depressing one if you lose.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', these show up in packs in potentially any dungeon, taking the form of dog-sized spiders. They take on two types: Spitters and Webbers. the former shoot poisoned spit at the party, inflicting [[DamageOverTime blight effects]] on their targets. The latter will spray webbing over their targets, inflicting a Stun status effect and marking the victim, mimicking them being [[AllWebbedUp covered in webs.]] While Marked, the Spitters will target that party member exclusively, and deal greatly increased damage. Combined with their high speed and Dodge stats, these packs of spiders can potentially kill an unlucky hero in a single turn.
* ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' often features gigantic spiders as obstacles, usually associated with a certain recurring evil witch. Notable examples include ''Curse of Briar Rose'' (a massive spider in his web blocks a secret passage and you have to burn the web), ''Rise of the Snow Queen'' (the extra game has a large spider dwelling in the cavern marked with the emblem of the spider king and has to be neutralized), ''The Final Cinderella'' (the villain of the extra game is the Spider Witch who can turn into a big spider), ''Goldilocks and the Fallen Star'' (a massive spider is seen grabbing a mummified corpse and dragging it into its lair) and ''The Swan Princess and the Dire Tree'' (a rather realistic-looking gigantic spider partakes into two JumpScare moments when you wander into the swamp).
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' has many of the corrupted daughters of the Witch of Izalith, most notably the early-mid game boss Chaos Witch Quelaag, and her sister, the central figure of the Chaos Servant Covenant. They take the form of colossal arachnids with human female upper bodies and tend to spew lava. Also, they lack mandibles in favour of toothed maws, in the style of Tolkein's spiders.
* Arachnophobes will not enjoy the Brightstone Cove Tseldora in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''. The area is crawling with man-sized spiders that lunge at you incredibly fast, scurry out of cubbyholes in walls, drop from the ceilings to ambush you, and piggyback ride on Hollow meat puppets. Then there's the boss of the area, the Duke's Dear Freja, a gigantic nightmarish abomination that is actually ''two'' giant spiders fused together.
* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' features an entire level filled with oversized arachnids. They range from the table-sized mooks (which can be annoying until you realize you can just have War stomp on them with a melee attack), the car-sized [[EliteMooks Loom Wardens]] (which can be easy enough once you get the Abyssal Chain), the house-sized [[MiniBoss Brood Mother]] (which isn't so hard once you figure out the trick to beating it), and three-story tall Spider Queen Silitha.
* ''VideoGame/DemonFront'' contains giant spiders domesticated by the hostile invaders, who guards the forest base, as well as having turrets built on their sides. They serve as GiantMook-variety of enemies in the game.
* In ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', the Armor Spider is the first boss in the Stonefang Tunnel area. It's a StationaryBoss that shoots web from afar and claw at you at close range. It also breathes fire.

* Several kinds of giant spiders figure prominently as enemies in Act 3 (Kurast) of ''VideoGame/DiabloII''. ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has the Caverns of Araneae, which as the name might suggest are utterly infested with giant spiders. They were bred by Archbishop Lazarus and let loose into some ancient ruins to protect the borders of Khanduras (and because Lazarus is kind of a dick). Giant spiders also show up in Arreat Crater/Hell, as the special minions of Azmodan and Cydaea.
* The race known as the Machaka in ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}} 3'' both have and [[ShapeShifting are capable of becoming]] these.
* ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong Country 3|DixieKongsDoubleTrouble}}'' has Arich the Arachnid. Being the second boss (third in ''Donkey Kong Land 3''), he shoots green orbs and hops around the boss arena. There's also a friendly giant spider named Squitter, who appears in both that game and its predecessor. [[PowerUpMount He lets the Kongs ride on his back]] and can create web projectiles that can either form platforms or attack enemies.
* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' features Minecraft-sized spiders with not-so-high damage. However, they are almost always encountered in pairs, have a bigger tiger-coloured variation, and their nests can house up to a dozen of them. They drop precious silk from their glands, which act like best healing source in the game, encouraging player to scam their nests. The catch: overgrown nests turn into the {{flunky|Boss}} Spider Queen, which is a very tough boss. After her defeat, though, she drops the "Spider hat", effectively negating further spider problems by turning them neutral.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' has the Trites, multilegged, swarming horrors with basketball-sized bodies. It also has the Vagaries, creatures with a woman-like upper body and spidery lower halves. They can use PsychicPowers to toss objects at you and seem to serve as brood mothers to the Trites.
* The hero Broodmother from ''VideoGame/Dota2'' is a giant spider - she covers the map in webs, spawns smaller spiders, and then overwhelms her opponents. If uncountered, she can typically destroy entire teams by herself.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': Giant spiders typically pop up in areas where the Veil is thin, including old ruins, caves, and the Deep Roads. In short, they're ''everywhere.'' In a twist, though, they're referred to simply as "spiders", rather than "giant spiders", because, well, in-universe it's not unusual for them to grow to that size. Anything that ''is'' called a Giant Spider, therefore, is bound to be utterly ''enormous''.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Some spiders have been corrupted by darkspawn blood. Any mage with the Shapeshifter specialization can become these creatures. A Rogue with the Ranger specialization may actually summon one.
** They reappear in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' alongside the Queen Spider, which makes the others look tiny.
** They show up in ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'', too, where they show up as regular giant spiders, poison-spitting spiders, elephant-sized spiders and tiny fear demons that take the form of spiders. [[spoiler: Corypheus' lieutenant, the massive fear demon known as Nightmare, also appears as a mountain-sized spider that can cause the HeroicSacrifice of either Hawke or the Warden Stroud/Loghain/Alistair.]]
*** Like Skyrim and System Shock, fans were so creeped out by the series essentially being Spider Age that mods had been made to replace and remove them, or at least requested in the event the Frostbite engine makes it difficult.
* Giant Spiders in ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' are regular {{Mooks}} you could find in web-covered rooms. Naturally, they could poison you and [[AllWebbedUp throw webs at you]], and the [[AllThereInTheManual art book]] mentions that their size allow them to prey on anything caught in their webs, including humans.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' has quite a few spidery enemies, including [[SpiderPeople Drider]]-esque humanoid-hybrid ones called mucosas (with an annoying habit of shrieking loudly when they attack) and an extra-large giant spider MiniBoss.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dungeons}} II'' has giant spiders as neutral monsters, usually lurking into chambers inside your own Dungeon, ready to be unearthed and usually foreshadowed by the massive chitin-like walls with bulbous yellow eggsacks as you dig closer to the room. The expansion and downloadable maps add a variety of venom-spitting spider and spider lairs that spawn them at will. The [[VideoGame/Dungeons3 sequel]] has, again, giant spiders randomly appearing in certain locations of the Dungeon.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has Giant Cave Spiders, dreaded by many a newbie fortress player, and the bane of all adventurer characters. Veteran fortress players, however, ''adore'' GCS and will spend entire forum threads discussing safe methods of harvesting their valuable silk.
* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce'': The series has giant spiders aplenty that leap around shoot web that entangles and hurts players and their NPC allies.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** The series has various giant spiders as common low to mid-level creature enemies dating all the way back to ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]''. Typical abilities include fast movement speed, relatively strong melee attacks, poison (be it a spell or a natural part of their attack), and webs that paralyze or otherwise slow a target's movement speed.
** Spider Daedra, as their name might imply, are a SpiderPeople form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]]. They have humanoid upper bodies attached to the below the waist to the abdomen, thorax, and legs of a giant spider.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has the Frostbite Spiders, which range from wolf-sized to almost elephant-sized. They also spit venom and tend to drop from the ceiling on top of your head if you're not careful. Cronvangr Cave is a particularly memorable spider-den that has a few so big that they have ''mammoth bones'' wrapped up in their webbing. Some enterprising arachnophobes have created {{Game Mod}}s that remove them from the game for the benefit of their fellow phobics. One early one did a rather clumsy job, replacing their models with [[BearsAreBadNews those of bears]] while changing nothing else about their environment or behavior, resulting in giant poisonous bears that shoot spiderwebs at you. A more popular mod replaced them with ComicBook/SpiderMan. Of special note is the only named spider in Skyrim, Nimhe, who is larger than the giant frostbite spiders. The ''Dragonborn'' DLC adds Albino Spiders, which are still nasty threats despite being only about the size of a grapefruit. One dungeon features a machine that lets you use flaming, icy, or electrified versions of them as weapons.
* ''VideoGame/{{Elvira}} II'': There was a level devoted to horror with an insect theme. Of course it had a Giant Spider. It doesn't get that freaky until it gets RIGHT UP INTO YOUR FACE. It was featured in a Website/YouTube video devoted to the scariest games ever.
* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' has the aptly named Terrorantula. Who is, to put it mildly, [[http://common.allakhazam.com/images/i/d/id3453.png FRAKKIN HUGE!]] It's still around in ''VideoGame/EverQuestII''. To give some impression of the scale involved: That refracted image in the center of the shot? That's a player character. Some of the smaller spiders are almost as tall as her ''horse''.
* ''VideoGame/EvilIslands'': The Haunt Spiders in Suslanger.
* ''VideoGame/EvilTwinCypriensChronicles'' features a giant spider who is actually very friendly.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Exile}}''/''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'' series has several varieties of giant spiders. There are generic giant ones, evil spellcasting ones, and the [[FunWithAcronyms Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]]. They're {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, [[PlanetOfSteves all named Spider]], and so annoying they [[GoMadFromTheRevelation frequently drive people insane]]. "[[CatchPhrase You're cute!]]"
* ''VideoGame/FellowshipOfTheWhiteStar'': The event "Web of Lies" has a creepy cat lady whose pets are cat and dog-sized spiders that act like cats and dogs. Hilariously creepy.
* ''[[VideoGame/TheAddamsFamily Fester's Quest]]'': A giant spider alien appears as a UniqueEnemy.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': The first real boss is Boris, a giant spider-crab hybrid. Its name is actually a reference to a fan favourite Music/TheWho song called "Boris the Spider", so is its special attack "Sticky End" ("He's come to a sticky end / Don't think he will ever mend") and a part of its entry in the bestiary ("Maybe he's as scared as me / Where's he gone now, I can't see").
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'': The [[OneWingedAngel third form]] of the [[BigBad Dark King]] is a giant spider. The fourth form retains the spiderlike body and fangs and the "Spider Kids" attack but replaces the segmented spider legs with CombatTentacles.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' has 2 types of these: Bael and Elder Bael. They usually carry poison. Notable as they have the same Stat {{Cap}}s.
* ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'':
** The game has a RandomEvent where a space station is under attack by these. Your default options are to either send in your crew, which will either result in a small reward or loss of one crew member or play it safe and decline to assist. However, if you have the proper equipment, it is possible to TakeAThirdOption and use risk-free ways of dealing with the spiders, giving you the rewards without worrying about losing crew members.
** The ''[[VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLightMultiverse Multiverse]]'' mod takes this up to eleven, adding an entire new race of spiders (with 4 subtypes) along with their own infested sector to inhabit.
* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame''. "Return to the Sedgewick". The boss of that level is a figurative ''and'' literal BlackWidow.
* ''VideoGame/GryphonKnightEpic'': One of the enemy types you face is spider roughly as big as Sir Oliver.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' has many types of giant spiders in its large bestiary, most of them about human-sized. One dungeon in the fourth chapter, Arachni's Haunt, has the party fighting their way through spider-infested caverns to face the eponymous spider-queen boss at the end. Besides fighting against spiders, Rangers can tame giant spiders to fight beside them (after a fairly difficult quest to reach the tamable ones).
* ''VideoGame/{{Grounded}}'': Technically the spiders are normal-sized and it's [[IncredibleShrinkingMan you whose been shrunken]] but the effect is the same.
* ''VideoGame/{{Gynophobia}}'': When you're [[spoiler:having a nightmare after sniffing your mom's potion]], you encounter spiders the size of dogs.
* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': These are regular enemies. They're still preferable to the small spiders, which are GoddamnedBats.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hytale}}'': A few big spiders appear the first zone, but the Void Spider, a Dungeon Boss ''twice'' the size of a human, certainly takes the cake.
%%* ''[[VideoGame/IceAge Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'': Spiders primarily appear during the cave levels.
* ''VideoGame/TheImmortal'' has one, that like most things in the game, will [[OneHitPointWonder kill you in one web-tangling instant]]. However, even worse are her egg sacks scattering the level. These unleash hordes of baby spiders if you happen to touch them, and... well, [[LetsPlay in the words of]] LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}}, "Why would they INCLUDE something like that?"
* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndHisDesktopAdventures'' has giant spiders as some of the weakest enemies, alongside ScaryScorpions, found in the Amazon jungle and the caverns beneath. They go down quickly and do little damage, and are more mildly annoying than dangerous.
* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': A giant spider will [[JumpScare randomly jump]] onto the camera and [[InterfaceScrew obstruct the player's vision]] during certain fights in the Long Halloween event.
* ''VideoGame/JackieChansActionKungFu'': The FinalBoss turns into a giant spider.
* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangarooRound2'' has those in the form of enemies that descend from the ceiling and have to be quickly hit with a boomerang, or else they'll spit acid at you that somehow homes in on you.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'':
** In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'', Gwydion can get stuck in a spider web and a giant spider will eat him. Solution? Turn to a ''giant'' eagle and toss the spider to the ocean.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride'' has another giant spider that can catch unwary player characters in its web.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'' has Giant Spiders that spit webs and Venomspitters that spit, uh, venom. They occasionally burst out of the ground to ambush you because the game didn't think giant spiders alone were terrifying enough. The Webwood area is crawling with them. Even worse, [[spoiler:the spiders in the Webwood are being controlled by an insane Fae witch called the Widow who wants to reclaim "her" woods by destroying the town that mortals built in the woods while she was sealed]].
* ''VideoGame/TheLastAirbender'' has a few levels where Zuko and Aang have to deal with spider-crabs. Two of the spiders fall under this trope, especially the hive queen.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Elise is a spider-themed champion, who normally appears as a human in ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire, but can also transform into a giant spider with a few smaller spider minions. She's also the leader of spider cult which sacrifices its worshippers to a giant spider that appears in-game as a BonusBoss on the map Twisted Treeline.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryAxe'': The first boss is a massive spider hanging on a cave's ceiling with its web, who will attack you by dropping down periodically and firing its webs on you. This particular spider shows up on most box arts of this game.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'': As Class VII located the mercenaries who attacked the military bases in the Nord Highlands, the mercenaries' employer Gideon uses his flute to summon a colossal spider to get rid of them both.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** While spider enemies have always had bit parts in the ''Zelda'' games, it wasn't until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'''s Skulltula-laden first dungeon and the Queen Gohma that spiders in the series really took off.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' takes this even further with its sixth dungeon, which is packed to bursting with the things, and the boss of course being the biggest of the lot -- Armogohma is ''massive''. And then, when you defeat the giant spider, its body disintegrates and its large, central eye becomes ''another'' spider, surrounded by hundreds of tiny little spiders... and they swarm chaotically around the room...
%%* ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'': Anyone would be forgiven for being terrified having to face [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDIAxsr328 this]].%%Links aren't context.
* ''VideoGame/LetsGoJungle!'': Giant spiders are one of the most common enemies.
* ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'' features a supremely creepy giant spider as one of the game's first main obstacles.
* ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima'': Found in several sizes from the starter dungeon to the mid-game. All of them are bad news due to powerful poison attacks, a stacking web debuff, and the chance to cause sickness that requires a trip to the nearest temple to cure.
* ''VideoGame/{{Madagascar}}'': One of the enemies which appears on Madagascar. They sometimes drop suddenly from above.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' had Bospider in [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the first game]] and Web Spider in [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 the fourth]].
* ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Yakuza]], a giant spider-like monster being replicated by an X Parasite that has Samus's Space Jump and is blocking her path to a backup generator.
* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VI'' has an entire class of monsters dedicated to this. Although they aren't very tough. They get poisonous attacks, though, and they are ''fast''.
* ''VideoGame/MightyAphid'': In addition to all the [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant bug monsters]], [[PlayerCharacter Avery "Aphid" Cavor]] can also encounter spiders that look almost as big as Avery is tall.
* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'': The Demonic Spiders and their variations are huge spiders that hang from the ceiling and that have Mii facial features on their abdomen.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'':
** It has spiders that are about half as tall as the player character. Giant by real-life standards, but one of the smallest monsters in the game. They deal the least damage per hit, but they can strike swiftly and repeatedly, run fast, jump, climb walls, and fit through tight crevices too small for anything else. They have a nasty habit of traveling in groups and hiding on your shelter's roof at night, waiting to pounce when you come outside in the morning. They also have a chance of dropping string, which is needed to craft fishing rods and bows.
** There are also the rarer cave spiders, which are less than half the size of regular spiders. Still, at twenty-eight inches wide, they're unrealistically large, yet small enough to fit through a one-block gap. Unlike their larger counterparts, these ones are poisonous. Their hissing may not be as tongue tearingly-frightening as you know who's, but these meter-and-a-half blocky menaces can still ruin your day. By pushing you off a cliff.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
** In general, arachnoid monsters would fall under the category of "Temnoceran".
*** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4'' has the Nerscylla, a spider the size of van that wears the rubbery hides of Gypceros -- a kind of wyvern that Nerscyllas regularly prey on -- as a cloak. It has both poisonous fangs ''and'' a stinger in its abdomen that puts its victims to sleep.
*** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'': We are introduced to the Rakna Kadaki and her spawn the Rachnoids. Unlike Nerscylla, she's a long-necked spider that's [[PlayingWithFire quite the pyromaniac]]. In terms of fighting style, she's [[ForceAndFinesse the force to Nerscylla's finesse]].
** Baelidae, from ''Monster Hunter Online''. While Nerscylla is in its own Monster class called Temnoceran, Baelidae is classified as a Carapaceon, which are normally crabs or scorpions. But it looks and the ability to create webs identify it as a spider.
* The Krypt of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' has been turned into an RPG that includes a spider cavern. Yes, they feature as you'll quickly discover in what may be the easiest eighth generation achievement to earn: you are given no warning to them attacking and have to hit the right button as soon as they appear, or they'll attack and you get the terrifying award.
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has "giant spider" as one of the enemies you can run into. They can be a bit dangerous in the early game due to their speed and ability to poison you, but as you grow stronger (and gain poison resistance), they are much easier to defeat.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'', giant spiders are available as animal companions (for druids and rangers) and familiars (for wizards and sorcerers).
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' has a rare example of a friendly giant spider. Your party comes across it in a cave, and it tries to communicate with you by drawing letter in the dirt with its legs. If you befriend it, then later on [[spoiler: when you get Crossroad Keep]], it will show up in the basement and eventually weave a magical spider-silk cloak for you! "XP granted for befriending a giant magical spider!"
* In ''VideoGame/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasThePumpkinKing'', a video game {{Prequel}} to ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the first boss is a huge purple spider. This also occurs in the film's video game sequel ''VideoGame/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasOogiesRevenge'', where one of the bosses is a gigantic arachnid known as the Crypt Creeper Spider.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': Giant spiders infests the underground caves, showing up regularly only in that level. As you finally manage to make your way to the cave's exit, you will have to battle the Spider Queen, a [[KingMook Queen Mook]] boss which is an enlarged version of the giant spider mooks (roughly fifteen times larger than you).
* ''VideoGame/NomolosStormingTheCatsle'': [[PlayerCharacter Nomolos]] encounters spiders almost as big as he is as enemies. They only move back and forth.
* ''VideoGame/NorthernJourney'' features a large variety of large arachnids, from well known clades like jumping spiders and harvestmen to more obscure varieties like pseudoscorpions, spitting spiders and sea spiders.
* ''VideoGame/NotDyingToday'' have larger-than average spiders in the AbsurdlySpaciousSewer stage, and at the end of the level you fight an absoltely massive KingMook spider several times larger than your character.
* ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' has a ''Giant Metal Spider'', which stemmed from a nightmare one of the characters had during development of a nanobot-controlling AI called Ceres. With the use of Ceres' nanobots, you get to explore a recreation of this nightmare inside the titular structure. This spider so large that one of its ''feet'' is almost your height, it has a furnace for a head with its arms and pincers attached to it, and the thing is set inside a massive abandoned factory. The goal is to repair the spider by solving puzzles based around an alternate version of the 4 elements, which gradually bring the machine to life, and when all four are completed [[spoiler: the spider instantly starts smashing everything in its path and proceeds to [[EatenAlive devour you whole]]. Fortunately, thanks to the dream's inverse logic, this doesn't kill you]].
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': The first boss, the Bonus Boss Bandit Spider, and the Block Spider.
* ''VideoGame/OneDogStory'' has [[BigCreepyCrawlies various bugs and insects]] and spiders as big as the PlayerCharacter as enemies.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Jorōgumo appears as a demoness with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a large spider. She is also a LiteralManeater and a MotherOfAThousandYoung who breeds a horde of powerful baby demons and will keep spawning as long as she is not yet defeated.
* ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' has stages in the Cave of the Silken Web where you fight the Spider Queen, and a number of her minions are giant spiders. The first game notably have a KingMook spider large enough to take up half the boss arena, though it's a StationaryBoss who attacks with it's projectiles and claws while half-submerged in a pool. The second game have gigantic spiders larger than regular mooks, but here they're GiantMook enemies rather than bosses.

* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' containers spiders as big as you as generic mooks, with a tendency to crawl out of pits. They use their poisonous fangs or spit projectiles at you, and some of them can create a web to slow you down or hatch spiderlings. You fight a gigantic spider as a mini-boss in Act 2. There's also the Act 7 boss, Arakaali, a goddess in the form of a giant spider.
* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'''s Halloween 2015 event mission Lab Rats sees the players shrunken down and placed on the meth table from the regular Rats mission. Periodically, a spider that is regular-sized but now appears giant to the shrunken-down heisters will lean over the edge of the table, ready to instantly incapacitate any players that get within biting distance.
* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'''s spiders might not be as large as some examples on this page, but they're still larger than any normal spider and have a taste for human flesh.
* ''VideoGame/PeterJacksonsKingKong'' has these as minor enemies. Invincible rabbit sized spiders called Moonspiders. They appear in swarms and must be scared away with fire. If Kong leaves Ann on the ground and begins to wander away, a swarm of them will appear and attack her.
* The Dark Ragne in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' is two legs short of being a proper spider, but is otherwise similar enough to one in terms of its appearance and movements to bother arachnophobes, and is one of the largest bosses in the game overall, being about two stories tall. It also possesses a distinctive roar, which can provide an advance warning of whether or not one is lurking somewhere on the map. Helpful when considering that it can appear on any planet thanks to its teleportation and will hurt you if you're too close to its landing zone.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' series has both spiders that are around the size of the player characters and spiders that tower over them. In all cases it's not that the spiders are large by human standards, it's that the Pikmin and their commanders are small:
** The entire main series has the Arachnorb family, massive four-legged spiders with round bodies. All of them attack by stomping Pikmin with their feet, except for the Man-at-Legs, which uses a laser-cannon instead.
** Exclusive to ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' are the Dweevils. Most of them are just slightly larger than the player characters, but the Titan Dweevil is a much bigger variant that serves as the game's FinalBoss. The Titan Dweevil by itself would be harmless if it wasn't using four objects as weapons. All of the regular enemy varieties except the Volitile Dweevil are passive examples of the trope, only attacking in self-defense.
* ''VideoGame/PilgrimRPGMaker'': One with a red, human-ish face falls into the room in Storey 3, and a quartet show up in the last section of Storey 4, as pursuers.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has a few, and although most of them are rather small compared to some other examples on this page, the smallest is still quite large by spider standards and they just get bigger from there.
** Ariados is about 1 meter tall and even its pre-evolution Spinarak is a foot in size.
** Galvantula is another "small giant" spider of comparable size to Ariados, but its pre-evolution Joltik -- the smallest Pokémon in the game -- is the size of a real-life tarantula.
** Finally, there's Dewpider and its evolution Araquanid. The former is 30 cm (1 foot) large, and the latter is the biggest spider Pokémon at 1.8m (5'11) in size. That's bigger than a good number of people!
** Even bigger is the Totem Araquanid you have to fight at Brooklet Hill in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunandUltraMoon Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon]]'', and in ''Pokémon Ultra Moon'' you can receive a Totem-sized Araquanid yourself from Samson Oak after [[CollectionSidequest collecting 40 Totem Stickers]] (''Ultra Sun'' players get Alolan Marowak instead). According to the Totem Pokémon Bulbapedia page, the thing is ''3.1 meters'' (10'2) in size, which would make it the tallest Bug-type (though Scolipede, a 2.5 meter (8'2) centipede Pokémon, is considered the true bearer of the title, as Totem Araquanid is merely an alternate form).
** A player can make them even bigger if they use [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Dynamax]].
* These are the most common enemy in ''VideoGame/PurgatoryRPGMaker'' 2, although they are called Hellbeasts, and come in a various colours and sizes.
* Shows up as a type of boss in ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', and they don't do "giant" by halves. On the 3X3 enemy grid, a human occupies one space. Heavily armored knights or sizable creatures like tigers might fill two adjacent ones, and particularly large bears and such occupy a 2X2 square. A Hell Spider's ''head and thorax alone'' fill the entire grid, its legs spill off the sides, and the abdomen reaches off the end of the screen. And you ''will'' [[ThatOneBoss hate them]]. And the ''BonusBoss'' is one also... twice!
* You have to fight a few in ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape''. They're very tough opponents. Also, in the original concept of ''[[VideoGame/RavingRabbids Rayman Raving Rabbids]]'', Rayman would have been able to ride a Giant Spider. WhatCouldHaveBeen...
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' features spiders mutated by the T-Virus, who grow to the size of cars.
** Then you have the Black Tiger. Apparently giant huntsmans were not scary enough so Capcom had to come up with a freaky redesign based on Australian funnelwebs to make your S.T.A.R.S commando shit their pants. Seriously, the games peaked the fright factor here.
** One section of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' has normal, non mutated spiders. While accurately portraying African arachnids, they're about the size of Chris' fist. The game actually keeps tabs on how many you kill like any other enemy, so by all means squish 'em.
** Most of the games have giant tarantulas (called "Webspinners" in the in-game media). ''Code: Veronica'' has giant Black Widows instead, while ''Darkside Chronicles'' not only has lovingly rendered and even more ghastly Webspinners and Black Widows, but a South American version, the Jumping Maneater, which is made from, you guessed it, a jumping spider. Amusingly, they're all depicted as retaining their original proportions; even though they're all Giant Spiders, the Webspinner is bigger than the Black Widow (except for the Widow Queen, who showed up in the original ''Code: Veronica'' as a boss), which are bigger than the Jumping Maneaters. They return in the aptly named ''Lost in Nightmares.'' Small, in comparison, but see Jill's hat? They're that size. Bigger.
* Giant spiders are a common enemy in the lower levels of ''VideoGame/RohanOnline'', particularly if you're a Dark Elf in [[{{Mordor}} Ignis]], which is packed with both various species of these and the giant scorpions known as Akepions.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has several types of large spiders, most of them which are about the size of a dog. Larger ones are also present. This is taken up to eleven with the two vampire-hunting spiders Araxxor and Araxxi, the former of which makes up the bulk of the fight before being cannibalized by the latter whom is much much deadlier. They serve as ThatOneBoss for those seeking The Reaper title needed for the Completionist Cape.
* ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights'': Spiders appear as enemies at Keystone Castle. They can also be found in each of the three settings in the game's sequel, ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooAndTheSpookySwamp'', the largest of which is found in the swamp.
* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse'': The Empress Spider boss is large enough to nearly fill up the entire screen if its legs are spread out. Naturally, it's also large enough to prey on humans and other similarly-sized beings, as [[spoiler:[[OurZombiesAreDifferent Rottytops]]]] found out first hand.
* ''VideoGame/Shrek2'' has human-sized spiders. It turns out they're just babies, and the [[MotherOfAThousandYoung mother]] is humongous.
* ''VideoGame/SimAnt'' has the giant Wolf Spider of sorts. The damn thing, once it is going after you, cannot be stopped, and a small window pops up with its beady little eyes staring right at the player. Its mandibles opening and closing, drool/venom/ant blood hanging from the tips of its fangs. There is a subversion however, in that you can choose which ant you are controlling. And apparently, you can even choose to take control of the spider...This means you can take the spider and do a suicide run on the red ant colony (The black ants mortal and sworn enemy) kill hundreds of the red ants, eventually the red ants will swarm the spider and rip it apart (Which isn't graphically represented, Thank god) the spider merely falls over on its back. And shortly afterwards becomes four points of food. A reasonable exchange for possibly wiping out from a fourth to up to 3/4s of their numbers.
** If you turn the silly mode on... "Running will only prolong your suffering!"
** But once you get a large enough group of ants, getting revenge is very sweet. And you can eat them!
* ''VideoGame/SpaceDebris'' have a few missions where your starfighter battles alien spider-monsters the size of buildings.
* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' features two types of spiders, speedy hoppers which are "only" as big as your character, and slower, tougher web-spewers that are also two or three times larger; if you're able to kill the latter (usually via bomb or {{shotgun|sAreJustBetter}}), you are offered a StickyBomb upgrade.
* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' has a few examples.
** ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'': There are those terrifying metal creatures in High Caves. While they're not spiders in the truest sense of the word (more like beetles) they still have gigantic nightmare pincers and are invulnerable to normal attacks.
** ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' features big green spiders in the Mushroom Speedway level. (These spiders are harmless.) One of them also appears as a boss in the second Sparx level.
** ''VideoGame/Spyro2SeasonOfFlame'' has the blue spiders in Crocovile Swamp. They're huge, they shiver in anticipation when you get close, they endlessly respawn from their webs, they leap out at you from seemingly solid walls...

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'' expansion has Iknayids -- giant spider-like creatures native to Zakuul. They can grow from the size of a dog to as big as a rancor.
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'' have a boss called the Akhamafold Octopod, a gigantic red spider monster fought in it's web. Previously, you fight a different insectoid monster entangled in the web (one called the Captured Bedlaah) and the moment you kill it, you then realize it to be a BaitAndSwitchBoss - the webbed giant insect you killed is the Akhamafold Octopod's ''dinner'', and it's pissed that you blew up it's meal.
* ''VideoGame/SuperDungeonBros'': There are giant spiders in Bogheim that appear whenever one of the [[PlayerCharacter Bros]] walks over a cobweb on the floor. They can shoot more cobwebs at the Bros to slow them down.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': Mimi transforms into a giant spider at one point. The music that plays while she chases you is ''terrifying''. You can outrun her and spend a couple of minutes in a room, feeling fairly safe 'til she comes in through the door.
%%** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': Tarantox.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'': The first boss of the game is a jumbo-sized, purple spider [[spoiler:possessed by a ghost. Though after said ghost is removed, the arachnid shrinks back to its normal size (which is still ''massive'' for a spider)]].
%%** ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': The Spideraticus.
* ''VideoGame/SydneyHunterAndTheCurseOfTheMayan'': There are spiders in the game that are just a head shorter than Sydney.
* ''VideoGame/SydneyHunterAndTheShrinesOfPeril'': The spiders come up to Sydney's neck.
%%* ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'': They are a monster mook. And then there's [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplar the priest]] of the unnamed village]].%%ZCE. Explain how this fits the trope.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': Wall Creepers, Jungle Creepers, Black Recluses, and Blood Crawlers, enemies that are about as long as the player is tall and can walk on background walls. The immobile spider summoned from the Queen Spider Staff is about as large but fights for the player.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tibia}}'': Giant spiders are very dangerous and are credited for a good number of newbies deaths; even well leveled and experienced players avoid them if they don't have the proper gear to fight or just can't run from those monsters. However, once hasted they are faster than a level fifty player and will kill the player.
* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' has giant spiders met as enemies in three different types (large tarantula-like critters, hairless, bloated orb weavers and smaller, highly-venomous jungle spiders) and usually hanging around [[SpiderPeople Arachnoses]] but are rarely a threat if you buff your resistance to poison and health-leech. Act IV has the Albino Spiders, which are able to cast highly-damaging red lighting if at least three of them are together, as well as the Bloated One as a rather powerful boss enemy in Hades.
%%* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium''. Most video games set in Middle-Earth naturally feature these.%%Like which? How?

** The BigBad of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' [[OneWingedAngel mutates]] into a giant spider-human hybrid for the final battle.
** They appear as regular enemies in both the Southern Mexico and Jan Mayen Island levels in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld''.
** In ''VideoGame/LaraCroftGO'', giant spiders are one of the enemies Lara can encounter. They move back and forth along a straight path, killing Lara if she steps in front of them but otherwise ignoring her. A number of puzzles involve getting them to walk across a pressure plate at the right time for Lara to do something else -- on some occasions, this means actively keeping them alive them rather than just killing them.
* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'':
** The Greenskins can recruit a number of these as units, such as forest goblins riding on specimens the size of ponies and massive Arachnarok spiders the size of houses. ''The Prince and the Paunch'' DLC adds a number of new variants beyond the ones present in tabletop sources, such as swarms of quick but fragile Arachnarok hatchlings, an Arachnarok mount for goblin great shamans, and fiery variants of Arachnaroks and spider riders that can join Waaagh! armies started near volcanoes.
** In ''The Twisted and the Twilight'', Drycha's subfaction of the Wood Elves cannot recruit elven units but instead has access to a variety of bestial replacements, including swarms of gigantic forest spiders.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', naturally, goes the CuteMonsterGirl route with the ''tsuchigumo'' Yamame Kurodani.
* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'' has the Manhunter and Bloodhunter, giant spider-shaped Oni that try to shred the player and allies with giant claws. They can spawn smaller spider Oni that can inflict status effects and might come up to a human's knees or a little higher.
* The most powerful creature that Nero Chaos in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has inside him is some sort of unnamed spider that is slightly larger than a large elephant. It's not pictured or named because Shiki just kills it in one blow like everything else.
* The old [=MacVenture game=] ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'' has a giant spider underneath the house. [[spoiler: If the player tries to jump down a hole, they end up right in front of said monster and killed, while if they come across it later they can get rid of it and move on.]]
* ''VideoGame/Vectorman2'': The final boss is the Spider Queen, a giant black widow spider with an exposed brain in her thorax.
* ''VideoGame/VentureKid'': [[PlayerCharacter Andy]] faces blue spiders bigger than him as an enemy type.
* ''VideoGame/{{Vindictus}}'': Spiers roughly the size of a dog are common {{Mooks}} while larger variants are served as dungeon bosses (one being the boss of the intro/tutorial). One Royal Party Raid deserves special mention. Your party is dropped in a canyon, where a single giant spider is sitting. As you approach, a second, larger, spider jumps over the canyon wall. Only moments later a third, even larger (to the point where she takes up about 1/10th of the circular canyon by herself), [[OhCrap spider queen]] bursts forth from underground. The ensuing battle is generally only won after the spider queen (and possibly one of the other two) [[GoodBadBugs gets herself stuck on the bodies of your fallen comrades.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' has the Nerubians: giant, sapient, vaguely humanoid spider-creatures, as well as the more traditional giant spiders of various sizes, ranging from human-sized to size of a small house. The Nerubians also have an [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead]] variant called the Crypt Fiends, which are Nerubians killed by the Scourge during the War of the Spider and reanimated as undead. In turn, there is a bigger, meaner variant of the Crypt Fiends known as the Crypt Lords, though those are not so much spiders as they are huge, bulky scarabs of sorts, with mantis claws.
** And then there's [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=2707 Shadra]], the lake-sized spider god.
** They also have more generally-huge spiders, usually bigger than a human but not quite as big as a tauren. Until you enter [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Naxxramas]]. There they get to be ''gigantic''. For one thing, there's Anub'Rekhan, one of the most trusted lieutenants of the king of the Nerubians, Anub'Arak (both are Crypt Lords rather than true spiders, but [[BigCreepyCrawlies hey...]]) And then there's [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15952#comments Maexxna.]]
** Another large, but not quite as big, spider, is [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28921#comments Hadronox]]. Some people consider her to be scarier than Maexxna (it's the spikes).
** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' includes a giant spider that ''might'' be a ShoutOut to this, the [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=20682#screenshots:id=82765 Terokkarantula]]. However, it lives in a place called the Terokkar Forest, named for a god which has nothing to do with spiders, so the name might be just a mashup of "Terokkar" and "tarantula," [=and/or=] a coincidence. Not even [[http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28243#comments Thrym's]] shoe is big enough! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
* ''VideoGame/{{Wayward}}'': Giant spiders are a common enemy. [[ReducedToRatburgers They are also handy for staving off starvation a bit]], but their venom can take a big chunk from your HP.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'' has a giant spider on the second floor. The player will only see it if they remove the butterfly from its web and attempt to leave the room if they did not replace it.
* ''VideoGame/WizardryVIBaneOfTheCosmicForge'': Giant spiders show up in the dwarven mines, and occur periodically from then on out. Their only noteworthy trait is the ability to shoot webs and paralyze the party. Oddly enough, the Silence spell stops them from doing this...
* ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'' had scary giant spiders that would get right in your face and attack. They were rather lethal as well, given the game is played from a first-person view and seeing them up close to attack is horrifying.

* ''VideoGame/ZombiePlayground'': One of the pets you can give your kid is a spider about the size of a basketball.

* ''VideoGame/WizardryVIIBaneOfTheCosmicForge'': Giant spiders show up in the dwarven mines, and occur periodically from then on out. Their only noteworthy trait is the ability to shoot webs and paralyze the party. Oddly enough, the Silence spell stops them from doing this...

* The first boss in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', as well as the Bonus Boss Bandit Spider. And the Block Spider.

* Jorōgumo herself (see above) appears in ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' as a demoness with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a large spider. She is also a LiteralManeater and a MotherOfAThousandYoung who breeds a horde of powerful baby demons and will keep spawning as long as she is not yet defeated.
* The ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' duology have stages in the Cave of the Silken Web where you fight the Spider Queen, and a number of her minions are giant spiders. The first game notably have a KingMook spider large enough to take up half the boss arena, though it's a StationaryBoss who attacks with it's projectiles and claws while half-submerged in a pool. The second game have gigantic spiders larger than regular mooks, but here they're GiantMook enemies rather than bosses.
* In ''VideoGame/OverlordII'', you fight spiders the size of your minions after being shipwrecked on Everlight. Deeper into the jungle you fight their queen, who dwarfs your Overlord and minions and spits out egg clusters that hatch into smaller, minion-sized spiders. After finishing this PuzzleBoss fight, the smaller spiders do a HeelFaceTurn and allow themselves to be used as mounts by your Greens.

** ''VideoGame/Spyro2SeasonOfFlame' has the blue spiders in Crocovile Swamp. They're huge, they shiver in anticipation when you get close, they endlessly respawn from their webs, they leap out at you from seemingly solid walls...

* The final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}} 2'' is the Spider Queen, a giant black widow spider with an exposed brain in her thorax.
* [[PlayerCharacter Andy]] of ''VideoGame/VentureKid'' faces blue spiders bigger than him as an enemy type.
* Larger than average (roughly the size of a dog) spiders are common {{Mooks}} in ''VideoGame/{{Vindictus}},'' while larger variants are served as dungeon bosses (one being the boss of the intro/tutorial). One Royal Party Raid deserves special mention. Your party is dropped in a canyon, where a single giant spider is sitting. As you approach, a second, larger, spider jumps over the canyon wall. Only moments later a third, even larger (to the point where she takes up about 1/10th of the circular canyon by herself), [[OhCrap spider queen]] bursts forth from underground. The ensuing battle is generally only won after the spider queen (and possibly one of the other two) [[GoodBadBugs gets herself stuck on the bodies of your fallen comrades.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe has the Nerubians: giant, sentient, vaguely humanoid spider-creatures, as well as the more traditional giant spiders of various sizes, ranging from human-sized to size of a small house. The Nerubians also have an [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead]] variant called the Crypt Fiends, which are Nerubians killed by the Scourge during the War of the Spider and reanimated as undead. In turn, there is a bigger, meaner variant of the Crypt Fiends known as the Crypt Lords, though those are not so much spiders as they are huge, bulky scarabs of sorts, with mantis claws.

*** Another large, but not quite as big, spider, is [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28921#comments Hadronox]]. Some people consider her to be scarier than Maexxna (it's the spikes).
* Giant spiders are a common enemy in ''VideoGame/{{Wayward}}''. [[ReducedToRatburgers They are also handy for staving off starvation a bit]], but their venom can take a big chunk from your HP.

* Giant spiders show up in ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} VII: Bane of the Cosmic Forge'' in the dwarven mines, and occur periodically from then on out. Their only noteworthy trait is the ability to shoot webs and paralyze the party. Oddly enough, the Silence spell stops them from doing this...
* The PC role-playing game ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'' had scary giant spiders that would get right in your face and attack. They were rather lethal as well, given the game is played from a first-person view and seeing them up close to attack is horrifying.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' includes a giant spider that ''might'' be a ShoutOut to this, the [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=20682#screenshots:id=82765 Terokkarantula]]. However, it lives in a place called the Terokkar Forest, named for a god which has nothing to do with spiders, so the name might be just a mashup of "Terokkar" and "tarantula," [=and/or=] a coincidence. Not even [[http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28243#comments Thrym's]] shoe is big enough! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

* ''VideoGame/ZombiePlayground'': One of the pets you can give your kid is a spider about the size of a basketball.

* One of the bosses of ''VideoGame/Alundra2'' is a giant robot spider.
* Spiders are a unit type in ''VideoGame/AncientEmpires''. They're [[LightningBruiser stronger, tougher and faster than the basic Soldier]], and their attack poisons their target (inflicting a debuff that lowers stats for several turns). They first show up in the middle of a forest and are referred to as forest spiders, suggesting that this is their original habitat.

* One of the recurring enemy types in ''VideoGame/AssaultRetribution'', befitting a game set in a BugWar.

* In [=RPG=]s, the ''FellowshipOfTheWhiteStar'' event "Web of Lies" has a creepy cat lady whose pets are cat and dog-sized spiders that act like cats and dogs. Hilariously creepy.

* The first real boss of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' is Boris, a giant spider-crab hybrid. Its name is actually a reference to a fan favourite Music/TheWho song called "Boris the Spider", so is its special attack "Sticky End" ("He's come to a sticky end / Don't think he will ever mend") and a part of its entry in the bestiary ("Maybe he's as scared as me / Where's he gone now, I can't see").
* The [[OneWingedAngel third form]] of the [[BigBad Dark King]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' is a giant spider. The fourth form retains the spiderlike body and fangs and the "Spider Kids" attack but replaces the segmented spider legs with CombatTentacles.

* ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' has a RandomEvent where a space station is under attack by these. Your default options are to either send in your crew, which will either result in a small reward or loss of one crew member or play it safe and decline to assist. However, if you have the proper equipment, it is possible to TakeAThirdOption and use risk-free ways of dealing with the spiders, giving you the rewards without worrying about losing crew members.

* These are regular enemies in ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'' video game. They're still preferable to the small spiders, which are GoddamnedBats.
* A few big spiders appear in ''VideoGame/{{Hytale}}'''s first zone, but the Void Spider, a Dungeon Boss ''twice'' the size of a human, certainly takes the cake.
* Spiders primarily appear during the cave levels of ''[[VideoGame/IceAge Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]''.
* ''VideoGame/TheImmortal'' has one, that like most things in the game, will [[OneHitPointWonder kill you in one web-tangling instant]]. However, even worse are her egg sacks scattering the level. These unleash hordes of baby spiders if you happen to touch them, and...well, [[LetsPlay in the words of]] LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}}, "Why would they INCLUDE something like that?"

* In ''VideoGame/JackieChansActionKungFu'', the FinalBoss turns into a giant spider.
* ''[[VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo Kao The Kangaroo: Round 2]]'' has those in the form of enemies that descend from the ceiling and have to be quickly hit with a boomerang, or else they'll spit acid at you that somehow homes in on you.

* Elise from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a spider-themed champion, who normally appears as a human in ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire, but can also transform into a giant spider with a few smaller spider minions. She's also the leader of spider cult which sacrifices its worshippers to a giant spider that appears in-game as a BonusBoss on the map Twisted Treeline.

* The first boss of the NES game ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryAxe'' is a massive spider hanging on a cave's ceiling with its web, who will attack you by dropping down periodically and firing its webs on you. This particular spider shows up on most box arts of this game.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' has giant ''invisible'' spiders under the Ikana graveyard.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' took this even further with its sixth dungeon, which was packed to bursting with the things, and the boss being the biggest of the lot of course -- Armogohma is MASSIVE. And then, when you defeat the giant spider, its body disintegrates and its large, central eye becomes ''another'' spider, surrounded by hundreds of tiny little spiders... and they swarm chaotically around the room...
* Anyone would be forgiven for ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'' being terrified having to face [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDIAxsr328 this.]]
* Giant spiders are one of the most common enemies in the rail shooter ''VideoGame/LetsGoJungle!''.
* The Xbox Arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'' features a supremely creepy giant spider as one of the game's first main obstacles.
* Found in ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima'' in several sizes from the starter dungeon to the mid-game. All of them are bad news due to powerful poison attacks, a stacking web debuff, and the chance to cause sickness that requires a trip to the nearest temple to cure.

* The Demonic Spiders and their variations in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' are huge spiders that hang from the ceiling and that have Mii facial features on their abdomen.

** Another example is [[SeldomSeenSpecies Peacock Spider]], one of the [[BonusBoss Bounties]] that terrorizes Bugaria by luring the travelers with enthralling music on its island to devour them.

** [[UpToEleven Even bigger]] is the Totem Araquanid you have to fight at Brooklet Hill in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunandUltraMoon Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon]]'', and in ''Pokémon Ultra Moon'' you can receive a Totem-sized Araquanid yourself from Samson Oak after [[CollectionSidequest collecting 40 Totem Stickers]] (''Ultra Sun'' players get Alolan Marowak instead). According to the Totem Pokémon Bulbapedia page, the thing is ''3.1 meters'' (10'2) in size, which would make it the tallest Bug-type (though Scolipede, a 2.5 meter (8'2) centipede Pokémon, is considered the true bearer of the title, as Totem Araquanid is merely an alternate form).

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has several types of large spiders, most of them which are about the size of a dog. Larger ones are also present. This is taken UpToEleven with the two vampire-hunting spiders Araxxor and Araxxi, the former of which makes up the bulk of the fight before being cannibalized by the latter whom is much much deadlier. They serve as ThatOneBoss for those seeking The Reaper title needed for the Completionist Cape.

** Most of the games have giant tarantulas (called "Webspinners" in the in-game media). ''Code: Veronica'' has giant Black Widows instead, while ''Darkside Chronicles'' not only has lovingly rendered and even more ghastly Webspinners and Black Widows, but a South American version, the Jumping Maneater, which is made from, you guessed it, a jumping spider. Amusingly, they're all depicted as retaining their original proportions; even though they're all Giant Spiders, the Webspinner is bigger than the Black Widow (except for the Widow Queen, who showed up in the original ''Code: Veronica'' as a boss), which are bigger than the Jumping Maneaters. They return in the aptly named ''Lost in Nightmares.'' Small, in comparison, but see Jill's NiceHat? They're that size. Bigger.

* ''King Kong, the official game of the movie'', based on [[Film/KingKong2005 the Peter Jackson film]], has these as minor enemies. Invincible rabbit sized spiders called Moonspiders. They appear in swarms and must be scared away with fire. If Kong leaves Ann on the ground and begins to wander away, a swarm of them will appear and attack her.

* The ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' duology have stages in the Cave of the Silken Web where you fight the Spider Queen, and a number of her minions are giant spiders. The first game notably have a spider large enough to take up half the boss arena, though it's a StationaryBoss who attacks with it's projectiles and claws while half-submerged in a pool. The second game have gigantic spiders larger than regular mooks, but here they're GiantMook enemies rather than bosses.

** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'' features Arachnes, basically a freakish mermaid; except replace the fish part with a spider part.

*** ''4'' has the Nerscylla, a spider the size of van that wears the rubbery hides of Gypceros -- a kind of wyvern that Nerscyllas regularly prey on -- as a cloak. It has both poisonous fangs ''and'' a stinger in its abdomen that puts its victims to sleep.
*** In ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise Rise]]'', we are introduced to the Rakna Kadaki and her spawn the Rachnoids. Unlike Nerscylla, she's a long-necked spider that's [[PlayingWithFire quite the pyromaniac]]. In terms of fighting style, she's [[ForceAndFinesse the force to Nerscylla's finesse]].

* The first boss of the old NES game ''VideoGame/LegendaryAxe'' is a massive spider hanging on a cave's ceiling with its web, who will attack you by dropping down periodically and firing its webs on you. This particular spider shows up on most box arts of this game.

* The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' universe features spiders mutated by the T-Virus, who grow to the size of cars.

** Most of the games have giant tarantulas (called "Webspinners" in the in-game media). ''Code: Veronica'' has giant Black Widows instead, while ''Darkside Chronicles'' not only has lovingly rendered and even more ghastly Webspinners and Black Widows, but a South American version, the Jumping Maneater, which is made from, you guessed it, a jumping spider. Amusingly, they're all depicted as retaining their original proportions; even though they're all Giant Spiders, the Webspinner is bigger than the Black Widow (except for the Widow Queen, who showed up in the original ''Code: Veronica'' as a boss), which are bigger than the Jumping Maneaters.
*** They return in the aptly named ''Lost in Nightmares.'' Small, in comparison, but see Jill's NiceHat? They're that size. Bigger.

* Spiders appear as enemies at Keystone Castle in ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''. They can also be found in each of the three settings in the game's sequel, ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooAndTheSpookySwamp'', the largest of which is found in the swamp.
* The Empress Spider boss from ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'' is large enough to nearly fill up the entire screen if its legs are spread out. Naturally, it's also large enough to prey on humans and other similarly-sized beings, as [[spoiler:[[OurZombiesAreDifferent Rottytops]]]] found out first hand.
* 'The 'VideoGame/Shrek2'' video game has human-sized spiders. It turns out they're just babies, and the [[MotherOfAThousandYoung mother]] is humongous.

** And if you turn the silly mode on... "Running will only prolong your suffering!"

* The ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' games have a few examples.
** In the first game, there are those terrifying metal creatures in High Caves. While they're not spiders in the truest sense of the word (more like beetles) they still have gigantic nightmare pincers and are invulnerable to normal attacks.
** The third game features big green spiders in the Mushroom Speedway level. (These spiders are harmless.) One of them also appears as a boss in the second Sparx level.
** ''Spyro 5'' also has those blue spiders in Crocovile Swamp. They're huge, they shiver in anticipation when you get close, they endlessly respawn from their webs, they leap out at you from seemingly solid walls...
* The Ilwrath from ''VideoGame/StarControl'' are a race of sentient giant spiders who practice a ReligionOfEvil.
* The ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'' expansion to ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has Iknayids -- giant spider-like creatures native to Zakuul. They can grow from the size of a dog to as big as a rancor.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Mimi transforms into a giant spider at one point. The music that plays while she chases you is ''terrifying''. You can outrun her and spend a couple of minutes in a room, feeling fairly safe 'til she comes in through the door.
** Also, Tarantox from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.

** The Spideraticus from ''VideoGame/WarioWorld''.

* The spiders in ''VideoGame/SydneyHunterAndTheShrinesOfPeril'' come up to Sydney's neck.
* They are a monster mook in ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2''. And then there's [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplar the priest]] of the unnamed village]].

* Giant Spiders are very dangerous in ''VideoGame/{{Tibia}}'' and are credited for a good number of newbies deaths; even well leveled and experienced players avoid them if they don't have the proper gear to fight or just can't run from those monsters. However, once hasted they are faster than a level fifty player and will kill the player.