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  • Bladed Fury has a giant spider as one of the bosses. You first enter a large room filled with cobwebs and cocooned corpses, and suddenly the monster descends from the ceiling, where it's a huge monster capable of swallowing you in a single bite. The game later throws smaller spiders as common enemies, but being man-sized they're still large enough for this trope.
  • Blade Master has giant spiders as a common mook for players to slice up. These arachnids goes down easily, but they can sometimes execute a difficult-to-dodge Rolling Attack.
  • Brütal Legend: 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.
  • Castle Crashers: The Evil Wizard, the final boss, turns into a giant spidery abomination as his fourth phase (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.
  • Chaos Heat have several of the mutated abominations taking the forms of gigantic spiders of assorted sizes, from up to the player's waist to as large as the room they're in. The second boss is notably a King Mook spider Puppeteer Parasite infecting a human corpse, who detaches itself to attack once you killed it's host body (It Can Think!).
  • Demon Skin has massive spiders as recurring enemies in the jungle stages.
  • Devil May Cry:
    • Devil May Cry features Phantom, a giant tarantula made out of Lava, with a scorpion tail, as a Recurring Boss. He also shows up in Devil May Cry 2. The game also has Kyklopses; smaller spiders made out of rock. And by smaller, they're still about as long as Dante was tall.
    • Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening features Arachnes, basically a freakish mermaid; except replace the fish part with a spider part.
  • Eternity: The Last Unicorn have oversized arachnids as recurring enemies in the Jotundrir tunnels, including a King Mook boss against the Spider Queen.
  • Flash of the Blade have the Jorōgumo boss summoning gigantic spiders to assist her, including spiders the size of horse-carriages which serves as a Giant Mook enemy.
  • Legend (1998) have oversized spiders, some six times larger than most regular enemies, as a not-too-frequent Giant Mook encounter.
  • Ninja: Shadow of Darkness: 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 Queen Mook boss which is an enlarged version of the giant spider mooks (roughly fifteen times larger than you).
  • Not Dying Today have larger-than average spiders in the Absurdly Spacious Sewer stage, and at the end of the level you fight an absoltely massive King Mook spider several times larger than your character.
  • Shade: Wrath of Angels have giant spiders in the Church basements, including a room-sized arachnid monstrosity who serves as a King Mook boss.
  • Super Cyborg 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 Bait-and-Switch Boss - the webbed giant insect you killed is the Akhamafold Octopod's dinner, and it's pissed that you blew up it's meal.
  • 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), spider queen bursts forth from underground. The ensuing battle is generally only won after the spider queen (and possibly one of the other two) gets herself stuck on the bodies of your fallen comrades.
  • Zombie Playground: One of the pets you can give your kid is a spider about the size of a basketball.

    Action-Adventure 
  • Alundra 2: One of the bosses is a giant robot spider.
  • Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 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. However, in the second game, the imbalance affecting the worlds causes them to go berserk, and one serves as a mini-boss.
  • 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 Loom Wardens (which can be easy enough once you get the Abyssal Chain), the house-sized Brood Mother (which isn't so hard once you figure out the trick to beating it), and three-story tall Spider Queen Silitha.
  • The Legend of Spyro: The swamp levels in the first two games are home to Bulb Spiders, Spyro-sized arachnids which pretend to be inert mushrooms until Spyro is close to them.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oversized spider enemies and bosses are a recurring element in the series:
    • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: Dealers are spiders larger than Link, and attack by entangling people in their thrown webs.
    • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The first dungeon, Inside the Deku Tree, is crawling with Link-sized Skulltulas and ends in a battle against the monstrous arthropod Queen Gohma.
    • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has giant invisible spiders under the Ikana graveyard.
    • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: The sixth dungeon, the Temple of Time, is packed to bursting with the things, and the boss of course being the biggest of the lot — Armogohma is the size of a small cottage. When you defeat the giant spider, its body disintegrates and its large, central eye becomes another spider, surrounded by hundreds of tiny little spiders that swarm chaotically around the room.
  • Ōkami: The first dungeon, Tsuta Ruins, features the Spider Queen, a giant hybrid flower-spider-human demon inspired by the Jorōgumo. Later on, Amaterasu can encounter Bandit Spiders, a Degraded Boss version that is fought in a similar way.
  • Overlord II: 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 Puzzle Boss fight, the smaller spiders do a Heel–Face Turn and allow themselves to be used as mounts by your Greens.
  • Star Control: The Ilwrath are a race of sapient giant spiders who practice a Religion of Evil.
  • Tomb Raider:
    • Tomb Raider II has an area involving these.
    • Tomb Raider III: The Big Bad mutates into a giant spider-human hybrid for the final battle.
    • Tomb Raider: Underworld: They appear as regular enemies in both the Southern Mexico and Jan Mayen Island levels.
    • Lara Croft GO: 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.

    Adventure 
  • The Immortal has one, that like most things in the game, will 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, in the words of Slowbeef, "Why would they INCLUDE something like that?"
  • Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures has giant spiders as some of the weakest enemies, alongside Scary Scorpions, found in the Amazon jungle and the caverns beneath. They go down quickly and do little damage, and are more mildly annoying than dangerous.
  • King's Quest:
  • 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 the spider instantly starts smashing everything in its path and proceeds to devour you whole. Fortunately, thanks to the dream's inverse logic, this doesn't kill you.
  • Röki has Widow Drau, a massive, sapient albino spider who lives in the caves underneath the abandoned stave church where Jotunbjorn slumbers. When Tove arrives to awaken Jotunbjorn, Widow Drau captures her, and she must escape while also helping the local cave tomte drive her off.
  • Uninvited has a giant spider underneath the house. 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.

    Fighting Games 
  • The Black Heart features a Stripperiffic Hot Monster Babe by the name of Ananzi who can transform into a spider and devour her opponents.
  • Injustice 2: A giant spider will randomly jump onto the camera and obstruct the player's vision during certain fights in the Long Halloween event.
  • Mortal Kombat X: The Krypt 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.
  • Oriental Legend 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 King Mook spider large enough to take up half the boss arena, though it's a Stationary Boss 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 Giant Mook enemies rather than bosses.

    First-Person Shooter 
  • Choo-Choo Charles: Half train, half gigantic spider, all terrifying beast from hell. The main reason why your character, the Archivist, even came to the Island of Aranearum in the first place.
  • Giant spiders appears halfway into Deadhunt, as one of the larger enemy types. The basic ones are larger than the common zombies or knights and can spit poison at you from a distance, and there's a red, dog-sized spider variant who functions like an Action Bomb.
  • Dreamkiller, a game where you infiltrate nightmares of your clients to purge them of their phobias by destroying what they fear the most. Your first client has arachnophobia, so when you enter her dream you're beset by huge spiders everywhere.
  • Dread Templar have all kinds of arachnid-based enemies all over the place, and most of them are huge. Then there's the Spider Queen boss who's as large as the cavern you battle her in.
  • Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel has a giant arachnid monster fought as a boss in a cobweb-lined attic.
  • The first Propagation throws giant spiders in the last few stages, in a section overgrown with cobwebs. And after killing the largest of the spiders, the queen, her abdomen splits open to give birth to the spider-zombie-mutant last boss.
  • Putrefaction has gigantic green spiders in the underground caverns, alongside Spider People mooks.

    Hidden Object Games 
  • Dark Parables 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 Jump Scare moments when you wander into the swamp).

    Licensed Games 

    Metroidvanias 
  • Eastern Exorcist has giant arachnid enemies in both campaigns, for players who chose either characters Lu Yun-chuan or Xiahou-Xue, ranging from human-sized to Giant Mook spiders larger than chariots to, in Yun-chuan's campaign, a King Mook spider that takes up more than half the screen.
  • A Body Horror example in Heidelberg 1693; the Moon King's curse have resulted into human flesh being contorted into assorted abominations, one of them being a gigantic spider-like monster made from fusing different bodies into one. Who crawls above you to drop projectile attacks. Killing it turns the spider-monster into a bloodied, naked human corpse.
  • Metroid Fusion has 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.
  • One Dog Story has various bugs and insects and spiders as big as the Player Character as enemies.
  • Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: 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 Rottytops found out first hand.
  • Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan: There are spiders in the game that are just a head shorter than Sydney.
  • Sydney Hunter and the Shrines of Peril: The spiders come up to Sydney's neck.

    Minigame Games 
  • Big Fun in Furbyland: In the 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.

    MMOs 
  • City of Heroes: 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: 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.'
  • EverQuest has the aptly named Terrorantula. Who is, to put it mildly, FRAKKIN HUGE!◊ It's still around in EverQuest II. 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.
  • Guild Wars 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).
  • Phantasy Star Online 2: The Dark Ragne 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.
  • R.O.H.A.N. Online: Giant spiders are a common enemy in the lower levels, particularly if you're a Dark Elf in Ignis, which is packed with both various species of these and the giant scorpions known as Akepions.
  • 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 That One Boss for those seeking The Reaper title needed for the Completionist Cape.
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: 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.
  • 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.
  • World of Warcraft:
    • 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 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.
    • Shadra, a 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 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 hey...) And then there's Maexxna.
    • Another large, but not quite as big, spider, is Hadronox. Some people consider her to be scarier than Maexxna (it's the spikes).
    • The Terokkarantula, which 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.

    MOBAs 
  • Dota 2: The hero Broodmother 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.
  • League of Legends: Elise is a spider-themed champion, who normally appears as a human in Arachnid Appearance and Attire, 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 boss on the map Twisted Treeline.

    Platformers 
  • Bomberman 64 has Mantis, a giant ice spider, for a boss that proves to be quite a handful.
  • Bug: Queen Cadavra, the fat and obnoxious black widow spider. At least in proportion. She's at least two times the size of Bug.
  • 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.
  • Donkey Kong
    • Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! has Arich the Arachnid. Being the second boss (third in Donkey Kong Land 3), he shoots green orbs and hops around the boss arena using a string of webbing.
    • There's also a friendly giant, shoe wearing spider named Squitter, who first appears in ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and its sequel. He lets the Kongs ride on his back and can create web projectiles that can either form platforms or attack enemies.
    • Donkey Kong 64 has another giant spider boss, this time fought in Fungi Forest, and he can only be fought by Tiny. Unlike Arich, the giant blue spider uses his children to attack Tiny, and he actually uses his webbing as an attack. Tiny is required to shoot his single open eye to hurt him.
  • Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles features a giant spider who is actually very friendly.
  • Fox N Forests: The boss of the autumn levels is a giant spider with buzzsaw blades on its pincers. To beat it, you need to climb to the top of the windmill and gets it sliced up by the spinning blades up there.
  • Ganryu has a giant spider as a boss, who will repeatedly try to Goomba Stomp you to a pulp.
  • Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu: The Final Boss turns into a giant spider.
  • 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.
  • The Legendary Axe: 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.
  • Limbo features a giant spider as one of the game's first main obstacles.
  • Mega Man X had Bospider in the first game and Web Spider in the fourth.
  • Mighty Aphid: In addition to all the giant bug monsters, Avery "Aphid" Cavor can also encounter spiders that look almost as big as Avery is tall.
  • 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.
  • Nomolos: Storming the Catsle: Nomolos encounters spiders almost as big as he is as enemies. They only move back and forth.
  • Rayman 2: The Great Escape: You have to fight a few. They're very tough opponents. Also, in the original concept of Rayman Raving Rabbids, Rayman would have been able to ride a Giant Spider. What Could Have Been...
  • Shantae: Spiders that are about as big as Shantae, and fire pellets at her, are a common enemy:
  • Songs for a Hero have a gigantic red arachnid called the Lava Spider, fought in a volcano where you're on a series of platforms above a lava pool.
  • Spyro the Dragon has a few examples.
    • Spyro the Dragon (1998): 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.
    • Spyro: Year of the Dragon 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 2: Season of Flame 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...
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: The first boss of the game is a jumbo-sized, purple spider possessed by a ghost. After the ghost is removed, the arachnid shrinks back to its normal size (which is however still massive for a spider).
    • Super Paper Mario: 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.
  • Vectorman 2: The final boss is the Spider Queen, a giant black widow spider with an exposed brain in her thorax.
  • Venture Kid: Andy faces blue spiders bigger than him as an enemy type.
  • Wizards & Warriors 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.

    Real-Time Strategy 
  • Age of Mythology: 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.
  • 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.
  • Pikmin: The 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.
    • Pikmin 2: 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 Final Boss. 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.
  • Total War: Warhammer:
    • 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.
    • The overworld map contains several giant spiders lurking in corners of the world overgrown with spiderwebs, such as the deep forests of the Empire, the jungles of Lustria, and the crags around Mount Arachnos.
  • In Warrior Kings, the Pagan faction can summon the Spider Demon. These demons act like light cavalry units, moving quickly and spitting a stream of acid that'll quickly kill heavy infantry.

    Roguelikes 
  • The Binding of Isaac 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 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.
  • FTL: Faster Than Light:
    • The game has a Random Event 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 Take a Third Option and use risk-free ways of dealing with the spiders, giving you the rewards without worrying about losing crew members.
    • FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse, a mod, adds an entire new race of spiders (with four subtypes) along with their own infested sector to inhabit.
  • 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.
  • 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), you are offered a Sticky Bomb upgrade.
  • Super Dungeon Bros: There are giant spiders in Bogheim that appear whenever one of the Bros walks over a cobweb on the floor. They can shoot more cobwebs at the Bros to slow them down.
  • Wayward: Giant spiders are a common enemy. They are also handy for staving off starvation a bit, but their venom can take a big chunk from your HP.

    Role-Playing Games 
  • 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, 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 destroy your equipment).
  • Avencast: Rise of the Mage: The cavern of trials has a Spider Queen, complete with periodic additional mobs.
  • Baldur's Gate 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.
  • Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden features deadly B-Ball spiders, which have heads and bodies made out of giant basketballs. Their bites can inflict glaucoma on your characters.
  • Bloodborne features the Nightmare Apostles, hordes of spiders which chases you throughout their home once they spotted you. The red variant summoned by Chime Maiden are far worse, they can detect you without seeing you, catching most people off guard when they are idling.
  • Born Under the Rain: Spiders are a possible enemy, as seen in an official screenshot, and they'd have to be big, to pose a significant threat to human-sized beings.
  • Brave Hero Yuusha: Antrachnid, a giant red spider as an enemy in the Desert area.
  • Bug Fables:
    • A giant spider living in Snakemouth Den is the first boss the main party encounters. However, it's only in proportion, as the main characters are insects, so for a human it would be normal-sized.
    • Peacock Spider, one of the Bounties, is another monstrous arachnid that terrorizes Bugaria by luring the travelers with enthralling music on its island to devour them.
  • Child of Light features them prominently as enemies. There are two different types of giant spiders as regular mooks, each complete with Underground Monkey variants, a third type that serves as a Wolfpack Mini-Boss, and a particularly huge one is a boss.
  • Darkest Dungeon: 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 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 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.
  • Dark Souls:
    • Dark Souls 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.
    • Dark Souls II: Arachnophobes will not enjoy the Brightstone Cove Tseldora. 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.
  • Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Buru is a sentient spider demon who uses its web to swing in and out of the boss room.
  • Demon's Souls: The Armor Spider is the first boss in the Stonefang Tunnel area. It's a Stationary Boss that shoots web from afar and claw at you at close range. It also breathes fire.
  • Diablo:
    • Diablo II: Several kinds of giant spiders figure prominently as enemies in Act 3 (Kurast).
    • Diablo III 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.
  • Dragon Age: 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.
    • Dragon Age: Origins: 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 Dragon Age II alongside the Queen Spider, which makes the others look tiny.
    • They show up in 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. Corypheus' lieutenant, the massive fear demon known as Nightmare, also appears as a mountain-sized spider that can cause the Heroic Sacrifice of either Hawke or the Warden Stroud/Loghain/Alistair.
    • Some 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.
  • Dragon's Crown: Giant Spiders are regular Mooks you could find in web-covered rooms. Naturally, they could poison you and throw webs at you, and the art book mentions that their size allow them to prey on anything caught in their webs, including humans.
  • Dungeon Siege has quite a few spidery enemies, including Drider-esque humanoid-hybrid ones called mucosas (with an annoying habit of shrieking loudly when they attack) and an extra-large giant spider Mini-Boss.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
    • The series has various giant spiders as common low to mid-level creature enemies dating all the way back to 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 Spider People form of lesser Daedra. They have humanoid upper bodies attached to the below the waist to the abdomen, thorax, and legs of a giant spider.
    • The Elder Scrolls V: 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 Mods 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 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 Spider-Man. 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.
    • The Creation Club mod, "The Contest" added additional giant spider bosses called Web Mothers, that were much larger than giant Frostbite Spiders, and attacked the player by launching explosive spiders at you.
  • Exile/Avernum: There are several varieties of giant spiders. There are generic giant ones, evil spellcasting ones, and the Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders. They're Cloudcuckoolanders, all named Spider, and so annoying they frequently drive people insane. "You're cute!"
  • Fellowship Of The White Star: 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.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy X-2: The first real boss is Boris, a giant spider-crab hybrid. Its name is actually a reference to a fan favourite The Who 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").
    • Final Fantasy Mystic Quest: The third form of the 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 Combat Tentacles.
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones has 2 types of these: Bael and Elder Bael. They usually carry poison. Notable as they have the same Stat Caps.
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 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, 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.
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel: 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.
  • Lords of Xulima: 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.
  • Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven has an entire class of monsters dedicated to this. Although they aren't very tough, they get poisonous attacks, though, and they are fast.
  • Miitopia: The Demonic Spiders and their variations are huge spiders that hang from the ceiling and that have Mii facial features on their abdomen.
  • Monster Hunter: In general, arachnoid monsters fall under the category of "Temnoceran".
    • Monster Hunter 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. 4 Ultimate introduces Shrouded Nerscylla, a desert-dwelling subspecies whose poison is far deadlier and whose abdomen trades the original's sleep infliction for paralysis.
    • Monster Hunter Online: Baelidae. 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.
    • Monster Hunter: Rise: We are introduced to the Rakna Kadaki and her spawn the Rachnoids. Unlike Nerscylla, she's a long-necked spider that's quite the pyromaniac. In terms of fighting style, she's the force to Nerscylla's finesse. Sunbreak introduces the Pyre subspecies, whose modus operandi is to send sparks through her webs to detonate the Pyrantula offspring.
  • Neverwinter Nights:
    • Giant spiders are available as animal companions (for druids and rangers) and familiars (for wizards and sorcerers).
    • Neverwinter Nights 2 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 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!"
  • 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 Literal Maneater and a Mother of a Thousand Young who breeds a horde of powerful baby demons and will keep spawning as long as she is not yet defeated.
  • Path of Exile 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.
  • Pokémon 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 Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and in Pokémon Ultra Moon you can receive a Totem-sized Araquanid yourself from Samson Oak after 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 Dynamax.
    • Tarountula and Spidops made their debut in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Although Tarountula is around the same as Spinarak and Dewpider(about 1 foot), its evolution Spidops is 1 meter tall.
  • Radiant Historia: Shows up as a type of boss, 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 hate them.
  • Titan Quest 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge: 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 Xenoblade Chronicles series have the arachno family. Most are in the range of small to large dog size, but the boss and unique monster varieties are much, much larger than the protagonists.

    Sandbox Games 
  • Don't Starve 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 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.
  • Dwarf Fortress 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.
  • Farpoint features the characters stranded on a hostile alien planet infested by gigantic arachnids, with a King Mook spider larger than the Taj Mahal as a boss.
  • Grounded: Technically the spiders are normal-sized and it's you whose been shrunken but the effect is the same.
  • 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.
  • Giant spiders are enemies in Necesse that spawn in web-covered sections of caves. An even bigger spider is the boss of the Snow Caves.
  • 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.

    Shooters 
  • Alien Soldier had "Back Stringer". You fight this bugger on the previous Mini-Boss, a giant moth that had recently become its dinner. Worst part was that destructible baby spiders would appear every now and then to pull down the "platform" you were on, and would cause you to fall into a Bottomless Pit if they succeeded.
  • Blood: The second episode 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.
  • The Conduit has Drudge Invaders, four-legged tank-sized creepie crawlies that launch flying bugs.
  • Demon Front 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 Giant Mook-variety of enemies in the game.
  • 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 Psychic Powers to toss objects at you and seem to serve as brood mothers to the Trites.
  • Earth Defense Force: The series has giant spiders aplenty that leap around shoot web that entangles and hurts players and their NPC allies.
  • Fester's Quest: A giant spider alien appears as a Unique Enemy.
  • Gryphon Knight Epic: One of the enemy types you face is spider roughly as big as Sir Oliver.
  • Let's Go Jungle: Giant spiders are one of the most common enemies.
  • Northern Journey 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.
  • PAYDAY 2'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.
  • Space Debris have a few missions where your starfighter battles alien spider-monsters the size of buildings.
  • Touhou Project, naturally, goes the Cute Monster Girl route with the tsuchigumo Yamame Kurodani.

    Simulation Games 
  • Crush, Crumble, and Chomp!: The player-monster Arachnis is a Kaiju-sized spider, like Kumonga, who can leave a trail of web behind.
  • Cute Knight Kingdom requires you to fight one for one of the endings. You get a rather neat ending if you beat this spider, and a rather depressing one if you lose.
  • Dungeons 2 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 sequel has, again, giant spiders randomly appearing in certain locations of the Dungeon.
  • 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!

    Survival Horror 
  • As of the version 5 update for Granny, a giant tarantula capable of eating a raw t-bone steak in just a few seconds lives up in the titular villain's attic.
  • Gynophobia: When you're having a nightmare after sniffing your mom's potion, you encounter spiders the size of dogs.
  • Penumbra: 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.
  • Pilgrim (RPG Maker): 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.
  • Resident Evil features spiders mutated by the T-Virus which 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 peak the fright factor here.
    • One section of Resident Evil 5 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 The 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 shows 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.
  • The Witch's House 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.

     Tower Defense 
  • A fairly common enemy type in Kingdom Rush is a spider much bigger than its usual size. They come in many shapes and forms, but commonly have great resistance to magical attacks, use swarm tactics and various spider-related abilities such as webbing, damaging venom or Weaponised Offspring. Of note are the biggest and most vicious specimen, such as Spider Queen Sarelgaz, a Damage-Sponge Boss with most health of any boss in the series and a One-Hit Kill where she eats troops, her Sons with Nigh-Invulnerable carapace and Mactans with her trickery and webbing. The latter can also be counted as Greater-Scope Villain for the series along with Twilight Elf Queen Malicia due to being responsible for indirect corruption of Vez'nan, the series' Big Bad.
    Turn-Based Strategy 
  • Ancient Empires: Spiders are a unit type. They're 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.
  • Battle for Wesnoth: Giant Spider 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.
  • Heroes of Jin Yong has oversized arachnids as a minor enemy in the caverns.

    Visual Novels 
  • Atlach=Nacha, an obscure H-game where you play a shapeshifting spider demon (a Jorougumo to be precise, see Mythology above) in high school.
  • Tsukihime: The most powerful creature that Nero Chaos 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.

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