Monk Took Book Arachnophobia Mode and Accessibility Settings

A cozy game that took accessibility seriously

Indie games often promise “cozy” and then ship a spider in your face. Monk Took Book’s official feature list reads like someone answered that exact complaint: arachnophobia mode sits in the store page’s feature set alongside the difficulty and comfort controls — officially supported, first-class, no mods required. This page walks the full accessibility kit, all of it confirmed from the official description rather than community reporting.

Arachnophobia mode

For players with real spider aversion, this is the setting that decides the purchase. The game’s second confirmed vermin is a spider (our spider guide covers its achievement-backed behavior), and the official mode addresses it directly. How it reskins or removes the spiders — and whether webs and the Kill a spider achievement interact with it — is undocumented; test it in the free demo if the detail matters to you (demo guide).

The enemy granular controls

The official wording is unusually precise: you can reduce, increase or disable some or all enemies. “Some or all” is the key phrase — this is not one easy-mode toggle but per-threat control, which means a player afraid of ghosts but fine with rats can configure exactly that blend. Our difficulty settings guide keeps the documented details and open questions (including the achievement interaction below).

Alongside the enemies, you can also control book arrival rates — the pacing lever that turns a frantic abbey into a meditative one without touching the threat settings at all.

Motion, camera and visual comfort

The officially listed comfort set covers the standard motion-sickness levers:

• FoV slider — the single most requested comfort setting in first-person games, present here
• Headbob slider — adjustable rather than just toggleable, down to zero
• Gamma slider — the library is deliberately dark; this keeps “dark” from becoming “invisible”
• First- or third-person camera — a genuine alternative for players who find first-person views uncomfortable, not just a cosmetic toggle
• Window or fullscreen mode, widescreen support — basics, but officially listed

Controls and input

Full key rebinding is official, which matters more than usual here: night defense asks for quick weapon switches while night orders ask for sprint-and-fetch — different hands want different layouts. Manual and autosave are both listed, so a bad night never costs a whole day’s shelving.

The one open question

Does using any of this touch achievements? The confirmed achievement list includes killing a rat and a spider, so fully enemy-free runs presumably skip those two. Whether reduced settings mark a save or lock anything else has never been stated officially. Completionists should treat enemy-disable mode as a comfort tool and decide consciously; everyone else can set the game exactly as gentle or as tense as they want it.