Elder Scrolls Skyrim Mods To Try out

Here are some of the great ‘Skyrim’ mods to go through—the ones that really make changes in many aspects of the game, from graphics and feeling to gameplay.

Enderal: The Shards of Order
Overview: Total conversion mods that create an entire new world, storyline, and mechanics. Almost a standalone game in its own right, offering a more narrative-driven RPG experience.
Why Explore: Enderal turns a new ‘Skyrim’ experience into a much darker and complex story, deeply intermingled with rich RPG mechanics.
Legacy of the Dragonborn – Dragonborn Gallery
Description: This mod adds a place where you can collect unique artifacts, weapons, and items throughout the course of playing through Skyrim. It’s set up to integrate well with other mods such as Moonpath to Elsweyr.
Why Explore: It is an immersive experience for collectors and lore-lovers, adding hours of gameplay as you build up your own museum.
Skyrim Together Reborn
Overview: Multiplayer mod that allows players to play Skyrim with their friends. It is still in early development, but it allows multiple players to join up in one world and play through together.
Why Explore: It adds a multiplayer component to a decidedly single-player game, with co-op adventures taken over by players.
Falskaar
Overview: An extremely ambitious quest mod that opens a whole new landmass, new characters, quests, and lore. To say the least, it feels like an official expansion pack.
Why Explore: If you’ve gone through the base content of Skyrim, Falskaar will provide you with a new adventure in a completely new land, detailed and with great storytelling.
Immersive Citizens
Overview: This mod overhauls NPC behavior, making them act far more realistically in different situations—from taking shelter during bad weather to interacting in more dynamic ways when encountering combat.
Why Explore: It provides depth to the world; NPCs will seem to have more life, and Skyrim itself will be more immersive as well.
Enhanced Lights and FX (ELFX)
Summary: A graphical modification that overhauls the in-game lighting system, adds more atmospheric lighting, and realistic shadows, enhancing the interior and exterior looks.
Why Install: ELFX creates a more realistic and moody environment, making Skyrim’s visuals much more immersive, especially when it comes to exploration.
Ordinator – Perks of Skyrim
Overview: It overhauls the Perk system, adding hundreds of new perks to the various skill trees, and adds whole layers of customization and role-playing options.
Why Explore: Ordinator greatly improves depth and variety regarding skills for building truly unique characters for those interested.
Open Cities Skyrim
Overview: This mod removes loading screens while entering cities, allowing seamless walking into them from the outside world.
Why Explore: It makes Skyrim more immersive, creating it as more of an open world, and improves the flow of exploration.
Moonpath to Elsweyr
Summary: A quest mod that involves traversing the desert-like province of Elsweyr, a homeland of one of the ten core races in the world of ESO: the Khajiit. This mod adds new quests, environments, and lore.
Why Explore: For fans of Khajiit or for those fond of nothing more than the feeling of a new environment, Moonpath to Elsweyr offers something fresh and exotic outside of Skyrim’s snowy landscapes.
Apocalypse – Magic of Skyrim
Overview: This is a magic overhaul that involves more than 150 new spells in the video game, thereby making it an even better experience for mage characters. The spells are balanced and lore-friendly, fitting well into the game.
Why Explore: Apocalypse gives an entirely new and exciting range of play options for those who love to play mages or want more variety in their magic.
Immersive Armors & Immersive Weapons
Overview: These mods will add a great number of new lore-friendly armors and weapons into the game, thus giving more variety in how one chooses gear for gameplay.
Why Explore: They bring a bit of variation to Skyrim’s set of armor and weapons, all while maintaining an in-game feel.
Alternate Start – Live Another Life
Overview: Instead of starting as the Dragonborn, this mod allows you to have other alternatives at the start of your game, such as a shipwreck survivor or being part of a guild.
Why Explore: For players who do not want the normal Skyrim opening, this mod allows them to break free from the traditional Skyrim opening in an exciting new manner.
SkyUI
Overview: A UI overhaul that makes Skyrim’s menu system much more friendly and easy on the eyes, and adds to the sorting and display options of inventory items.
Why Explore: It modernizes the interface and greatly smooths out managing your character, equipment, and quests.
Inigo
Overview: A fully-voiced follower mod that adds Inigo, a companion Khajiit with an extensive backstory, witty dialogue, and an AI system unlike any other. He is far more personal with the player and to the other NPCs.
Why Investigate: For the adventurer who likes adventuring with followers, Inigo is perhaps one of the most fleshed-out and charismatic companions available.
Holds: The City Overhaul
Overview: This mod overhauls Skyrim’s cities and towns, making them far more visually distinctive and larger, fleshed out with new buildings, NPCs, and lore-correct architecture.
Why Install: If you want to feel like Skyrim’s cities are much more alive and interesting to explore, this mod overhauls their look and feel.