Now it’s your turn to boss people around how the tables have turned!īecome the High King and throw your weight around. No longer will you feel obliged to gallivant across Skyrim in pursuit of quests from other people. With this mod, you can become the most powerful in all the land. With great power comes great responsibility, or so we’ve heard.
This mod brings an old betting game from the 17 th century to your game. No adventurer spends all day, every day fighting for their life. No, we’re missing any fun pastimes in-game to mess with. From wherever you currently are to endgame, you’ll feel like the world is actually trying to actively kill you. High Level Enemies makes the game challenging again.
Bandits are, at most, level 25 for an average encounter later in the game. Level up high enough, and everything becomes kid’s play to your player character. Most games get harder to play as you level up, Skyrim seems to do the opposite. This mod does an amazing job of creating realistic flames, and it also works wonders on your fire-based magic attacks, too. HD Fire Effects is purely for the awful-looking fire in your workshop. There are a couple of other fire modifications further down this list for campfires and fireplaces in taverns.
It’s a harsh mod, and you’ll need a capable PC to run it. Making the sunlight and starlight look almost too real. The creator of this mod re-created the entire lighting system of the game. From better sunsets, to clouds that look like actual clouds, this mod adds thousands of effects. Climates of Tamriel takes what exists in your game’s world already, and makes it look more authentic. Skyrim always needs a little extra weather modification.
Who needs to go outside when the sun is so perfect in your game that you can practically feel it? We jest, of course. When you combine Real Vision ENB with any number of other mods on this list, you can easy create a realistic world for your player character to live in. It produces some tremendous effects, and works well with the next mod on our list: Climates of Tamriel. Real Vision is one of Skyrim’s most famous and popular modifications. Even a novice modder couldn’t mess this one up. You can configure this mod by messing with post-processing effects, such as tonemap and technicolor.Įverything is easily adjustable via a slider system. You won’t be needing it anymore.įXAA Injector shoves a ton of new script into your game to create better images that are clearer and more vibrant. Put the controller away, keyboard and mouse lovers. SkyUI rebuilds the interface from the ground up, making it more user-friendly for players that are using their computer, rather than a console. However, with this mod, you get a completely new user interface that works better for PC gamers. Skyrim is a great PC game but there are some elements that make it obvious that it was never supposed to be a PC game. There’s a lite version, too! So even those of you with less powerful computers can benefit from this mod. You’ll get four times the amount of textures that you get from the original game, and everything from the ground up will get a lovely rework. Though this mod applies amazing textures to pretty much everything in your Skyrim game, there are other mods that focus on particular aspects of the game (like the glaciers or the grass).ĢK Textures is a good start to your modding adventure. 2K TexturesĢK Textures gives you a huge range of textures for your game up to 4K resolution. Get rid of the obvious seams that lie between two objects that meet and watch as your world becomes just a bit brighter. Your computer’s performance might be affected by this mod, just because of all of the extra data inside it, but if your system can handle a bigger mod, then it’s worth it. All of those strange edges and weird-looking objects will suddenly look a lot more natural.
This mod works wonders on making everything look less blocky and awkward. Static Mesh Improvement is all about smoothing out your Skyrim world. The Unofficial Skyrim Patch is a mod that is regularly updated to fix any and all of the bugs that players find in the Skyrim world.ĭespite heavy patching from the original game team, this mod is well-known for fixing all of the other mistakes and mishaps that weren’t caught during the years the game was still being fixed up. Not great for first-time players and it can be pretty off-putting. Skyrim is a bit of a dated game, and as such, it’s a tad buggy. We advise that you add this mod while you’re adding in any others to keep your game going. For anyone who’s about to start adding modifications to their Skyrim game, you’ll want to add in the Skyrim Script Extender to help your game handle the new commands and graphics.