Vampires are one of the fascinating enemies featured in Skyrim. The vampire gameplay is compelling and engaging for low-level players but becomes pretty boring as you progress in the game. That is about to change as we dig deeper into the most engrossing mods that will take your vampire gameplay to a whole new level.
The Best Vampire Mods in Skyrim:
1. Sacrosanct – Vampires of Skyrim
It is an exceptional vampire mod that offers a refined blood-sucking experience. The gameplay improvement was masterfully crafted to make the mod 300% bigger and rewarding.
It features hemomancy, a vampiric blood magic tool that allows you to drain a sleeping victim. In newer versions, your hemomancy experience will be taken further because it is incorporated in an amazing quest. Vampire lords can enjoy the featured powerful spell, such as Raze and Lord’s Servant, which allows you to bring back to life one corpse for 60 seconds.
Whatever race you play in Skyrim, you will surely get an auxiliary vampire ability that is unique and exciting. An Argonian will have a Jeweled Scale, which is an ability that allows the player to swim under the sunlight. The protection even lasts for 180 seconds after leaving the water.
Dunmers will get the Tainted Blood, which allows them to acquire a vampire’s racial ability after feeding on them. Even in human form, vampires will be able to levitate and walk above water. Unlike all other vampire mods, Sacrosanct will not only provide you amazing gameplay because it also defines the essence of being a vampire. It will allow you to experience what it really feels like to become a creature of the night.
2. The Shrouded Lair – A Vampire Home
Your vampire experience will not be complete if you don’t live in a dark and creepy castle. The lair is a suitable player home where you can enjoy an eternal night without fearing the sun, even outdoors. Unlike any other vampire castles, you will have the freedom to open your windows for all eternity.
If you’re ready to claim this vampire secret place, you may do so by traveling to the waterfall above Falkreath. Simply walk through the waterfall to reach The Shrouded Lair. You will be welcomed by a poisonous garden in the gore exterior of the castle. As you enter your new lair, you will see the massive place packed with rooms, chambers, a huge library, lounge, pond, sleeping coffins, and even a unique dungeon.
Traversing the castle will come easy as well as it features unique books that will help you reach any part of the castle in an instant. As the castle lord, you get a throne room and a spell that will allow you to travel anywhere in Skyrim and then back in no time. This castle is the complete package, for it even has a torture chamber where you can feed on the caged prisoners.
3. Hassildor – Player Home for Vampires
The House of Hassildor is an abandoned home of an ancient family celebrated for their fortune and power throughout Tamriel. As the family no longer holds power in the realm, their home is now deserted and waiting for its new master.
It is such a huge manor that you can gather and even move all your belongings in this marvelous piece of a place. Hassildor features plenty of storage, beds for followers, a dog follower with a spell, vampire armor and sword, and unique boat travel.
Whether you have a male or female character, the armor will work all the same for both genders. The weapons that come with it can also be improved with smithing.
4. Ravenholm – Last Vigil Vampire House
The Skyrim modding community has created astounding works that make the game all the more interesting. Ravenholm is one of those beautifully crafted homes designed especially for the creatures of the night.
If Hassildor is too big for your liking, then Ravenholm might suit you better. It a simple house but complete with a nice feature that any vampire would need and more. The architectural design of this vampire home is inspired by the sinister Castle Volkihar.
It features every single crafting for vanilla, customized storage and wardrobe, switchable bed or coffin, follower bed, and a jail with a prisoner that you can feed on.
5. DVA – Dynamic Vampire Appearance
Now, let’s go back to the tactical aspects of the game. This amazing mod transforms the appearance of vampires to graphically reflect the varied aspects of vampire life.
It is an immersive mod wherein vampire eyes flicker in battle, and blood realistically remains around the mouth after each feed. These unique features create a distinctive mood that makes you feel your character as it starves for blood. It is an easy to customize mod that can work with other vampire mods as well.
6. Bloodthirst – Vampire NPCs Can Feed
To plunge deeply into the vampire gameplay, why not give every vampire, including NPCs, the ability to feed on characters just like every individual player in the game. Once you have this installed, the NPC will then spontaneously pick up its victim in the night to feed.
The virtuous vampires will not feed on friends, though, and all others will naturally not feed on other vampires or essential characters.
7. Disciple of Molag Bal – Demonic Voiced Vampire Lord
To make the vampire gameplay even more atmospheric, install this vampire sound overhaul mod and prepare to shudder in the intensified dark conditions of the vampire realm.
It took out all the sound effects in place and changed it to something more terrifying. Spells, Attacks, sun damage, and more will never sound the same again.
8. Volkihar Knight – Vampire Armor
It’s now time to procure an armor pack fitting for a blood-sucking creature of the night. The armor pack comes in three unique legendary variations; all fitted seamlessly into the game. The royal guard cuirass armor pack will grant a 10% chance to toss melee attackers, causing them to drop their health by 20pts for 4 seconds.
The abyss walker cuirass armor pack will serve as your protection as you walk in sunlight. It can also drain your enemy’s stamina, Magicka, and health if they’re nearby. The assassin cuirass armor pack can grant you invisibility by transforming you into smoke and shadow. It is a sneaky and powerful armor that can turn you into a real vampire assassin.
The Legendary armor can be obtained by confronting Harkon in the Volkihar Cathedral. By defeating Harkon in the Kindred Judgement quest, you will get the armor as a reward for your valor. It is a unique armor pack as it can not be crafted, but it is upgradeable and enchantable. This is a great mod and is fully compatible with other great vampire overhaul mods.
9. Raziel Vampire Armor
In addition to Volkihar Knight, Raziel Vampire Armor is yet another great mod that will add vampire armors to your collection. If you’ve seen the intro movie of Soul Reaver on PlayStation 1, then you would be familiar with the armor that Raziel was wearing.
The unique gothic armor will become available in this mod and comes in two different versions that will fit your style—the light armor for warrior type character and clothing for mage type character. Armor and clothing are made usable for all vanilla races with an original design that you’ll never see anywhere in Skyrim.
10. Lustmord Vampire Armor
If you’re looking for an alluring armor pack for your female character, then look no further because this mod will make your wishes come true and more. It offers a standalone and customizable armor pack with unique features.
And you don’t have to be a vampire to get it. It is, although extremely vampiric and will need to drink blood to acquire power. Overall, it is the sexiest outfit that you can procure for your female character in Skyrim.
11. Vampire Leather Armor Set
The black leather style has been a theme for vampires for ages, and it is so cool that the theme invaded Skyrim as well. Unlike Lustmord, the Vampire Leather Armor Set exposes more skin on female characters allowing them to look sexier than ever.
If you dream of becoming a vampire seductress, then this mod is for you. It will transform your character into a ravishing beauty that will never fail to delight your eye.
12. Better Vampire Weapons
Contrary to its name, the mod is more of a mysteriously challenging quest that will give you an option to either stop the vampire attacks or utilize the new weapons for your own orchestrations.
It adds more secret locations all over Skyrim. Better Vampire Weapons also features vampire lairs, dens, fortresses, and new weapons and enchantments that are unique only to this mod.
13. Better Vampire NPCs
With this mod, the vampire NPCs will never be the same again. It overhauls the NPC vampires making them better with additional perks and abilities. The mod added variety to the vampire gameplay by making it more challenging and exciting.
