1. The Great Cities
This mod focuses on improving the look and feel of each of Skyrim’s main cities. It’s perfect for those players who might have gotten bored after playing for so long.
This also adds merchants to the game, which provides some exciting new dynamics. Overall this mod gives players the perfect excuse to dive back into Skyrim and start exploring again!
2. H.A.S.T.E.
H.A.S.T.E. essentially gives you the game you should have had when you first bought Skyrim. It fixes some of the issues that shipped with the game, such as an animal’s ability to report a crime, and focuses on making the Skyrim experience that much more streamlined.
3. Animation Rings
With this mod enabled, you’ll be able to find animation rings in a game that, once equipped, will provide you with some new animations for your character. Press the sneak button to see your new animation in action. This mod is perfect for people who want a more immersive story-telling experience or people who like to screenshot certain Skyrim scenarios.
4. Mirage – Summoned Mount
This mod is excellent for those who don’t want to worry about their horse when they are adventuring. Equipping this mod and heading to the Drunken Huntsman will allow you to find a spell tome that will give your character the ability to conjure a ghost-like horse.
It disappears when not in use and returns when re-summoned with the spell. It’s also speedy, so it makes exploration of Skyrim’s large world a breeze.
5. Mage Grip Spell
A modification on the vampiric grip spell here will allow all mages to use the grip spell. The animation is powerful, and it’s sure to add some exciting new elements to your mage combat.
6. Effective Blocking
It fixes the issue of sword and shield combinations effectiveness so that now using the two can help in close-quarter combat scenarios. With this mod, shields in the game feel not only necessary now, but fun to use too.
7. Modified Inns City and Town
Like The Great Cities mod listed above, this focuses more on the interior of the inns and taverns around Skyrim. This mod gives those locations a fresh new look that feels more authentic to a true Skyrim experience.
8. Crypt Of The Old Guard – Vampire Player Home
A great addition to your vampire playthrough, this player home is beautifully designed and well thought through. It adds to your story-telling experience and is a nice touch to the game.
9. Magical College Of Winterhold
Anybody who has played through the College of Winterhold will know that it lacks in certain areas. This mod adds a real magical feel to the college, and it benefits the story you can tell here for your character.
10. Dense Grass
A simple addition in theory, but powerful in practice! Dense Grass adds beautiful foliage to the game, making the experience so much more immersive and visually impressive.
11. The Midden – Expanded
This mod adds a network of dungeons and areas below the College of Winterhold for you to explore. This acts as an expansion to exciting new challenges, bosses, and rewards to loot. This is perfect for those players looking for something new and exciting to do in Skyrim after spending so many hours exploring already.
12. Heterochromia Complete
Eye color in Skyrim has always been a point of contention for those true RPG lovers out there. This mod adds hundreds of color varieties that work seamlessly in the game, allowing you to create more diverse characters than ever before!
13. Beast Race Hair Overhaul
The restrictive hair options of beast races are fixed with this mod. It’s all the usual hair you see in the human races just ported over for use on beasts now. This is great for those wanting to customize their beast characters a little more and works without issue.
14. Supreme Storms – Special Edition
While traveling through Skyrim, you want to feel like you face the weather hardships of a rough landscape. This mod increases the intensity of snowstorms to create an authentic feel to them. Characters truly feel as though they are traveling in harsh conditions now.
15. Scholar’s Eye
This is one of those mods that makes the practicality of the game that much more impressive. A magical glow will appear around books that can teach your character something, so you no longer have to waste time on books that add no real value to your character’s experience.
16. Rain And Snow FX
Rain and Snow FX adds yet more realism to the weather in Skyrim. With this mod enabled, your character will show signs of being out in the rain or snow on their clothing, making the game that much more realistic.
17. Realm Of Lorkhan – Custom Alternate Start
If you’re the sort of player that has started and restarted Skyrim so many times over that you can picture that execution and that carriage ride in your sleep, then this mod is perfect for you.
Creating a whole new opening to the game, exciting new areas to explore, and some nifty new mechanics that directly impact how your character starts is perfect for those looking for something new.
18. Re-Color Replacer Pack
Popular Armor sets will be re-colored using this mod so that you can give your old characters a fresh new look and one that is visually more impressive than the Armor that shipped with the game. With brighter colors, better textures, and more eye-catching at first glance, this mod is great for people wanting to improve the look of their game.
19. Horse Riding First Person
For players who prefer to play Skyrim in the first person, the lack of first-person horse riding animations might have been a frustration for you and your preferred playstyle. Thankfully, this mod fixes that, and the first person horse riding animations offered here are surprisingly bug-free and immersive.
20. Summonable Dwarven Automaton
This mod allows the players to use Dwarven Automaton as a companion as opposed to an enemy. Summoning them to fight alongside you in combat is a great addition and adds many fun new combat scenarios to your game.
