The best Skyrim quest mods are ones which add loads of immersive new content to expand the game’s depth.
Almost 15 years on from the original release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the game still amasses thousands of players each day.
The game’s survivability, and the fact that it still remains popular today, is largely in part due to the sheer amount of custom content created by fans which get uploaded to the internet each day.
While you wait for The Elder Scrolls VI, here are eight of the best Skyrim mods which we believe are the best use of your time.
The Forgotten City
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Time to Beat: 6–8 hours
The award-winning The Forgotten City adds a new questline to Skyrim lasting approximately eight hours. It’s a murder mystery set in an underground Dwemer city, featuring a non-linear storyline and time-travel at its centre to help you solve it.
The Forgotten City does a great job at keeping you in the dark for much of its runtime, encouraging you to keep peeling back layers by interrogating suspects, discovering secrets, and navigating challenging moral dilemmas. There are also multiple endings, over 1200 lines of dialogue, and an original orchestral score.
Sirenroot - Deluge of Deceit
Time to Beat: 6–8 hours
Sirenroot is a mod influenced by games like Tomb Raider and Dragon Age, adding a new dungeon with plenty of emphasis on climbing and verticality.
There’s also a focus on water mechanics, so you’ll be doing a lot of swimming, diving, and water control to explore the dungeon and solve its various puzzles, all while following a story that features branching storylines and multiple endings.
Lordbound
Time to Beat: 40–60 hours
Now we’re getting into the meaty mods, the ones which add dozens of hours of fresh content. Lordbound is one such mod, adding an expansion-sized amount of quests and activities to play through.
Lordbound adds in a brand new region to explore, the land of Druadach, and is filled with plenty of new quests, dungeons, events and activities for you to enjoy. These quests have different choices to make with their own consequences, completely changing the fate of the land.
Enderal: Forgotten Stories
Time to Beat: 50–100 hours
Probably one of the biggest mods to ever exist for Skyrim, Enderal is a standalone creation with its own world, lore, characters and gameplay. While not linked to The Elder Scrolls at all besides its engine and commonly shared features, it’s still something we’d recommend playing for fans of the game.
Featuring a vast open world, deep main quest, and plenty of side content to dig your teeth into, Enderal’s appeal is the pure novelty of seeing an Elder Scrolls-sized game created purely by fans, for fans. And the best thing of all, it’s completely free to play if you own a copy of the original The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (it’s sadly not compatible with the Special Edition).
Wyrmstooth
Time to Beat: 3–6 hours
Wyrmstooth adds a new island to explore, along with a lengthy quest which takes you to the foreboding island of the same name in pursuit of a dragon which is disrupting trade routes.
Its big appeal is the setting, which takes on a more unique appearance and vibe when compared to many locations which appear in the vanilla version of Skyrim. The new music and voice acting added with the mod are the icing on the cake, offering a high-quality narrative that fits well with the game’s lore.
Clockwork
Time to Beat: 6–8 hours
Clockwork is a moderate DLC-sized adventure with a main questline split into four parts. It involves venturing to the mysterious Clockwork Castle located high in the Velothi Mountains, which has since been lost to time.
The mod adds two massive dungeons to explore, along with the castle itself, with new NPCs and enemies. Altogether, it’s a nice little side distraction to enjoy with some interesting storytelling, a fine addition to Skyrim’s large amount of content.
Death Consumes All
Time to Beat: 20–30 hours
A deadly plague is spreading across the land of Skyrim, and only you have the power to stop it. Death Consumes All adds a massive new questline to the game that fits in alongside the game’s vanilla content, where you make choices that shapes the fate of the region and the characters who appear within it.
Death Consumes All makes an emphasis on choices and player agency, giving you plenty of roleplaying opportunities and multiple endings. However, its unique infection mechanic that simulates a real epidemic, where characters can dynamically transmit the plague to others, is what makes it worth checking out.
The Paarthurnax Dilemma
Time to Beat: 30–60 minutes
If you’ve played enough Skyrim to get to the end of the main quest, you’ll probably recall a quest that involves the Blades asking you to kill Paarthurnax for his previous actions. While you don’t actually have to go through with it, the quest itself remains in your quest log until you do so, which can be a little frustrating.
The Paarthurnax Dilemma fixes this quest by giving Paarthurnax a second chance, allowing you to actively decide to spare the dragon and try to convince the Blades that it was the right action. It’s a small change, but adds some more depth to the game’s ending.
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