Skyrim gets Dishonored-style gameplay in incredible new mod

Skyrim players will soon be able to enjoy a completely new way to play the game thanks to this mod that puts Dishonored-style gameplay into the game.

A modder that goes by the name of Tanner has shared a few videos to their YouTube channel over the past few days, showing off their upcoming mod which puts Dishonored powers and movement into Skyrim as a native mod.

At the moment, it only exists as a proof of concept, but Tanner hopes to have the mod enter alpha stage soon for those who want to try it for themselves.

Mods that mashup two or more games have been all the rage lately thanks to new AI tools released recently which allow modders to do this. While these mashups have been dismissed by the gaming community as “vibecoded slop”, Tanner shared in a previous video that this mod isn’t that, and is running natively in Skyrim.

Skyrim meets Dishonored at last in this brand new mod

The latest video takes place in Solitude, where the player character stands on a rooftop brandishing Corvo Attano’s iconic folding blade and Outsider’s Mark. The video then shows them jumping off the building and breaking the fall by stabbing a guard down below.

We then see the character using the power Blink to zip around the rooftops of Whiterun, before they engage in combat against some guards.

The video also demonstrates a few more of Corvo’s powers being used in Skyrim. The player uses Devouring Swarm to summon a load of rats that attack the guards, as well as Windblast that sends out a shockwave that knocks guards over and temporarily stuns them.

We end the video by catching a glimpse of the player using Bend Time to freeze all enemies in their tracks, so they can kill them one-by-one without them reacting.

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Tanner

As we said earlier, this doesn’t appear to be a vibe-coded passthrough mod which basically runs two games on top of each other and combines the results (for example, putting the gameplay of Minecraft into GTA V).

Tanner says that this is running as a native mod inside Skyrim, and this isn’t the first mod of this type that they’ve created.

The modder is also working on a mod which replaces Skyrim’s movement system with the locomotion, animations and physics from the original Assassin’s Creed. They’ve also got a mod which adds Mirror’s Edge-style movement into the game as well.

Altogether, it seems that Tanner is pretty keen to add all manner of movement styles and gameplay from Xbox 360-era games into Skyrim. As for the Dishonored mod, it seems to just be the first game’s powers that are available for now, but it’s possible that future updates could also bring in abilities from Dishonored 2 and Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.

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