

The Steam Workshop makes it easy to install and activate mods, and the more advanced ones are simply added to a special folder. If you’ve never modded before, there’s nothing to worry about when it comes to modding Skyrim. And, best of all, every one of these Skyrim mods is free! No wonder there’s been over one billion mod downloads between Skyrim and Fallout. They’ll make the vanilla 2011-released game look better than even the 2016 Special Edition version. We’ve put together a comprehensive list of the 100 mods we think are essential to improving Skyrim above and beyond the out-the-box experience. But when you’re looking for Skyrim mods, where do you start? Or they’re just out to transform farmyard animals into deadly explosives. They’re the work of a thriving and diverse scene an army of fans and bedroom coders determined to make the game a photorealistic fantasy.

This is because there’s a lot of them: more than 28,000 Skyrim mods to download on the Steam Workshop, and countless more on Skyrim Nexus. This also guarantees that all content works together.It can be a tough job finding the best Skyrim mods. All the content is approved, curated, and taken through the full internal dev cycle including localization, polishing, and testing.
Most of the Creation Club content is created internally, some with external partners who have worked on our games, and some by external Creators. Also, we won’t allow any existing mods to be retrofitted into Creation Club, it must all be original content. Mods will remain a free and open system where anyone can create and share what they’d like. Bethesda's VP Pete Hines also defended the CC, stating that it's similar to DLC, but not really DLC. The launch of the Fallout 4 Creation Club sparked a bit of a controversy, with some feeling that the Creation Club content should have been part of the game's Season Pass. Credits can be purchased in packs of various sizes, and you’ll receive a discount on larger packs. Using Creation Club is easy – browse the selection in-game by category and use Credits to download the content.

Content is fully curated and compatible with the main game and official add-ons. Get Credits to be used in Creation Club – a collection of all-new game content for Skyrim Special Edition. The game has yet to receive an update to allow players to access it, but it probably won't take much longer. A few hours ago, the Skyrim Special Edition Creation Club page has gone live on Steam.
