What are the best games to mod?
What are the best games to mod?
Like the title. What games are made better with mods, and foster a great modding scene that retains momentum and delivers excellent content?
My personal favorite is Fallout: New Vegas, but games like DOOM, Half-Life 2 (really all source engine games), and Minecraft have extremely unique mod scenes. Of course, Skyrim remains a modding titan. STALKER: Anomaly is already an amazing mod project and has mod lists for it like GAMMA.
What are your favorites?
Even after all these years, Morrowind still has an active scene.
Terraria is another mod-friendly game that is still active.
Tamriel Rebuilt is genuinely mind-blowing, same with OpenMW as a project.
Sometimes I spend more time modding rimworld than i do actually playing it
If it's fun, why worry about how it was spent?
This was me with Skyrim.
I don't know any that are as big as Bethesda games or Minecraft modding scenes, not even close, but FromSoftware games tend to have some really big mods that changes lots of stuff, never got to play any of them other than a bit of one that recently came out for DS3, but is something I want to do after I'm done with Shadow of the Erdtree.
Other than that Valheim seems to have some interesting ones too. Guilty Gear Strive have a lot of alt colors/costumes you can mod into the game.
Oh a big one is The Binding of Isaac, there is a shit ton of mods on the Steam Workshop, I tend to use a lot of non-gameplay mods there. The modding scene in this one is unique and tends to be quite friendly. There's a lot of fun and quality work on there.
The Valheim modding scene is really picking up steam. On thunderstore I've seen some mods that would allow for an mmo-rpg experience with classes and npcs, alongside with the usual: more enemy types, weapons, and armor.
slay the spire mods are pretty fun, i love the characters that the community creates. some of them are anime/touhou related but others make some unique (and silly) ones as well. yomi hustle also has a very big modding scene especially for adding custom characters, theyre pretty cool but i havent messed around with it much
Ohhh, haven't seen that mod scene yet! I'll have to check it out later.
Project Reality for Battlefield 2 is stand alone now, same with Stalker Lost Alpha, two mods I've played around with and enjoyed.
Project Reality has come such a long way, I remember trying to play it with a couple buddies years and years and years ago.
I've only messed around with it versus some ai in single player, I should try and find a good coop server to play on with some people. The AI in BF 2 is kind of pants on head and it detracts from the fun.
minecraft and factorio have some of my favourite mods
Mount & Blade has great mods. I only recently got around to playing Bannerlord and haven't modded it much yet, but I played Warband for hundreds of hours with and without mods
Edit: haven't played it in years now, but Ark was a very fun game to mod. Like holy shit there were so many amazing mods for that game around 2015 or so
Sadly Bannerlord doesn't really have any noteworthy finished mods yet because the game didn't get into a stable state until very recently. The Warhammer one is "playable" for certain definitions of the word, and added in a pretty neat combat magic system. I think the higher fidelity is really slowing modders down too.
I came here to post Morrowind but it's already been mentioned so I'll give a shout out to ARMA 3. I don't think anyone even plays that game without mods.
I don't think anyone even plays that game without mods.
I did at first then I modded it later after I exhausted all the single player stuff
Subnautica's got a small modding scene, but it's mods are pretty good
The subnautica MP mod (not updated to the latest version) is incredibly fun
The older Total War games have a ton of great mods, Medieval 2 in particular. There's a ton of amazing mods, both historical (like The Italian Wars for pike-and-shot action) and fantasy (like the LOTR mod, Third Age: Total War).
The various Paradox grand strategy games are great too.
Dwarf fortress modding is very easy to learn
I had a personal adventure mode mod that added a ton of reactions for the player to use: butcher any corpse, leather curing and crafting, bone crafting, weapon sharpening, item decorating. Also changed necromancers to different elemental magic schools, each with their own set of spells to unlock via tome/slab
I had another that removed all the fantasy races and creatures, then split up humans by biome into the standard western fantasy trope races (Northmen, steppe riders, desert people, marsh people etc), each with their own distinct appearances, clothing/armor/weapon styles, cultural preferences, and even custom conlangs based on real world language groups
KSP, Minecraft, Rimworld
FTL Faster Than Light - Captain's Edition, Station Jobs, Multiverse overhaul mods
Battletech - Battltech Advanced 3062
Skater XL
Assetto Corsa
tale of two wastelands!! why settle for new Vegas when you can have more!
Also Mothership Zeta Crew.
Doom will always be the GOAT
Not seen much doom modding, but MyHouse.wad is impressive stuff.
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Total Annihilation has an incredible mod scene.
Star Sector and Battlebrothers both have mountains of mods.