Best Mod Support In Fantasy Video Games

Mod support in gaming is becoming more and more prevalent as dedicated modders create content for their favorite games. Be it re-textures, graphical overhauls, new quests, or strange joke additions. These mods can range from small fixes to enormous content releases that even rival official content.

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One of the biggest areas of modded content is within the fantasy genre. A whole host of fantasy games have been modded extensively, with creators working tirelessly to add countless hours' worth of modded content. Be they survival, strategy, or RPGs, it is safe to say that fantasy games experience frequent modded content from their respective fan bases.

10 Total War: Warhammer 3

From Guns To Graphics

Total War: Warhammer 3 is the third installment in the Total War: Warhammer series, itself a sub-series of the far larger Total War series — a long-running real-time strategy series that balances tactics and a historical or fantastical setting (depending on the game).

Each Total War game has extensive modding scenes, but the already fantastical setting of Total War: Warhammer 3, along with the dedicated Warhammer fanbase, offers the most unique modding experience of the franchise. Players can utilize gunpowder units with the mod Guns of the Empire by Snek or enhance the lighting of the game using Ultimate Lighting 2.0 by Mazisky. Other mods include re-textures, new models, improved AI, and balancing tweaks.

9 Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord

Politics Have Never Been So Interesting

The Mount and Blade series combines strategy with action combat to form a fun and immersive fantasy battle experience. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord developed this formula and built upon its predecessor to modernize the franchise.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, much like the first Mount and Blade game, offers extensive modding support. These mods often enhance the mechanical depth of the game, like Diplomacy by The Diplomacy Team, which offers an expanded diplomacy system. Some mods act as large-scale overhauls to the game, adding more content and factions, thus enriching the already acclaimed formula. One example of this is Calradia at War by Anopey, offering 21 new factions, new political systems, hundreds of new units, and much more.

8 Terraria

Content Galore

Terraria combines inspired and artistic 2D graphics with an incredibly in-depth progression system to create a game beloved by players. Terraria presents players with a compelling fantasy world that, despite its simplicity on the surface, offers depth that very few games do.

The Terraria modding community is long-tenured and massive. The game even has its own mod loader, tModLoader on the Steam store page. Terraria has its fair share of quality-of-life mods centered around providing players with extra convenience that the base game lacks. An example of this is Boss Checklist by jopojelly, providing a checklist of what bosses are yet to be defeated. Convenience mods aside, it is unsurprising that Terraria also has plenty of large-scale conversion or expansion mods. Mods like Calamity by Fabsol offer further depth to the already deep experience, boasting over 24 additional bosses and nearly 2000 additional items.

7 The Witcher 3

Velen Has Never Looked So Good

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The Witcher 3 is a critically acclaimed title that couples a compelling narrative with a grand fantasy setting. Its open world is adored by players for its depth and scale, and the world itself is packed with memorable and layered characters to fall in love with.

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The modding community of The Witcher 3 is another that continues to thrive, having done so steadily since the game's launch in 2015. As expected with a game of this scale and magnitude, a lot of mods pertain to graphical fidelity. These may include enhanced lighting or higher-resolution textures, as seen in The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project by Halk Hogan PL — this mod in particular wholly enhances the Witcher 3 experience, increasing immersion and extending its lifespan for modern audiences. Other mods include quality-of-life changes to smooth out the gameplay experience, such as AutoLoot by JupiterTheGod.

6 Minecraft

Imagination Is The Only Limit

Few games have soared to the heights that Minecraft has in its lifespan. Gamers and non-gamers alike are familiar with Minecraft, and it continues to stand the test of time.

One secret to the longevity of Minecraft is its extensive modding scene, producing hundreds of modpacks that completely change the way the game is played. One such example is MC Eternal by Adam98991, which adds a series of hardcore survival mechanics and makes the game a lot more difficult (alongside including a number of hostile mobs and bosses). Modpacks such as Industrial Village by dreams01 allow for automation and technological advancement that fundamentally changes the core Minecraft loop, allowing for infinite creative possibilities.

5 Baldur's Gate 3

Convenience And Customization

Baldur's Gate 3 is the long-awaited third entry in the Baldur's Gate series, taking the gaming landscape by storm following its full release. It combines strategic gameplay with a compelling open-ended story to create a popular and authentic Dungeons and Dragons gaming experience.

Baldur's Gate 3 may not have a huge library of mods, but the mods it does have serve to add an extra layer of convenience and immersion to an already lovingly crafted experience. For players that prefer a more standard movement system, WASD Character Movement by Ch4nKyy allows players to use the WASD keys to move rather than point and click. Mods such as Eyes of the Beholder by labotor allow for an extra level of fantasy and immersion through more customization options.

4 Monster Hunter: World

A Focus On Quality of Life

Monster Hunter World is an entry in the popular Monster Hunter franchise. It's an expansive and mechanically complex game, featuring multi-tiered progression and killer boss fights.

The mod scene in Monster Hunter: World mostly focuses on improving the quality of life without compromising the depth and balance of the game. Souvenir's Light Pillar by Eisus2589 is a simple mod that changes souvenirs to appear as light beams, making them easier to see. A similar quality-of-life mod is SmartHunter-Overlay by r00telement, which adds an overlay that displays monster health, parts, status effects, and much more, providing a lot more information and transparency to the experience.

3 Dragon Age: Origins

An Immersive Experience

The Dragon Age series is popular for its immersive narrative and setting, presenting players with a deep fantasy world to get lost in. Dragon Age: Origins is no exception.

Mods for Dragon Age: Origins reflect this, as they often focus on improving character designs and the overall immersive feel of the game. Examples of this include Dragon Age Redesigned by Dracomies, an overhaul of NPCs to make them more realistic. Another example is Improved Atmosphere by SpaceAlex, a mod that serves to enhance immersion by overhauling ambient NPC behavior and outfitting them with a far wider range of items and equipment.

2 Elden Ring

A Difficulty For Everyone

Elden Ring is the most ambitious and deep FromSoftware game, touting the difficulty and complex bosses that players come to expect from the developer, alongside a rich open world with something to discover around every corner.

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The difficulty and scaling in question is the main focus for a lot of the Elden Ring mods. Elden Ring Reforged by Kirnifr is a mod that tackles the balance of Elden Ring to offer new gameplay opportunities, delivering new modes, an overhaul to magic, and the ability to change difficulty, alongside a number of other features. Similarly, Seamless Co-op by LukeYui provides a new way to play Elden Ring, adding fully functional and consistent co-op, along with scaling that reflects the increased player count.

1 The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim

A Modded Experience Like No Other

The Elder Scrolls series became a staple of the fantasy genre back when it made its debut in 1994. Subsequent entries did more of the same, constantly improving the formula. Despite this, no entry in the series reached the acclaim and fame of Skyrim.

Skyrim has managed to stay in the cultural zeitgeist since its release, due in part to the extensive and unparalleled mod support that allows players to craft their own Skyrim experience, be it UI overhauls like SkyUI by SkyUI Team or mega mods like Enderal by SureAI, a mod so large and distinct it got its own Steam release as a separate game. Singular mods, however, are just the tip of the iceberg, as curators assemble expansive modlists in order to entirely overhaul Skyrim from the ground up. Modlists like Nolvus by Vektor compile mods to drastically improve both the graphics and gameplay of Skyrim.

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