Nearing the tenth anniversary of the release of ESV: Skyrim (11-11-11 to 11-11-21), I still recommend this game. What makes it infinitely re-playable are mods. There are thousands of mods available for SSE on sites like https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition. People new to modding understandably face a lot of confusion. But there are a lot of guides out there on how to get started. The easiest and most comprehensive way is with Wabbajack.

Tools like Wabbajack (Wabbajack.org) offer completely stress free modding for people who don't know anything about modding, making modding your game in a comprehensive way simple. The modpacks on Wabbajack are extensively tested and work well, it is pretty much a one button install. The SSE selection for Wabbajack has something for everyone. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

For the more experienced user, there are extremely complex mod guides like Dark Lady Lexy's Legend of the Dragonborn Special Edition (lexyslotd.com). This requires a lot of technical skill, no doubt about it, but the results are extraordinary. Beautiful graphics, loads of new quests, NPC's a new perk system, I could go on and on, it basically changes most every aspect of the game in some way, making Skyrim a deeper, richer experience. But very much not easy, very technical, fairly time consuming.

Any way you mod it, Skyrim is still worth playing ten years later. Mods breathe new life into an old game. And they remind us that Bethesda used to be a halfway decent game company.

Nearing the tenth anniversary of the release of ESV: Skyrim (11-11-11 to 11-11-21), I still recommend this game. What makes it infinitely re-playable are mods. There are thousands of mods available for SSE on sites like https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition. People new to modding understandably face a lot of confusion. But there are a lot of guides out there on how to get started. The easiest and most comprehensive way is with Wabbajack. Tools like Wabbajack (Wabbajack.org) offer completely stress free modding for people who don't know anything about modding, making modding your game in a comprehensive way simple. The modpacks on Wabbajack are extensively tested and work well, it is pretty much a one button install. The SSE selection for Wabbajack has something for everyone. Super easy, barely an inconvenience. For the more experienced user, there are extremely complex mod guides like Dark Lady Lexy's Legend of the Dragonborn Special Edition (lexyslotd.com). This requires a lot of technical skill, no doubt about it, but the results are extraordinary. Beautiful graphics, loads of new quests, NPC's a new perk system, I could go on and on, it basically changes most every aspect of the game in some way, making Skyrim a deeper, richer experience. But very much not easy, very technical, fairly time consuming. Any way you mod it, Skyrim is still worth playing ten years later. Mods breathe new life into an old game. And they remind us that Bethesda used to be a halfway decent game company.