The Top 5 Most Modded Games of All Time

[gisselletdean]

I got this from Infographic. I tried to follow their sources, but they were circular. I therefore cannot vouch for this list, and I know that it is missing one very modded game, so just consider this a starting point for discussion. It is, at least, more accurate than the several sites I saw that listed Skyrim as #1. They seemed to be just opinion lists.

5. Skyrim
4. Doom
3. Half-Life
2. GMOD
1. Minecraft

From what I found, Skyrim has 70,000 mods on Nexus and 28,000 mods (probably duplicates) on Steam Workshop. However, Planet Coaster has 399,939 mods on Steam Workshop. Curse Forge lists just over 100,000 Minecraft mods (the vast majority of which don't work on the current Minecraft edition), so I'm guessing that Planet Coaster is actually the most modded game of all time. But that's just a guess.

One cool note about this list is that 7 Half-Life mods became stand alone games. That's pretty impressive.

[gisselletdean]

Besides the general aesthetics of a game being modded, what's your purpose or need to mod a game?

[capabilitieso]

I've probably spent more hours modding Skyrim than actually playing it. Tweaking graphics, adding new quests, even turning dragons into Thomas the Tank Engine—it just never gets old.

[capabilitieso]

I’ve definitely spent the most time modding Minecraft out of all games. Between shaders, texture packs, and all the random survival and tech mods, it’s super easy to lose track of time. Lately, I’ve been messing around with shaders from https://minecraftshader.com/mc/minec...-21-5-shaders/ and it’s wild how much better everything looks, even without changing anything else. Makes the game feel fresh again.