Skyrim mods make millions in a month – Game News

Despite The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition being old at the moment, mods for the game are currently enjoying unprecedented popularity, achieving impressive popularity results.

– Game News has prepared an interesting review showing the incredible growth in popularity of mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. Despite the fact that almost six years have passed since the release of the game, its mods are currently enjoying record success.

1. In January this year, gamers downloaded 113 million mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition a NexusModsthe biggest website with mods for the game. Last month’s result was a bit lower, just under 90 million, but still an incredibly impressive number.
2. Most impressive is the fact that the results have steadily increased since the game launched in October 2017. In November of the same year, only 10 million mods for Skyrim Special Edition were uploaded.
3. The number of mods released is also increasing. At the end of last year, an average of 50 new files for Skyrim Special Edition were released every day (this number includes both new mods and updates from previous projects).
4. Currently, more than 60,000 mods are available on Nexus, which have been downloaded more than 2.2 billion times in total.

Graph showing the growth in the number of mod downloads for Skyrim Special Edition. image source Nexus.

It is clear that despite its age, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is currently experiencing a golden period in terms of mods. They are, by the way, one of the reasons why the game is still very popular: yesterday on Steam, at the hottest hour of the day, the game was played by 23,000 concurrent users, which is a result than most locations can dream of. of.

Instead, the popularity of mods for the original The Elder Scrolls V has waned in recent years. This, however, is not surprising – the majority of modders and gamers have long since switched to the Special Edition.