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The Best Houses in Skyrim Ranked. Choosing the best house in Skyrim can really be down to personal preference. We've tried to take in the pros and cons of each house to rank them. Location: Raven Rock, Solstheim. Upgrade Cost: N/A. This is a decent sized house and is awarded after completing the quest 'Served. It's in the perfect spot for a house, The Reach, away from most of all of Skyrim and isn't in a perpetual snow storm which most house mods are. It also has a lot of rooms for my followers and a good size trophy room, it even has a children's bedroom if I ever want to adopt them, and mostly it's not too big or also not too small.

With all the focus on re-releases, MMOs, and card games in The Elder Scrolls universe lately, it seems like a long wait is ahead before we get a true single-player sequel to Skyrim.

Honestly, there's no need to really ever leave the frozen Skyrim expanse, though, as hundreds of thousands of mods out there can keep you coming back for years to come.

The biggest of these radically change the game to such a degree that they qualify as total conversions -- a mythical status of mods that has given the gaming community such gems as DotA, Counter-Strike, Day Z, and Garry's Mod in the past.

Currently, most of the Skyrim total conversion mod projects aren't actually finished, or even in a state worth downloading yet. There are a handful that you can lose yourself in right now, however, giving your favorite Skyrim character whole new worlds to explore.

Sadly, you won't be finding any of these on PS4, and most won't be available to Xbox One due to console mod restrictions. Sorry folks, but total conversions are frequently PC-only territory. Now fire up that Nexus Mod Manager and get on downloading these awesome conversions!

Enderal: The Shards Of Order

If there's one Skyrim mod that best stands as an example of what is possible to achieve with a total overhaul, it would easily be Enderal. The mod presents an entirely new world with its own characters, lore, races, and history completely separate from The Elder Scrolls universe, even featuring all-new voice acting.

Enderal takes place in the land of Vyn and serves as the sequel to the previous Oblivion total overhaul mod, Nehrim. Much like with the base Skyrim, you could easily sink 80 or more hours into Enderal, exploring every nook and cranny and finding all the various quests and characters.

If you like the idea of an open-world RPG like Skyrim but aren't keen on the dumbed-down RPG elements or the story-lite approach, Enderal is frankly a better experience than the base game, with a more compelling story.

Beyond Skyrim: Bruma

The massive Beyond Skyrim project seeks to add all the lands of Tamriel into the Skyrim experience. Instead of only being able to explore within the borders of the game's namesake nation, this gigantic work-in-progress will eventually add in Morrowind, Elswyr, Atmora, Iliac Bay, and many other locations across the continent.

That's sort of an Elder Scrolls fanatic's dream come true, although it still remains a dream for now. At the moment, most of these mods are still very much in-progress affairs, but Bruma is now fully available for download, letting your Skyrim character explore locations like Frostcrag Spire, Cloud Ruler Temple, and Frostfire Glade.

The city of Bruma itself features a huge cast of additional characters with their own quests and voice acting, drastically expanding out the base game. What you get now is already pretty amazing, but when the entire set of mods is done, Beyond Skyrim is going to be jaw-dropping.

Vigilant

Bringing a whole lot of Darks Souls or Bloodborne influence into The Elder Scrolls, this mod adds in four new chapters, complete with new areas that play with the concept of the Vigilants of Stendarr standing against the forces of Oblivion.

Each chapter builds on the last, pulling you in and constantly increasing in quality and length. A little over halfway through, the Vigilant mod basically goes full throttle into horror, providing a very different experience than your standard Skyrim playthrough.

Yes, there are also devastatingly hard bosses like you'd expect from a Dark Souls-styled mod, so get ready to rethink your character build after dying the first few (dozen?) times!

Falksaar

More lore-friendly than Enderal while still taking some liberties with the Elder Scrolls storyline, Falksaar adds in an extra 20-30 hours of gameplay, with completely new areas, dozens of quests, and fully voiced characters to discover.

A whole lot of work went into this one, with an entirely new soundtrack created just for Falksaar, along with a bunch of new items, spells, and even shouts arriving along with the new area.

If you need ever-more areas to explore and dungeons to delve into, Falksaar has got more than enough to keep you occupied for hours while waiting on other total conversions to get finished.

Beyond Reach

Although this mod isn't quite done yet, it is much farther along than other mods of its scale and can currently be downloaded and played. You essentially get an unofficial DLC here, with a vast new area in the east of High Rock and a bunch of additional quests based heavily around exploration.

New factions, voice acting, armor, weapons, and spells all await you in this gray land ravaged by pox and despair. Be on the lookout for this one to get even bigger and better in the coming months.

Skyrim Redone

Although it doesn't transport your character to an entirely new area or flood the game with new quests and voice acting, Skyrim Redone is still so extensive an overhaul of the base game that it practically qualifies as a total conversion.

Essentially everything about the mechanics of the game is revamped or totally changed with this mod, from completely redone racial modifiers to vastly expanded skills, radically altered combat, and a host of other tweaks to encounter scaling and much, much more.

The guide to what all exactly is changed with the mod is more than a hundred pages long, so that ought to tell you just how extensively Skyrim is altered here.

Obviously, total conversion mods are an ambitious and time-consuming undertaking, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that there are only a few that are feature-complete already.

What did you think of our six best Skyrim total conversion picks here, and are there any others we missed that should get added?

Beyond these finished mods, there are plenty more in development, like Skyblivion (exactly like it sounds, porting all of the quests and locations from Oblivion into Skyrim) or the Nordic-inspired Hoddminir total conversion project. Others, like the horror-focused Virus mod, are currently under review and no longer up for download, but hopefully they will return soon.

Still need more mods to change up your Skyrim experience? We've got plenty others well worth downloading, so you should take a look at these:

Published Jan. 8th 2018

Here we'll run through 22 of the best Skyrim ENBs available in 2019. ENB is an additional file that significantly improves graphics or environments of the game, and basically serves as a graphical or stylistic overhaul. Those who are looking to change the old visuals of Skyrim to completely new and impressive ones should consider checking out some of the excellent mods.

22 Best Skyrim ENBs

The Grim and Sombre

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This ENB mod is specifically used to apply different color schemes to the game, and you can choose any of the schemes such as Vaermina, Malacath, Jyggalag, Hircine, and Azura. It's fun to apply different colors and keep experimenting until you have the one that's just right for you.

Download The Grim and Sombre.

K ENB Pure Light

This one particularly focuses on improving colors and lights of the game's areas, but it can be quite an intensive mod to run, and you may find your performance struggling if you use this ENB. If your PC can handle it, though, check out this stunning mod to drastically improve the lighting of Skyrim.

Download K ENB Pure Light.

Tranquillity ENB

Tranquillity is a great environmental overhaul mod that greatly improves the environments of vanilla Skyrim, which, let's be honest, looked pretty bad. Give your Skyrim a peaceful vibe with this excellent ENB.

Download Tranquillity ENB.

Rudy ENB

This ENB adds a very nice overlay to the look of the environments. The main advantage is that it doesn't take a particularly powerful PC to run, whilst it still gives you overall improved lighting and atmosphere. A good halfway point for people with less-than-optimal PCs.

Download Rudy ENB.

RealLike ENB

A gorgeous and colorful ENB that aims to make Skyrim prettier, sharper, and more vibrant, whilst also balanced for both weak and powerful PCs. Whether you're playing on a super beefy Titan-infused PC or a crappy notebook laptop, you'll be able to enjoy this graphical overhaul.

Download RealLike ENB.

Snapdragon Prime

The best part is that bokeh effect (blur created by out-of-focus images) that makes the Skyrim look great and far more fantastical. Also, it brings you several additional schemes to choose from and those three slots that you can fill with your favorite ENB mods.

Download Snapdragon Prime.

Vividian ENB

It creates a dreamy look or a soft tone environment that is perfect for the forests or foggy places. Great for improving the many, many forests, foggy places, marshes, and more that'll you be spending hours walking through.

Download Vividian ENB.

Stakado Cinemascope ENB

If you want your surrounding having a cinematic feel, then go for this ENB. It scatters the filmy look in the environments, so it feels more spectacular while exploring.

Download Stakado Cinemascope ENB.

Antique Dragon

To get the best color schemes in almost all the environments this is a must have ENB and thus it comes as one of the top Skyrim mods. Just try it and you will get to know what the real magic in this ENB is. A truly stunning mod!

Download Antique Dragon.

Noir ENB

This creates a wonderful aura that contains black and white or similar tones. The ENB mod works amazingly with warm shades and makes everything stand out. Great for building a moodier, more atmospheric Skyrim.

Download Noir ENB.

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This ENB mod is specifically used to apply different color schemes to the game, and you can choose any of the schemes such as Vaermina, Malacath, Jyggalag, Hircine, and Azura. It's fun to apply different colors and keep experimenting until you have the one that's just right for you.

Download The Grim and Sombre.

K ENB Pure Light

This one particularly focuses on improving colors and lights of the game's areas, but it can be quite an intensive mod to run, and you may find your performance struggling if you use this ENB. If your PC can handle it, though, check out this stunning mod to drastically improve the lighting of Skyrim.

Download K ENB Pure Light.

Tranquillity ENB

Tranquillity is a great environmental overhaul mod that greatly improves the environments of vanilla Skyrim, which, let's be honest, looked pretty bad. Give your Skyrim a peaceful vibe with this excellent ENB.

Download Tranquillity ENB.

Rudy ENB

This ENB adds a very nice overlay to the look of the environments. The main advantage is that it doesn't take a particularly powerful PC to run, whilst it still gives you overall improved lighting and atmosphere. A good halfway point for people with less-than-optimal PCs.

Download Rudy ENB.

RealLike ENB

A gorgeous and colorful ENB that aims to make Skyrim prettier, sharper, and more vibrant, whilst also balanced for both weak and powerful PCs. Whether you're playing on a super beefy Titan-infused PC or a crappy notebook laptop, you'll be able to enjoy this graphical overhaul.

Download RealLike ENB.

Snapdragon Prime

The best part is that bokeh effect (blur created by out-of-focus images) that makes the Skyrim look great and far more fantastical. Also, it brings you several additional schemes to choose from and those three slots that you can fill with your favorite ENB mods.

Download Snapdragon Prime.

Vividian ENB

It creates a dreamy look or a soft tone environment that is perfect for the forests or foggy places. Great for improving the many, many forests, foggy places, marshes, and more that'll you be spending hours walking through.

Download Vividian ENB.

Stakado Cinemascope ENB

If you want your surrounding having a cinematic feel, then go for this ENB. It scatters the filmy look in the environments, so it feels more spectacular while exploring.

Download Stakado Cinemascope ENB.

Antique Dragon

To get the best color schemes in almost all the environments this is a must have ENB and thus it comes as one of the top Skyrim mods. Just try it and you will get to know what the real magic in this ENB is. A truly stunning mod!

Download Antique Dragon.

Noir ENB

This creates a wonderful aura that contains black and white or similar tones. The ENB mod works amazingly with warm shades and makes everything stand out. Great for building a moodier, more atmospheric Skyrim.

Download Noir ENB.

JK's SKYRIM

The mod dramatically improves cities and towns, making them look and feel more alive. It helps to give the game world an entirely different feel, making some of the towns and cities feel almost like a completely different game.

Download JK's SKYRIM.

Ultimate HD Fire Effects

Most of the time, the fire in Skyrim looks weak and underwhelming, especially when it comes from a fireball flying out of your hand. It's a big part of why vanilla Skyrim's magic always felt so weak and unappealing to me, the spell effects just look naff. This mod fixes that issue and vastly improves the look of all fires and fire spells.

Download Ultimate HD Fire Effects.

Wet and Cold

The world of Skyrim is meant to be a wet, cold, and harsh place in the far Northern region of Tamriel. So, why doesn't it feel like it? Sure, vanilla Skyrim has plenty of snow and big mountains, but you never get the sense that it's a particularly cold and harsh place to live. The people certainly don't seem to mind! This mod intends to alleviate that problem, by making the world of Skyrim feel wetter, colder, and generally more unpleasant. Characters will dress more appropriately for these harsh conditions and will react more to the cold.

Download Wet and Cold.

Race Menu

This one adds more details to the characters so you can make your character look much better than vanilla Skyrim allows. Using this, you can tweak small details like eyes, hair, brows, beards, etc. for both male and female of any race. Make your character look more like you intended with this great character customization mod.

Download Race Menu.

Skysight Skins

A great mod that makes the skin and characters of Skyrim look much better and far more detailed. It helps to make the people of Skyrim look prettier and less… well, ugly. I mean, just look at that man's skin! Very nice.

Download Skysight Skins.

Pure Waters or Realistic Water

There's a lot of water in Skyrim, and in vanilla Skyrim, it doesn't exactly look very good. You're going to seeing it and wading through it a lot during your adventures, so why not make it look cleaner, prettier, and just better overall basically? There are two options for improving the appearance of the water in Skyrim: Pure Waters and Realistic Water. Realistic Water aims to simulate realistic water physics and fluid motion, while Pure Waters makes the water appear calmer and more placid.

Download Pure Waters.

Download Realistic Water.

Skyrim Flora Overhaul

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This one improves all the greenery to a great scale, so the forests look excellent. Also, it improves the lighting in these areas and improves the grass textures even more. It adds details to forests and makes all the woods looking entirely new.

Download Skyrim Flora Overhaul.

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Tetrachromatic ENB

This wonderfully colorful and vibrant mod aims to make the world of Skyrim feel more fantastical and mythical and less flat and ordinary. Think more Lord of the Rings, less historical Viking fan-fiction. Also, you get to say tetrachromatic, which is fun, too.

Download Tetrachromatic ENB.

Re-Engaged ENB

It is an improved version of Vividian ENB that creates an environment of soft tone that suits foggy places. A better option for those who are willing to push their PCs to their best for the sake of a beautiful Skyrim. Good stuff!

Download Re-Engaged ENB.

Nyclix's ENB-Reshade

This mod is such a blessing as it makes all the environments colorful and alive and it is available for both ReShade and ENB. A great way to make the world of Skyrim more vibrant and dynamic and less grey/brown and less dull.

Download Nyclix's ENB-Reshade.

Cinematic Film Looks

As the name implies, this is another version of the Cinemascope ENB that creates a film-inspired aesthetic for the environments of Skyrim. This mod aims to give Skyrim a more cinematic look and feel, but it's up to you to decide whether that's something you want.

Download Cinematic Film Looks.

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Zera ENB

This one works with weather mods such as Climates of Tamriel, Dolomite weathers, Natural Atmospheric Tamriel, Surreal Lighting, Vanilla Weather, etc. It's a great way to bring together some of the best weather overhaul mods available to Skyrim to have the weather, sky, and environments all looking as bright, vibrant, and detailed as possible.

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Download Zera ENB.

Including ENBs with Skyrim make the entire game world a spectacular place to perform gameplay. Every one of these mods is the best Skyrim ENB that you can try from standard rim to special rim. These are a fantastic source to have improved graphics to a great extent so try any of them and share how it feels after having these mods.





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