Synth Potato🥔@SynthPotato
I've recently been playing Skyrim with 1900+ Mods and it is a shockingly amazing experience, and it took me basically just one click to play this.
This is using the "Gate to Sovngarde" mod collection, not only is it completely stable, it transforms Skyrim while still keeping its original core. it still feels like I am playing Skyrim unlike some mod collections out there that turn it into a different game, but it focuses massively on enhancing the immersion of the game.
In a lot of ways, it feels like Red Dead Redemption 2 with its new hunting system that feels far more involved, including carrying animals. There are survival mechanics involving Sleep/Hunger/Cleanliness (that you can turn off) plus having to battle the elements like Cold. There's ability to talk to any NPC with thousands of new dialogue lines added to existing NPCs (they have used AI voices for this) and new NPCs everywhere. it feels like every single quest, person and location has been overhauled and had new things added to it to expand the game. Just in Whiterun alone, there's a ton more going on with more people, more buildings, new quests, the entire outskirts of the city is now filled with new markets and buildings to explore.
One of my favorite parts early on is that now you can play the prologue from the perspective of a Helgen resident, with a ton of little quests and dialogue with the residents of the city up until they bring in Ralof and Ulfric, you get to witness that whole sequence from the sidelines and once Alduin arrives, it progresses same as vanilla.
There's an entire bestiary here just like The Witcher 3, Photo mode is here, all the animations have been overhauled and third person is actually playable now. You can play card/dice games with NPCs, and the game in general is a lot more reactive to what you do. for example I cleared out a bandit camp near whiterun and I could capture it properly, resulting in the guards moving in, making the roads safer.
And all I've described is just scratching the surface, there are a ton of new quests, new lands, new gear, dungeons, choices, expanded quests, every single mechanic in Skyrim has been touched up in some way to ensure a more immersive, more role-playing experience is achieved. It is insane what you can do with Skyrim modding 2026, I have been modding this game for what feels like my entire life just manually, so seeing that modding has become as easy because all this took was pressing download on the collection on Nexus, with the only boundary here being that you need Nexus premium but I simply just used the trial and cancelled right away, so I did not spend a single penny to get this experience.