Skyrim looks just as good as we remember it with 1,800 graphics mods

Skyrim with 1,800 mods amazes us and makes PCs sweat.

It’s been 12 years since The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim began its journey as one of the most popular role-playing games of all time. And if we’re being honest, the vanilla version is showing its age now.

But what if Skyrim 2023 could look as amazing as it does in our glorified memories? A mildly megalomaniacal mod pack called Elysium achieves just that and much more. It includes in the updated version Elysium Remastered around 1,800 Graphics Modswho push the role-playing game into the present day with verve.

We’ll show you how great it looks! Meanwhile, our writer Martin Seng wishes Bethesda would learn from the even older Oblivion in The Elder Scrolls 6:

Mod madness for high-performance computers

Once again, the YouTuber ventures from the channel Digital Dreamsto push the graphical boundaries of a game. In the following 4K video you can see snow-capped mountains, a village bursting with details and much more:

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If we had to pinpoint one detail that we like best, the fluffy, thick blanket of snow right at the beginning of the video looks particularly impressive, even if it doesn’t seem to react to the character’s feet as is common in many modern games.

The reflecting water surface of the half-frozen river is also convincing, as is the high level of detail during a leisurely walk through the forest. By the way, a raytracing reshade ensures more realistic lighting.

But sometimes the vanilla version is for surprises gut: It took a Skyrim player eleven years to find one of the most basic game functions. And finally there is something like a multiplayer mode in Skyrim: