Nexus Mods celebrates 10 billion downloads, almost half of them are Skyrim mods
Nexus Mods is something of an institution in the modding circles on PC. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with ModDB, Nexus is one of the most prolific and popular modding websites, bar none, and this fact is driven home as it reaches a new milestone — 10 billion file downloads in total.
According to the latest official announcement from Nexus Mods, the site will reach a grand total of 10,000,000,000 mods downloaded on February 9, 2024. At this time, Nexus supports a whopping 2,683 different moddable games, with almost 540,000 unique mods hosted on the site. Nexus also prides itself on serving as the home to 128,361 mod developers, giving it the sort of variety a site would need to reach stats as impressive as these.
It should come as no huge surprise that the vast majority of Nexus Mods’ 10 billion downloads can be attributed to Bethesda Softworks RPGs. The breakdown is as follows:
In other words, Bethesda’s Gamebryo/Creation Engine sandbox RPGs take up 60% of the Nexus Mods top 10 downloads list, with Skyrim alone taking more than half of the site’s celebrated 10 billion mod downloads. To call this anything short of impressive would be ridiculous. Now, Bethesda’s latest first-party flagship, Starfield, is still sitting at a relatively humble 35.6 million downloads, though that number is bound to balloon in the coming months and years.
Notably, the first major Starfield revamp mod (bundle) has only just come out, and it’s certainly worth remembering that the game’s official modding SDK hasn’t even been released yet.
Back on track, Nexus Mods’ incredibly impressive numbers are assuredly going to grow even more in the coming days, months, and years. “As we move towards the next 10 billion downloads,” read the Nexus blog, “we have a lot of exciting developments on the horizon including the future Nexus Mods App and our significant investment in scaling and developing our services and website, for example site preferences and notification improvements.”
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