Summary
- Starfield has reached a significant milestone of over 1 million mod downloads, showcasing the game's dedicated and active community.
- Players can enjoy a unique experience in Starfield thanks to its mod support.
- Bethesda has a history of games with successful modding communities, as seen with Fallout 4 and Skyrim, indicating a promising future for Starfield.
Starfield has reached over 1 million mod downloads. Even though it's still in early access, Starfield already has a dedicated community of players creating content and sharing their experiences in the game.
In Starfield, players take on the role of a member of the Constellation, a group of explorers in search of mysterious artifacts spread across the galaxy. Starfield players have a rich character creator, options for customizing ships, and mod support to make their experience more unique. One modder even took on the task to add a DLSS mod to Starfield.
Starfield has reached the milestone of over one million mod downloads on Nexus Mods. The site, famous for hosting a huge number of mods for the industry's biggest games, currently has 439 Starfield mods. Taking an average, it would be as if each Starfield mod had around 2,500 downloads. The DLSS mod already has over 200,000 downloads. Another popular mod is "Cleanfield," which eliminates the intro videos and provides a cleaner Starfield menu, with almost 30,000 downloads. At Nexus Mods players can also find various character presets, such as the one that adds Seinfeld's George Costanza to Starfield.
While the modders' journey in Starfield has only just begun, Bethesda already has a successful track record in this regard with previous releases. Fallout 4 was released in 2015 but still maintains an active community that continues to produce content. Fallout 4 has over 48,000 mods published on Nexus Mods, and 1.2 billion downloads. Another example of modding success is Skyrim. Even though it was released over a decade ago, it still has an active modding community. The number of mods available for Skyrim on Nexus Mods stands at 69,741. Together, Skyrim mods have almost 2 billion downloads on the site.
Starfield has received high praise and so far is living up to the high expectations of players. The game has a vast universe to explore, with over 1,000 planets to visit. In addition, Starfield hides some fun Easter eggs and references, which give players something to look out for while exploring the cosmos. As long as the game's mod support continues at the current rate, fans expect Starfield to have longevity similar to Bethesda's past games.
Starfield is available now during early access and officially launches September 6 for PC and Xbox Series X/S.