Nexus Mods is one thing of an establishment within the modding circles on PC. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with ModDB, Nexus is likely one of the most prolific and standard modding web sites, bar none, and this truth is pushed residence because it reaches a brand new milestone — 10 billion file downloads in whole.

In accordance with the newest official announcement from Nexus Mods, the positioning will attain a grand whole of 10,000,000,000 mods downloaded on February 9, 2024. Presently, Nexus helps a whopping 2,683 completely different moddable video games, with nearly 540,000 distinctive mods hosted on the positioning. Nexus additionally prides itself on serving as the house to 128,361 mod builders, giving it the kind of selection a website would want to succeed in stats as spectacular as these.

Bethesda RPGs are modding powerhouses, in line with Nexus

It ought to come as no enormous shock that the huge majority of Nexus Mods’ 10 billion downloads may be attributed to Bethesda Softworks RPGs. The breakdown is as follows:

• #1: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (Particular Version) – 3.8 billion downloads
• #2: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim – 1.9 billion downloads
• #3: Fallout 4 – 1.3 billion downloads
• #4: Fallout: New Vegas – 513.7 million downloads
• #5: Stardew Valley – 296.4 million downloads
• #6: Cyberpunk 2077 – 288.7 million downloads
• #7: The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion – 285.7 million downloads
• #8: Fallout 3 – 166 million downloads
• #9: The Witcher 3 – 137.9 million downloads
• #10: Baldur’s Gate 3 – 96.7 million downloads

In different phrases, Bethesda’s Gamebryo/Creation Engine sandbox RPGs take up 60% of the Nexus Mods high 10 downloads record, with Skyrim alone taking greater than half of the positioning’s celebrated 10 billion mod downloads. To name this something in need of spectacular could be ridiculous. Now, Bethesda’s newest first-party flagship, Starfield, remains to be sitting at a comparatively humble 35.6 million downloads, although that quantity is certain to balloon within the coming months and years.

Notably, the primary main Starfield revamp mod (bundle) has solely simply come out, and it’s definitely price remembering that the sport’s official modding SDK hasn’t even been launched but.

Again on monitor, Nexus Mods’ extremely spectacular numbers are assuredly going to develop much more within the coming days, months, and years. “As we transfer in direction of the subsequent 10 billion downloads,” learn the Nexus weblog, “now we have a whole lot of thrilling developments on the horizon together with the longer term Nexus Mods App and our vital funding in scaling and growing our providers and web site, for instance website preferences and notification enhancements.”

In accordance with the announcement, Nexus Mods has, to this point, paid out over $7 million to modders by way of the positioning’s Donation Factors characteristic, supporting probably the most prolific PC recreation modders with over $300,000 in month-to-month donation funds. “By this, we may give again to the creators, the curious-minded, whacky and ingenious modders who proceed to find new territory in recreation improvement and preserve pushing the boundaries of creativity,” Nexus Mods’ assertion concluded.