
Skyrim is noted to have an active adult modding scene centered around the website LoversLab, a 1.5 million member "massive sex mod community". The Beyond Skyrim: Bruma mod, released in July 2017, adds the county of Bruma from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and several new quests to the game. The Falskaar mod contains a DLC-length adventure with 26 new quests in a new continent, and was created as a job application its creator was later hired by Bungie. Many Skyrim mods add new content to the game. The Paarthurnax Dilemma added the option to force Delphine to stand down, while the later Paarthurnax – Quest Expansion used existing lines to expand the quest and make it sensible from both the Blades' and Paarthurnax's point of view, as well as add the option to spare the dragon.

Multiple mods were introduced to address the game's Paarthurnax quest, in which the Dragonborn is forced to kill allied NPC dragon Paarthurnax by Delphine, Grandmaster of the Blades, causing controversy over the lack of a choice to spare him despite his prominent role in aiding the Dragonborn. Other "essential" mods include A Quality World Map, which makes the game's map screen higher-resolution or enables replacement with a paper map, and Realistic Humanoid Movement Speed, which adjusts the player's movement speed to make walking faster and running slower. SkyUI, which completely redesigns the game's menu screen to make it easier to use, as well as providing menu systems for other mods, is also a popular and highly recommended mod. One exists for both the main game and the official High Resolution textures patch. Some of the most basic and commonly used mods are the Unofficial Skyrim Patches, which simply address "a huge amount of bugs the official patches don't". Fans were also able to create an unofficial modding scene for the Nintendo Switch. These mods made their way to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with the release of Skyrim Special Edition. Valve Corporation walked back its attempts to add paid mods to Skyrim, following backlash from fans. Traditionally, Skyrim mods have been largely free to download.

As the vanilla game has a reputation for outdated mechanics, it is common for players to mod Skyrim even prior to their first playthrough. Other mods add new quests and characters, or update the game's graphics and animations. Many of these mods were created for utility reasons, patching numerous bugs left in the game by Bethesda Softworks, while also improving the game's usability and character movement.

One of the most modded video games of all time, it has nearly 70,000 mod submissions on Nexus Mods and 28,000 in the Steam Workshop. Skyrim modding refers to the community-made modifications for the 2011 fantasy role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. User-generated creations for the 2011 video game Skyrim
