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, after backlash from fans. Skyrim mods are largely free to download. As the vanilla game has a reputation for outdated mechanics, it is common for players to mod Skyrim before their first playthrough.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, patching numerous bugs left in the game by Bethesda Softworks, while also improving the game's usability and character movement.

As one of the most modded games, it has over 60,000 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