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Nexus Mods (2012)
Mods for thousands of games, downloaded billions of times. Skyrim got a great many.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2012
A site for sharing PC game mods, with its own forum and wiki, started by Robin Scott ('Dark0ne') and best known for Elder Scrolls mods.
It grew from Morrowind Chronicles, a 2001 fan site, through TESSource and TESNexus. By April 2026 it had 73 million registered users and 4,581 supported games, and had served over 22.5 billion downloads.
In 2012: Busy with mods for Skyrim, the game it is most noted for supporting, which had come out at the end of 2011.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2012 page.
Put it on your site
Run Nexus Mods, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2012, then plays a short scene. Want Nexus Mods in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
