Must-Have Mods For Skyrim VR

Summary

• PC offers the best Skyrim VR experience due to modding flexibility.
• Mods like NavigateVR, Physical Torch Lighting, and VRIK Player Avatar enhance immersion.
• Increased actor limit and Pseudo Physical Weapon Collision improve gameplay quality.

There isn’t a soul alive that hasn’t encountered Skyrim in some way. Whether that’s one of the many ports on a plethora of platforms, through memes and pop culture, or from a friend slapping a virtual reality headset on your bonce and letting you loose in Tamriel for a while.

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By far the best experience you can have with the game is on PC, and that’s primarily down to the modding scene. On PC you can find workarounds for Bethesda's stranglehold on the Community Workshop pretty easily, and if you introduce virtual reality, there’s a lot more you can tinker with. For those looking to upgrade their next adventure as the Dragonborn, here’s a list of recommendations for the must have mods for Skyrim VR.

Updated May 22, 2025 By Matthew Mckeown: Skyrim may be getting a little long in the tooth, but it’s a game that keeps on giving, primarily through mods. Whether that’s doing something simple like boosting the vegetation and lighting, or overhauling it completely from the ground up, there’s a lot you can do to the game these days.

In VR you can substantially change things for the better. Either to make it more immersive and expand it with quest lines and character models, or just add a few quality of life fixes to smooth over some bumpy parts. There’s tons to tinker with, so to help you out here’s an updated look at the best must-have mods for Skyrim VR.

15 Myrkvior The Flora Of Skyrim

Natures Never Looked So Lush

The tree’s in the base game of Skyrim are a little lackluster, but that’s the game showing its age at this point. But you can substantially improve your surroundings somewhat with the Myrkvior Flora of Skyrim mod. It’s a super simple addon that makes everything look a little bit more lush and natural.

It applies to trees and grass by improving how they look and adding some thicker foliage around the ground to obscure the terrain more. The land itself also has a little makeover in some minor areas with things like new rock formations, proper cobbled roads, and a more immersive look to some of those big gorgeous vistas in the game. If you like making Skyrim look pretty, then this is one worth looking into.

14 Spellsiphon

Inhale Spell, Exhale Big Damage

This is a unique and creative combat mod for those that like messing around with magic. The Spellsiphon mod essentially streamlines the spell and weapon system to allow for a smoother combat experience, so no more having to hot swap constantly. There’s also new spell types that function with zero magic, and some new audio and visual effects.

The best part is the siphon ability of the spells, which is a mechanic that allows you to suck in a specific type of magic, and then use it in an attack or apply it to your weapons. There’s also new magic types like World and Death to name just a few, overall it’s a fun addon for magically inclined adventurers.

13 Dragonborn Speaks Naturally

Make Sure You've Got A Good Mic

This is one for the roleplay fans, Dragonborn Speaks Naturally works in tandem with Windows Speech Recognition Engine to allow you to use voice activation in the game. It’s a little fiddly to get going, but it’s a small add-on that goes a long way for your immersion.

It basically allows you to respond to dialogue in the game verbally. Of course you can’t say anything you like, but repeating your dialogue options that are displayed in a window will activate them. So it’s a very minor thing, but it’s fun if you’re going for a full roleplay run.

12 MageVR

Memorizing Magic Marks

Here’s another fun mod for the Mages out there, MageVR lets you carve magic out of the literal air ingame through a unique sigil system. No more selecting a spell and holding up your hand vaguely in the direction of a threat, now you need to be specific.

It’s a creative gesture based system that’s very particular about how you move your hand. So if you’re panicking and flailing, get ready to die. The mod also comes with a special removable backpack that can be popped on and off with a gesture and allows for the equipping off items, magic and other bits of loot. If you’re looking for a mod that adds some more handwork, then grab MageVR.

11 Azurite Weathers And Seasons

Making The Weather A Little Wilder

Skyrim's weather is a little underwhelming at times, and whilst it can boost certain weapons and magic effects it’s a bit dull to look at. With the Azurite Weathers and Seasons mod, you can experience a more realistic fantasy wilderness.

The mod itself replaces the base game's weather completely and replaces it with more vaporous clouds, rolling high quality thunderstorms, new night sky textures, humidity and much more. It’s a small change that goes a long way to making the world look just a little bit more modern and real.

10 NavigateVR

Orienteering Your Way Around

Skyrim is a huge place, and it’s very easy to get turned around and lost. Whilst the ingame map is handy, it still requires hopping into a separate menu screen to find it. Plus the navigation HUD is a little immersion breaking. Step forward Navigate VR.

This fun mod removes the HUD and adds a fully functioning Compass and handheld detailed maps of different areas of Skyrim. From there it’s up to your orienteering skills to find the right way to where you want to go. It’s a very simple to use mod that makes navigating the game world a little bit more interesting and slower paced as you take in the sights to find landmarks to navigate with.

There’s also an add-on for the mod called Map Markers that allows you to place map markers on your handheld maps.

9 More Interactive Objects: Throwing Things VR

Chucking Vegetables At The Villagers

One of the downsides of Skyrim VR is that there’s not a lot of interactivity in the basegame. Sure you can swing a sword and nock an arrow, but that’s about it. With the More Interactive Objects: Throwing Things mod you can pick up and toss things like a maniac.

Plus, they’ve also coded in some neat effects for certain things that are chucked. For example, potions and poisons explode on contact with a surface or creature, flour bags can be burst to blind enemies, and soul gems can be smashed to watch the damned within escape. There’s plenty of other little touches, but those are the most notable ones.

8 Physical Torch Lighting

Burning Things With Your Bare Hands

Not a major mod, but a nice little addition to the immersive feeling of getting lost in another world. The Physical Torch Lighting mod allows you to light torches by hand with a flame spell. All you have to do is place your flaming hand near it and voila, instant light source.

It’s a simple to install and easy to use mod, plus in the future the mod creator has said they’re adding fires and wall torches to the list of things you can light. Torches in Skyrim were mostly underused, and the way they just popped on was always odd to see, so this is a nice fix for that little bugbear.

7 VRIK Player Avatar

Strike A Pose

If you really want to get lost in Skyrim then we highly recommend picking up the VRIK Player Avatar mod. This unique mod is a big hit in the community because it animates and matches your entire body movement, whilst also adding up to 14 holsters for equipment on your body.

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What that means is, you get a wider range of movement, especially minute delicate stuff, you can perform gestures, move the individual fingers on your hand, draw weapons with your hands by grabbing the handles and so much more. It’s a solid mod that really helps you fall further into the game and away from real reality.

6 Wearable Health Bars: Soul Gauge

The Only Handheld You Need

Whilst Skyrim's HUD is kept fairly minimal in the base game for a reason, the health, stamina, magic and voice bars are still kinda bland and distracting at times. The Wearable Health Bars mod fixes this pesky issue by putting your critical information on your hands.

But it’s not just one specific design, there’s a few. From gloves, to bracelets and even rings can all be worn and each has little gems corresponding to a specific stat. For example, red gems mean health, green are stamina and so on. It’s a neat little mod that keeps your critical stats available at just a glance, and over time once you get used to them it’s a really nice quality of life improvement for the game.