The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR

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• Recommended Posted September 6, 2025 on Steam [b][u]The Best VR Game Ever Made... With a HUGE Asterisk[/u][/b] Let's get this out of the way immediately. [b]Vanilla Skyrim VR is not what this review is about.[/b] If you buy this game, you are buying it with the expectation that you are going to spend a few hours (or more... let's be real) modding it. If you're not willing to do that, you can probably pass. If you [i]are[/i] willing to put in the work, you are in for what is, without any exaggeration, the single greatest and most immersive VR experience available today. Forget short tech demos or wave shooters. This is the only truly longform, open-world VR RPG that delivers hundreds of hours of content. Half-Life: Alyx was a fantastic, polished experience, but it's a short story. Skyrim VR is a whole second life. The magic happens with a holy trinity of mods: [b]HIGGS, VRIK, and PLANCK.[/b] These aren't just recommended; they are [i]absolutely essential[/i]. [list] [*] [b]VRIK[/b] gives you a full virtual body. You look down, you see your chest, your arms, your legs. It tracks your movements. This alone cranks the immersion up to eleven. [*] [b]HIGGS[/b] lets you physically interact with the world. You can pick up objects with your hands, grab loot directly, and even physically collide with items. Your hands aren't just floating controllers anymore. [*] [b]PLANCK[/b] builds on this by adding full player and NPC physics. You can physically push enemies, block their attacks with your weapon, and get shoved around yourself. Combat becomes a visceral, physical dance instead of a floaty waggle-fest. [/list] When you combine these, you get something truly special. You're not just playing Skyrim; you are [i]in[/i] Skyrim. Peeking around corners, physically drawing your bow, and seeing a dragon blot out the sun above you is an experience no other game has managed to replicate on this scale. [b]So, what's the catch? The big, ugly con?[/b] This version of the game is stuck in time. It was [b]never updated to the Anniversary Edition[/b]. This is a massive headache for the modding scene. A huge number of amazing mods created in the past few years are designed for the Special/Anniversary Edition of the game and are simply incompatible with the VR version. You will constantly run into amazing mods on Nexus that you just can't use. It requires a lot of careful reading and frequently using older versions of mods to get a stable load order. It's a significant limitation that holds the game back from its true, ultimate potential. Even with that massive flaw, modded Skyrim VR is a masterpiece. It's a testament to the modding community that they have taken this game and elevated it to a god-tier VR title. It takes work, patience, and a willingness to troubleshoot, but the payoff is the most engrossing virtual world you can possibly lose yourself in. Absolutely recommended, but only for the dedicated.
• Not recommended Posted January 16, 2026 on Steam Lots of fun, but agree with everyone else. Modding is a must. Plus $60 for a game that came out 15 years ago is absurd. Do not buy this at full price and without the intention of modding. Would give a positive rating if the price wasn't absurd.
• Recommended Posted December 14, 2025 on Steam do NOT buy this game full price ♥♥♥♥ bethesda for releasing this crap . but... if you have the patience to mod, and ♥♥♥♥ around with mods... and get the game for cheap... this . will. be. the. best . playthrough. you . EVER have. PERIOD. but vanilla it is a waste of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ money. ♥♥♥♥ you Todd Howard
• Recommended Posted January 22, 2026 on Steam Not so great if you play it vanilla, but it is increadible with mods. So many mods. I recommend HIGGS, PLANCK, VRIKs, Spell Wheel VR, Sunhelm Survival, Auto Sneak And Jump, and their requirements as a good starting setup. These will give you a full body avatar instead of just floating hands and will add in physics collisions and interactability thats lacking in vanilla. Tired of those chickens ratting you out to the guards? Now you can just reach down, grab them with your hands, and throw them into the river! Even with mods, Archery is a bit jank and aiming spells can be a bit tricky. Also be sure to tweak your .ini files to get better visuals or it'll be blurry. LOD is low and dynamic resolution is on by default, so change the LOD settings and disable dynamic resolution (disable in steam vr settings, too). I get about 90fps on my quest 3 on desktop (rtx4090, ryzen 7 7800X3D, 64gb ddr5) using virtual desktop over wifi6 router.
• Recommended Posted August 12, 2025 on Steam Without mods, a sorry excuse of a VR port. With mods, one of the best VR experiences you can have. To get a good modlist, you'll need Wabbajack and a Nexus Premium account (unless you want to manually click 'download' on hundreds of mods), but it's definitely worth it. FUS is a good Vanilla+ modlist (70 GB), while Mad Gods Overhaul is a good ultramodded list (260 GB)
• Recommended Posted July 14, 2025 on Steam Skyrim VR is minimal effort port Bethesda style. But.......... You guessed right - modding. With modding this is the number 1 VR game on the market and any competition is light years away. It can be even best gooner vr game if you want it.