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Welcome to Deadly Skyrim: A new way to die!

If you have found yourself here then perhaps you, like me, are looking for a new way to play Skyrim. In a game that is so large and has such a wealth of content made by the modding community anything is possible.

Inspired by such list as 14 mods that help make Skyrim a Zombie Apocolypse and the SkyZ video series by IamPattyJack I wanted to turn my game into a survival horror.

As I started adding in the common mods I found that I just wasn't getting the feeling that I was truly breaking away from Skyrim and I needed more. I started to not only look into survival mods but difficulty mods, mods that changed the combat system, mods that made enemies harder. Magic?  I found the survival aspects of the mods such as Frostfall were much easier to maintain if magic was involved so that had to go too. I took Skyrim and stripped it of anything that I found made the game to easy.

Then I found the Alone mod and the updated version by Moxica; suddenly my Skyrim experience changed dramatically. My play through started to feel like a true survival experience. However I could not stop there.

I had started down this path with the intention of turning Skyrim into a zombie survival horror game. Now I had my core game I needed to add in that factor. I found a handful of mods that did what I wanted but I went with 28 days and a bit alongside Draugnarok and The Walking Draugr.

Setting up this modded game was no easy feat and it took some trial and error to get mods that worked well together and did what I wanted.  If you watch my test video you will see that I am tweaking a lot of the mods via the MCM ( I will at some point be doing a break down of the settings I use for others who may be interested).

All  in all I am happy with the out come and hopefully you will be too. Don't get me wrong; the game is hard and its not going to be to everyone's tastes.

So stick around, watch my play test video, check out the mod list and perhaps you will also like to attempt a dark fantasy/horror play through.

UPDATE: August 2022 - I am in the process of converting this modlist and gameplay over to Skyrim Special Edtion/Anniversary Edition. It will rely heavily on the Survival Creation Club instead of Campire/Frostfall. 


 -MA-

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