Day-Z as a mod was so popular that it encouraged people to buy ARMA, a previously-unrecognized military simulator with a very niche audience.
Day-Z (ARMA Series)ĭay-Z is one of the most influential game mods on this list. While Bethesda did not hire him for his work on Falskaar, Bungie (developers of Halo and Destiny) stepped in to pick up his talent instead, ensuring that his talents would not go to waste. The developer, Alexander Velicky, made the mod as an application to work with Bethesda.
This world, Falskaar, is jam-packed with new content, including new quests, new dungeons, new NPCs, new voicelines for those NPCs, and over sixty minutes of new music. Falskaar is a mod developed by one person who added an entire new world for Skyrim players to explore. Falskaar is one of the most popular Skyrim mods out there, likely thanks to being one of the most ambitious.