SkyUI

Elegant, PC-friendly interface mod with many advanced features.

Fores New Idles in Skyrim SE - FNIS SE

No custom animation possible for Skyrim? Wrong. FNIS Behaviors allows to add different types of animations to the game: idles/poses, sequenced, furniture, paired, killmoves, creatures, and others.

A Quality World Map

Provides a new set of highly-detailed 3D or paper world map textures, complete with roads! Also adds a detailed Solsteim map.

Alternate Start - Live Another Life - SSE

Live Another Life provides an alternative means to start the game for those who do not wish to go through the lengthy intro sequence at Helgen.

Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul SE

Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul is a mod whose purpose is to increase player in-game immersion by greatly improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) of friendly NPCs (citizens) in order to make them act and react like true humans in relation to their environment or to an aggressor.

Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim

Ordinator overhauls the perk trees of Skyrim to increase the depth and fun of character building. It is highly compatible with other mods and uses lightweight and clean scripting.

Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim

Apocalypse is the most popular Skyrim spell pack, adding 155 new spells that are unique, balanced, lore friendly, use high quality custom visuals and blend seamlessly into the vanilla magic system. Also includes scrolls and staves for the new spells.

Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - RDO SE

Adds over 5,000 lines of completely voiced dialogue for NPCs using the original voices. Friends, followers, spouses, rivals, and others have much more to say. All default voices now have follower dialogue. Also fixes dialogue bugs and restores cut dialogue that has never been heard before!

Immersive Patrols SE AE

Immersive Patrols adds Stormcloak, Thalmor, Imperial and Dawnguard patrols to Skyrim and a few roaming Skaal, Reaver and Rieklings to Solstheim. These patrols can cross paths with eachother or the player creating new encounters.

Cutting Room Floor - SSE

A mod to restore several pieces of cut content in Skyrim Special Edition.

Legacy of the Dragonborn SSE

Legacy of the Dragonborn will forever change how you play Skyrim. Not just a display mod, not just a quest mod, not just a new guild mod, but a complete foundational flagship mod to build an entire load order around. This DLC expansion sized mod adds hundreds of new items, dozens of new quests and hundreds of extra hours of play.

Wet and Cold SE

This mod adds weather-dependent visual effects and AI enhancements to the player and NPCs.

Run For Your Lives

A small mod that makes citizens in a village or city run indoors during a dragon attack.

Stones of Barenziah Quest Markers

Adds quest markers to all 24 of the Stones of Barenziah (Unusual Gems) that you need to find/collect for the "No Stone Unturned" quest. For those like me who want to complete the quest, but don't like looking up all those locations

Footprints

Adds footprints to the player, NPCs, and creatures. With particle FX! Currently for snow and ash. Custom footprints hook for third-party mods w/ custom races. Heavily optimized since v1.00.

HDT-SMP (Skinned Mesh Physics)

SKSE plugin-based physics extender allowing application of the bullet physics library's skinned mesh physics to actor models in Skyrim.

Amazing Follower Tweaks SE

Multiple followers. Manage outfits, spells, combat style, home assignment and level up. Make werewolves or vampires lords. Followers ride horses, make camp, avoid traps, ignore friendly fire, toggle city/standard outfits & helmets, pose, dance and more

Campfire - Complete Camping System (Supports Skyrim VR)

Campfire is the most feature-rich stand-alone camping mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, created from Frostfall's immersive and detailed camping system. Campfire is also a modder's framework, allowing anyone to create their own unique camping equipment.

VioLens - A Killmove Mod SE

SkyUI & SKSE64 Required.VioLens - A Killmove Mod gives you in-game control over both Ranged and Melee Killmoves.JContainers SE only required for use of the Profile System.

Dynamic Animation Replacer

This mod dynamically replaces the actors' animations depending on various conditions. Supports most actors, including creatures. Actors and animations added by mods are also supported. No ESP file.