Players Choice - Mod of the Year 2023 feature

Welcome to the 2023 Mod of the Year results! With top 100 voting having taken place over the last 20 days, the results have now been tallied and we are ready to announce the winners! Our favorite moments in 2023 include our sister company mod.io announcing offical integrated mod and UGC support in games from top publishers including Ubisoft, Techland and Bandai Namco a clear signal that modding is getting bigger and becoming better supported than ever before.

Below you will find the Top 10 Mods of 2023. While you're at it, you can also check out the Top 10 Indie Games of 2023, or join the site in anticipation for next year's awards to register a mod of your own or vote for those you think deserve recognition in 2023.

Battlefield 1918 is a total conversion modification for Battlefield 1942. The mod takes Battlefield 1942 into a whole new scenario, the first world war. Next to historically correct equipments and vehicles, we try to recreate the atmosphere of these WW1 battlefields as close as we can, keeping in mind the game we're working with. To achieve this, we've drastically changed the gameplay from the original game like so that you must now rely on teamwork, artillery, trenches and slow vehicles....

Voxel Doom II is the follow up to 2022's award-winning Voxel Doom. This is a new graphics mod that replaces all monsters, weapons, props and items with fully 3d voxel models. It replaces all monsters from both Doom and Doom II.

Lost in Infinity's grasp, the Doom Slayer must break an endless cycle of death and rebirth. Classic Doom transformed into a roguelike along with upgrades, stats and random surprises!

Equestria at War is a mod that tries to recreate the fantasy world of Equestria from My Little Pony franchise in a slightly darker setting with industrialization, corruption and political disagreements. The scenario focuses on global confrontation between Changelings and Equestria.

Dark Interval is a restoration/revision mod that lets you play Half-Life 2 as it could have been. Using Valve's early concepts, we're creating new maps, models, textures, and custom dialogue. The mod is released in episodes, the most recent being Dark Interval: Part I - an intro chapter to the bigger story.

Swelter is a story-driven mod set several years before the events of Half-Life 2. It explores the internal tensions within the Resistance during their rebellion against the Combine in a post-Soviet Central Asian city, encircled by the scorching steppe.

The easiest to use and most flexible NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx! This mod allows you to play Half-Life: Alyx without a VR headset, not needing specialized drivers or anything like that. It allows you to play the game in any way and anywhere you like from beginning to end! We developed the only NoVR mod that allows you to play in a very easy way, with many VR interactions preserved in some form for a flat screen.

Run. Think. Shoot. Live. Yet Again. Replay your old favorite game with new features like enhaced effects, movement, weapons.

The team behind Entropy : Zero - Uprising placed first in last year's Best Upcoming, and this year made good on that hype with a fantastic release that nabbed them another great placement in Mod of the Year, as a fan-made spin-off mod of last year's Player's Choice winner, Entropy : Zero 2. This time you step in the boots of a Civil Protection Unit trapped right in the middle of the uprising.

It's funny to say this mod came out of nowhere, considering it has been in development for 7 years, but Thief: The Black Parade did just that when it released in November this year. It has captivated fans of the original Thief, serving as an unofficial expansion for Thief Gold in which players assume the role of Hume, a returning convict, as he is inadvertently thrown into a web of intrigue and conspiracies. The year is 833, you are now back in The City, a sprawling metropolis of soot-caked brick, greasy fumes and noisy machinery, with many a sinister conspiracy whispered behind closed doors. Lost and without a penny to your name, you are back to your life of thievery and must find your old associate Dahlquist. Shadows and silence are your allies. Light is your enemy. Stealth and cunning are your tools. And the riches of others are yours for the taking.

One of the rare mods able to bring a ton of nostaglia back, over 25 years on from the series original release.

With so many fantastic mods posting major updates and leveraging their passionate communities, we'd like to direct your praise and attention to these honorable mentions. A honorable mention is given for polling strongly in the awards, but being ineligible due to placing higher in a previous year, or if a significant update was not released in 2023:

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Congratulations to all the modders and community members who participated in the 2023 Mod of the Year awards! We wish you all the best for your continued modding efforts into the new year and beyond.