Unmissable Mods Month

Mods are awesome. Like, really awesome. So awesome it hurts. Do you know what else is awesome? Lists. So what have we done? Why, we’ve only gone and written down the names of our 20 favourite mods of all time in an unordered list, and we’re only going to write about one of them every day for the next month (except weekends, when we’ll do a sleep).

This introductory post will function as a hub for the whole lot, so each time a new mod on our list is unveiled, a link to the corresponding post will appear here. Okay, then. Here we go. The mods we think you’d be absolutely bonkers not to play.

1. They Hunger – Half-Life single-player, 1999-2001 (episodic)
2. Oblivion Lost - S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl single-player, 2008
3. The Cassandra Project – Deus Ex single-player, 2003 (episodic, but only one ever released)
4. Minerva: Metastasis – Half-Life 2 single-player, 2005-2007 (episodic)
5. The Nameless Mod – Deus Ex single-player, 2009
6. Defence of the Ancients – Warcraft III multiplayer, 2003
7. Research & Development – Half-Life 2 single-player, 2009
8. Radiator – Half-Life 2 single-player, 2009-2010 (episodic)
9. Oscuro’s Oblivion Overhaul - Oblivion single-player, 2006
10. Dear Esther – Half-Life 2 single-player, 2008
11. Killing Floor – Unreal Tournament 2004 multiplayer, 2004
12. Natural Selection – Half-Life multiplayer, 2002
13. Dystopia - Half-Life 2 multiplayer, 2007
14. Team Fortress and Descendants - Various multiplayer, 1996 onwards
15. Garry’s Mod - Half-Life 2 sandbox, 2005
16. Multi Theft Auto - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas multiplayer, 2009
17. Project Reality – Battlefield 2 multiplayer, 2006 onwards
18. MechWarrior: Living Legends – Crysis multiplayer, 2009
19. The Ball – Unreal Tournament 3 single-player, 2009
20. Counter-Strike – Half-Life multiplayer, 1999