There are tons of absolutely huge quest mods in Skyrim, and one that already had an entire plague spreading like a veritable epidemic just got a lot bigger thanks to recent, add-on-packed remakes. It’s called Death Consumes All and is inspired by the brilliant Hearts of Stone DLC for The Witcher 3.
You may have already played original version Death Consumes All, which released in 2020, has amassed over 100,000 total downloads on Nexus Mods since then, as people watched the 10-hour branching and fully voiced questline that its creator Anbeegod put together and said, “Don’t worry if I do it.”
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Since then, the modder has been busy working on a recent version that changes basically everything, increasing the length of the main quest line to around 30 hours. It has just been released to the public under the not-so-different title “Death Consumes All – DLC Quest Mod (Improved)‘.
The premise is the same as its predecessor – a deadly plague spreads across Skyrim through a gameplay system designed to mirror the spread of an epidemic in the real world, threatening to “devour everything” and turn everyone into undead creatures. Together with a full-fledged follower named Livia Salvian, you must “fight terrifying enemies, uncover the truth behind the terror, and decide the fate of the kingdom.”
That said, a lot has changed with the recent version of the mod. Anbeegod writes that they have “completely rebuilt most of the original quests for much better flow, storytelling and writing,” and have also added “new quests with deep storytelling and a variety of choices” – including a fresh introductory quest – to bring an overall boost from “over 13” to “over 17”. Aspects such as voice acting have also been improved, as the total number of lines of dialogue in the mod has increased by 1,000.
They also added the ability to “turn off the plague” and stop it from completely killing people, something medieval peasants could actually do in the 14th century. Other fixes will hopefully make battles better designed and balanced, as well as reduce the number of bugs and mod conflicts you’re likely to run into.
It certainly looks fun if you’re up for 30 hours of dim and muddy fighting the undead while your Dragonborn wonders what he did to deserve being involved in so many different apocalypses. Anbeegod also suggested that “50% of the donation points earned for this mod will be shared with Doctors Without Borders to fight the epidemic in real life,” which is nice.
