It lets them download, install and update every local mod file. It provides convenient management of mods for popular PC game titles. In addition to serving as a great mod organization tool, It can also serve the role of the game launcher for your library of supported games. As of 2019, this app was renamed into Vortex, which introduced a greatly redesigned user interface and brought new tools for faster and easier mod handling, organization, installation and uninstallation of mods.
Originally released in 2015, This game management tool received numerous updates and extensions of its capabilities.
It has built-in integration with modern browsers that allows single-click acquisition of new mods, intuitive interface for managing all the mods for your detected games, auto-sorting, mod profiles, expanded functionality with plugins, customizable UI elements, save game manager and much more. While the vast majority of the mods and supported games requires users to manually download, install and manage their mods, This is a highly useful companion app that can help download, manage, install and uninstall mods for over 60 of most popular games on Nexus Mod website, including hits such as Dark Souls, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Witcher 3, and many others. Ranging in their functionality from small custom configuration files that unlock hidden game features to large multi-gigabyte total-conversion mods that can change every visual, audio and gameplay aspect of the game, Nexus Mods very quickly became home of over thins of thousands of mods for (as of late 2019) over 800 supported games.
This software is also known as “Vortex” is the official open-source mod manager for Nexus Mods, a popular online website that allows users from all around the world to upload and download custom modifications for PC video games.