

In fact, it will give a visual update and add in a playlist of mods. Will the Anniversary Edition mess up your mods?Īs of today, upgrading to Skyrim AE should not majorly affect your mods at all. So what happens if you already own Skyrim SE? Bethesda says that current owners and Xbox Game Pass subscribers have the option to upgrade to Skyrim AE for $19.99 USD / $29.95 AUD / €19.99 / £15.99.Įven if you don't buy the Anniversary Edition of the game, those four free Creation Club items have been added to your game for free.

What if you already own Skyrim Special Edition? When upgrading with the Skyrim AE DLC, you'll need to head into the Creation Club section of the main menu and manually choose which pieces you want to install. If you're just installing the free game update to Skyrim SE, you'll find that the free Creation Club items have all been downloaded for you. Players who don't upgrade to Skyrim AE also got four of those Creation Club items free on AE's launch day: the Saints and Seducers quest expansion, Rare Curious expansion, Survival Mode, and the Fishing skill and quests. In total, Bethesda says that the 74 Creation Club items included with Skyrim AE represent over 500 new gameplay elements. Some of the new Creation Club items that arrived alongside Skyrim SE include Morrowind-inspired weapons and armor and a quest expansion called The Cause. The 48 current Creation Club items that you'll get access to as part of Skyrim AE range from special weapons, to new enemy types, quest expansions, and gameplay changes. If you'd forgotten about Bethesda's Creation Club, it's a marketplace of paid DLCs developed either internally by Bethesda or by approved external creators. All 48 previously released Creation Club items.Skyrim's original DLCs: Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn.Here's the Skyrim Anniversary Edition content: If you buy Skyrim Anniversary Edition outright, what you'll be downloading is Skyrim Special Edition and a DLC package. What's included in the Skyrim Anniversary Edition?

In practice, Skyrim Anniversary Edition is a DLC for Skyrim Special Edition, launching alongside a free game update for Skyrim SE. It includes Skyrim SE and also bundles in all of the previously released premium Creation Club additions.

Okay, Skyrim AE is a bit like a Game Of The Year release for Skyrim Special Edition. Bethesda is calling the Anniversary Edition "the most definitive version of Skyrim to date." That's not the most concrete explanation, so it might help to think of Skyrim Anniversary as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - Definitive Edition.
