Unless you live under a rock or haven’t logged online you probably know that today, April 22 2025, the highly anticipated remaster of Bethesda’s classic Oblivion was fully revealed and shadow dropped. With that, many have wondered since Bethesda has a history of being good to the modding community, whether or not this game will support mods.

Unfortunately, Bethesda have already confirmed that they will not be supporting mods with this release. However, that hasn’t stopped the modding community from getting to work. Nexus mods already has a page up for the game that is quickly growing (at the time of this writing, the game already has three pages of mods). These mods already go beyond the typical asset swaps the Unreal Engine 5 games are known for.

Bethesda likely won’t even be releasing an official creation kit for the game and with that road block, mods will not be coming to Xbox or PlayStation. With all of that said, there has been an interesting development, over on Reddit it’s been confirmed that game files for Oblivion Remaster have been opened in The Elders Scrolls Construction Set, a tool designed to edit the original Oblivion’s game files:

Also, over on Nexus mods, modders are already confirming they can in fact load some of the files for their mods for the original game, but it appears some work will still need to be done to get it up an running.

In other happy news, the Skyblivion team confirmed that Bethesda have given entire Skyblivion development team Oblivion Remastered codes early for their efforts creating in recreating Oblivion in Skyrim’s engine:

So no, Oblivion Remaster won’t officially support mods, but that has never stopped the very passionate modding community and it won’t this time either. All I hope is none of the official updates the game receives in the future make life for Bethesda modders any harder than it needs to be. Here’s hoping, Bethesda don’t spoil the fun.