Vortex
Vortex is the new, modern mod manager from Nexus Mods. It is designed to make modding your game as simple as possible for new users, while still providing enough control for more experienced veterans of the modding scene.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Mods
Tags
- gaming-utility
- mod-manager
- Game
- mod-managers
Vortex News & Activities
Recent activities
- soul1472 liked Vortex
- braky updated Vortex
- coth reviewed Vortex
Badly designed application. Using electron for no reason. This should have been simple Win32 app. So hogs a lot of RAM. Also require admin access for no reason. They say for symlinks, but symlinks do not require admin access in user owned folders. UI is quite messy and poorly scales. Still defaulting mod installation into USER folder, instead of installation folder, when installed onto separate drive. Creating and launching JS scripts when performing operations. There is Win32 API for that. You...
- Ituaf updated Vortex
POX added Vortex as alternative to Hedge Mod Manager- spx300 liked Vortex
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What is Vortex?
Vortex is the new, modern mod manager from Nexus Mods. It is designed to make modding your game as simple as possible for new users, while still providing enough control for more experienced veterans of the modding scene. Lead by Tannin, the creator of Mod Organizer, Vortex takes the lessons learnt during the development of MO and Nexus Mod Manager to provide the most powerful and intuitive modding experience available.
Our approach with Vortex aims to take complex tasks such as sorting your load order or managing your mod files and automates as much of the process as possible with the goal of having you achieve a stable modded game with minimal effort. We want to help you spend less time modding and more time playing your games.
Why Vortex?
MULTI-GAME SUPPORT With mod support for over 30 different games and counting - from Dark Souls, Fallout and Skyrim, to the Witcher series and Stardew Valley - Vortex is the most versatile mod manager available.
CLOSE INTEGRATION WITH NEXUS MODS Vortex is designed to seamlessly interact with Nexus Mods allowing you to easily find, install, and play mods from our site, learn about new files and catch the latest news.
MODDING MADE EASY The built-in auto-sorting system manages your load order and helps you to resolve mod conflicts with powerful, yet easy to use plugin management features.
MOD PROFILES Easily set up, switch between, and manage independent mod profiles enabling you to use exactly the combination of mods that you want for a particular playthrough.
MODERN, EASY TO USE UI Featuring a fully customisable interface, Vortex allows you to quickly and easily access tools and manage your games, plugins, downloads and save games.
EXTENSIONS AND PLUGINS Vortex is released under a GPL-3 License giving our community the ability to write extensions and frameworks which can then interact with Vortex, continually adding to its functionality.











Comments and Reviews
Badly designed application. Using electron for no reason. This should have been simple Win32 app. So hogs a lot of RAM. Also require admin access for no reason. They say for symlinks, but symlinks do not require admin access in user owned folders. UI is quite messy and poorly scales. Still defaulting mod installation into USER folder, instead of installation folder, when installed onto separate drive. Creating and launching JS scripts when performing operations. There is Win32 API for that. You don't scripts.
FOSS is great but feels like a step back compared to Nexus Mod Manager. Constant scrolling when you have a large mod list, can't drag and drop anymore, lots of wasted space on the GUI.
The automatic prompts that only give you "apply changes" or "quit Vortex" as options does not instill a sense of control over what you can do.
Crap. Every damn game needs some special config and this config is pulled from NM and guess what - it never works. Nothing in this garbage client works. Doesn't help that Nexus has been crap for years, no longer a mod site but rather a drama generator for the admin. 0/10 not functional