

Those mods are the product of dedicated communities of fans and players, and what follows are some of the most active ones we have today. And there is no denying that some of the more recent games like Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto V have thrived as much as they have on the back of mods. Early examples include Valve's Team Fortress, which was originally a Quake mod back in the day, and Counter-Strike, which was a Half-Life mod. Some of the biggest games we've gotten over the years actually started out as mods themselves.

RELATED: The 10 Best Game Mods of 2019, Ranked Think of them as the fanfiction of gaming, where anyone with the skill and imagination can make alterations to the game and how it plays. These user-created modifications run the gamut from performance-enhancing to purely hilarious. With nearly every major release, you can be certain that there will be a dedicated subset of fans just waiting to alter the game in some way, shape, or form. One of the joys of gaming on a PC is the access to a vast array of mods that comes along with doing so.
