Each year, beginning around November / December the Mod DB Mod of the Year awards are kicked off. For two months voting is open to everyone, and every mod is eligible (released or not) with the ultimate goal being the unearthing of this years best mod, as decided by you.
During this time, all mod profiles show a big "vote now" button. Members & guests recognise the mods they like by simply pressing the button (note. guests are limited to one vote). After 2 months of voting the competition is locked down and results tallied. The winning mods will be notified and shortly hereafter the results will be shared.
The following list contains the best released mods and indie games of 2005. Every item on this list was choosen by your vote during a 1 month period when we opened a voting booth on all indie game and mod profiles. You can also read our writeup about the top few mods of the year.
+Indie Games
Nexuiz is a fun and free GPL deathmatch shooter. The sci-fi themed shooter is based on the darkplaces engine. Nexuiz adds many more effects and enchancements to the base engine such as bumpmapping,realtime shadows and an advanded new model format. The gam Read on...
Remember 1996's Command & Conquer: Red Alert? Now, enter the fray as a single combatant on the battlefield, fighting alongside the Allies or the Soviets for global supremacy in this mod that adheres to the classic world created by Westwood Studios. Read on...
+BattleField 1942
Welcome to Forgotten Hope, a revitalized Battlefield 1942 that focuses on realism without forgetting the "fun" aspect of playing a video game. Incorporating well over 250 pieces of authentic equipment, this mod looks to reinvent the 1942 formula. Read on...
+Battlefield 2
21st Century Warfare represents the largest BF2 tournament on the internet with over 600 players participating in 12-hour weekend battles using real military rank structure, chain of command and strategy. It's how Battlefield2 is meant to be played! Read on...
A remake of the popular mod for Battlefield 1942, Forgotten Hope 2 is a World War 2 mod that features an arsenal of over 250 pieces of true-life equipment, destructible environments and a focus on cover and concealment to survive. Read on...
Join the ranks of the German Bundeswehr or the Serbian VSCG in this Battlefield 2 mod inspired by the Kosovo conflict. Utilizing then-modern day weapons and equipment, players can attempt to keep the peace in a variety of tactical multiplayer settings. Read on...
Point of Existence 2 is a sequel to a Battlefield: Vietnam modification that places you in the middle of a modern day conflict in the Ukraine that will determine the fate of eastern Europe. The mod features both multiplayer and a single player campaign. Read on...
+BattleField Vietnam
In late 2005, a Russian mineral exploration company discovered a series of large oilfields in southern Sudan. Sudan’s Military government, with its ability to hold the newly revitalised Sudanese People’s Liberation Army at bay beginning to falter, decided Read on...
+C&C: Generals
Blitzkrieg II is a World War 2 total conversion for Command and Conquer: Generals. You can fight as the Allies(with America, UK and France as subsides), Axis(with Tank, Rocket and Jet research tree's) or the Soviets(with Tank and Homeland Defence sub Read on...
+C&C: Generals Zero Hour
C&C ShockWave focuses on the need for diversity in a Zero Hour campaign. How does 100 new units grab you? Or the promise of 3 new generals, new maps, new music, sound, visuals and more? Once the shockwave hits, expect the balance to grow very fragile. Read on...
Just because the Command & Conquer series is returning to its GDI \ NOD roots with its next title doesn't mean the fan community can't continue the story with Red Alert 3, a continuation of Yuri's Revenge for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. Read on...
Development is suspended. Разработка приостоновлена. English Description: StarKiller it's multi-genre game project (RTS, Arcade, RPG, Racing) with many parody elements for console and PC games (StarCraft, Mortal Kombat, Pacmen and etc.) and movi Read on...
+Counter-Strike: Source
The team at zombiehorde.com are proud to present Zombie Horde v1.0, the often imitated premier Zombification plugin for Counter-Strike Source. Since April 2005 we have been bringing the zombies to the Counter Strike scene for all to enjoy, this release is Read on...
+Dawn of War
For Warhammer 40K buffs, the Tau Mod brings the Tau race to the forefront of Dawn of War, with its own unique artificial intelligence, units, models and features. Prepare to battle in the future with a force that deserves to be reckoned with! Read on...
Ever wanted to play as the classic Tyranid race from the Warhammer 40K universe? Now you can in this Dawn of War mod that allows you to both face off against and utilize this alien menace, while keeping them true to the source material that spawned 'em. Read on...
+Doom III
A server and client side multiplayer mod for Doom3 giving both the client and server admins the ability to configure most aspects of the multiplayer experience of Doom3 for fun and competetive play. This is the only mod of it's type for Doom3 and is Read on...
Fight for your life in this re-envisioning of the Classic Doom formula. Last Man Standing is a cooperative multiplayer frag fest where you and your buddies can shoot your way through the single player campaign or battle for supremacy in several new maps. Read on...
+Half-Life
ESF is a fast paced, 3rd person fighter based on the hit anime, Dragonball Z. Select your favorite character and fly, power up, transform, melee, and beam your enemies into pulp. Each character is given signature moves and abilities to compliment differen Read on...
Welcome to the crazy world of Hammy-Bob Mod (Half-Life Modification). If your new to the mod of HBM then get ready for a mod that is a little different from its peers. While most of the modding community is working towards achieving realism the HBM team i Read on...
IOS is a first and third person online multiplayer soccer game that aims to be the online equivalent of great console soccer games but with a true multiplayer teamplay experience. IOS requires Half-Life. You can join a public game of IOS at any time durin Read on...
Natural Selection is an action-strategy game for the PC. It is a "Half-life modification", which means it is written on top of the Half-life game engine. "Mods" are a new sort of underground game development that enables small teams to create games using Read on...
Sven Co-op is a modification that allows co-operative multiplayer (where players fight together against monsters/etc.) in Half-Life. It also adds some features to make co-op play more interesting. New Monsters include: Baby Gargantua, faster and smaller t Read on...
Who And When "The Trenches" is a World War I mod for the Half-Life engine. Included in our first release are the British and Germans, two large players of the "Great War". Players will be able to fight for their homelands with six diff Read on...
+Half-Life 2
The Battle Grounds 2(BG2) is a Half-Life 2 multiplayer modification based on the revolutionary war. It is the sequel to the popular HL1 mod with even more features and possibilities. Again the Royal British Army battles it out against the Colonial United Read on...
Combine Destiny is a Half-life 2 Horror and Action Singleplayer Modification Read on...
Play through the epic Dragonball saga in DragonBall Source, an action RPG that features all of the quests and characters you love from the show, but expanded upon! The full mod will have both a single and multiplayer game, plus cooperative mode. Read on...
Welcome to the future, where plague and degradation reign supreme and powerful corporations run the world. Dystopia is a cyberpunk multiplayer battle mod where two teams of augmented soldiers, hackers and warriors battle for virtual supremacy. Read on...
Empires is a RTS \ FPS hybrid multiplayer game, where two teams fight for supremacy in a never-ending war. One player in each team takes the role of commander, building and harvesting resources while the rest take to the battlefield FPS style! Read on...
Eternal Silence 2, a sequel to a Battlefield 1942 mod, brings deep space multiplayer combat to the Source engine. Jump into a fighter plane and dogfight amongst the asteroids or board an enemy ship and engage in ground battles in this galactic war. Read on...
Long before Team Fortress 2 reemerged from relative obscurity, Fortress Forever was working hard to bring Team Fortress's classic gameplay to the Source engine. Though a port of the classic game, FF promises to go above and beyond the original. Read on...
Imagine a toolset that allows you to take the basic framework of Half-Life 2 and bend it to your liking. Garry's Mod is a Half-Life 2 sandbox mod, allowing users to easily modify in-game stats, play with character models, build their own mods, and more. Read on...
Goldeneye Source is a remake of the classic Nintendo 64 game that made console first person shooters a force to be reckoned with. While not an exact duplicate of the original, the team is working with community opinion to make a mod for all to enjoy. Read on...
Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag brings the familiar Capture the Flag game to HL2. It pits the Rebels against the Combine in a fast-paced battle over the flags within the graphics rich environment of the Source engine. The mod is an homage to the fast-paced Read on...
He stalks in the shadows. Watching. Waiting. Killing without warning, forcing you to run and hide, to fight to the last man in this brutal, yet innovative Half-Life 2 multiplayer game. Survival horror takes on a new meaning when death carries a knife. Read on...
Overview HL²DM Pro is regular HL²MP from VALVe with additional features that make the game faster and more addictive and fun to play. The Tau Canon aka Gauss, longjump pack, bunny hopping, wall jump, brightskin models and hitsound are part of it for insta Read on...
Insects Infestation concept combines combat capabilities and strategy oriented gaming. In fact, it does not only allow to shoot anybody at anytime but it emphasizes on team play tactics. Obviously based on insects point of view, II will offer its player t Read on...
Insurgency slips you into the role of a modern combatant in this multiplayer combat mod, engaging in military operations all across the world in both fictional and real-life conflicts. Players will need to utilize tactics and their squad mates to survive. Read on...
In an alternate universe, the Soviet Union rules with an iron fist, it's people mere pawns beneath their might. Now, as a ragtag rebel army, you must rise up against them in this genre-defying real time strategy \ first person shooter online game. Read on...
What is Kreedz Climbing (KZMOD)? Kreedz Climbing is a unique, non-violent, puzzle-type, 3D-First Person game where the player attempts to jump, surf, bungee, bunnyhop, dance or race his way to the top of any given environment, in a race against time and a Read on...
Caught in the clutches of a rogue artificial intelligence, you must make a desperate strike against the Combine if you are to survive. MINERVA is a single-player modification that features some of the best map work since Half-Life 2 itself! Read on...
In an alternate universe close to our own, something has gone very wrong. When we try to connect to them, chaos erupts across the planet as giant numbers fall from the sky and alien warships tear through our cities. Now, what would you do? Read on...
Perfect Dark, one of the most influential first person shooters on the console market alongside GoldenEye and Halo, now finds a new home on the Source engine. Prepare to rediscover old-school gameplay, in the next-generation! Read on...
Plan of Attack is a multiplayer first-person shooter that highlights strategy, teamplay, and out-thinking your enemy. Gameplay features include multiple objective choices per map, skill classes and experience points, and alternating attack and defend roun Read on...
Prodod is a third party Day of Defeat: Source mod that builds on the foundation set down by DOD:S. Various key values from DOD:S have been changed to better suit the competitive community, as well as correct certain things in the game that Valve has consi Read on...
It's Combine Forces versus the Rebel Insurgency in a capture the flag grudgematch--with a twist. Build walls, barricades and bridges to give yourself the edge in battle, then take the fight to your opponent in one of the wildest Source mods ever made. Read on...
Half-Life²:SUBSTANCE GOLD gives your single player games harder challenges and hectic action: 4 gamemodes to test your skills with, a wide array of weapons and 5 different player classes to best suit your gaming style. Welcome to the real Substance, what Read on...
+Halo
This Conversion of Halo is based on the Next Generation "Sonic The Hedgehog" game , all the Sonic cast will be in the game , as well as some new additions , lots of Multiplayer levels to go around. Read on...
+Homeworld 2
Star Wars mod for Homeworld 2 now includes clone wars ships still in beta stages Think total annihilation and you'll know where the inspiration for the scope came from. Over 100 Star Wars ships taken from the entirety of official SW material (will no Read on...
+Max Payne 2
Cleric John Preston is out for revenge. He knows his enemy and it's time to enact vengeance for those that have fallen. Hall of Mirrors recreates the climactic battle from the movie Equilibruim and incorporates Gun-Kata combat in Max Payne 2's game modes. Read on...
+Morrowind
Ashes of Apocalypse: Zero-One An Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Total Conversion Overview According to our records, we should now be surviving the year 2073. It is hard to believe this place was once called Earth. Little life still endures and sees the sun Read on...
+Neverwinter Nights
For years the world was bathed in darkness... Communities dwindled, lack of sunlight made plants wither and die, animal life largely perished... For what seemed like ages, this was the state of the world. Now, the sound of large wings has been heard in t Read on...
+Operation Flashpoint
First total conversion for Operation Flashpoint Resistance. Reworked config including for example more realistic recoils and weapon specs. New sounds for all OFP weapon systems, weather and enviroment. Finnish Defence Forces modelled in meticulous detail. Read on...
+Postal 2
Do you find yourself dissatisfied with maiming innocent civilians in your day to day life? Well, try it Apocalypse Weekend style, with all new weapons to make your drab week that much more violent and fulfilling! Come on, give the scythe a try. Read on...
A deranged mental patient on the run, an army of the undead and a town full of innocent civilians collide in Eternal Damnation, a Postal 2 mod that boasts a full length single player campaign, new weapons and more gore than you ever thought possible. Read on...
+Quake 4
GTX is a graphic mod developed for Doom3 and Quake4 that enhance the game experience with new graphic effects never seen before in the game. Read on...
+Star Wars: Jedi Academy
100 new character models. 70 new light sabers. 50 new missions. 40 new vehicles. Over 1.4 gigabytes in content. And one of the most ambitious Star Wars mods around. Knights of the Force aims to deliver more content than even a trained Jedi can handle. Read on...
Unsheath your lightsaber, get your force on and leap into the classic Star Wars battles in this mod that brings George Lucas's vision home in a series of team-based conflicts, allowing you to battle as Sith vs Jedi, Rebellion vs Empire & Clones vs Droids! Read on...
+Unreal Tournament 2004
Alien Swarm is an overhead view tactical squad-based shooter for UT2K4. Set in the the distant future, the players take the role of a Commander in the Interstellar Armed Forces. They must guide their squad of marines through Swarm infested colonies, overr Read on...
Red Orchestra is the award winning state of the art total conversion that pits players in scale combat of the most intense and grueling warfare in history; the Eastern Front conflict of World War II. Real missions set in real scale settings -- from elite Read on...
The Game Inspired by TacticalOps, a game based on Epic's awardwinning UnrealEngine, a group of friends took an ambitious step, creating a sequel to their favorite game on a new level of UnrealTechnology. Led by the people behind TacticalOps and TOST Read on...
These mods and indie games have not made it to release yet, but that hasn't stopped us dreaming about them. These are the titles everyone wants to play, but cannot, so lets get behind the development teams and help them reach release in 2006. Presenting to you the best upcoming mods and indie games of 2005.
+Indie Games
1944 D-Day : Operation Overlord is the simulation of an event. It does not strive to tell the story of one unit or one squad. Instead it endeavors to tell the story of the battle. The game at its core is driven by a highly adaptable AI system, this AI sys Read on...
Make a name for yourself in one of the largest, most open-ended space sims ever made. Infinity utilizes procedural techniques to generate hundreds of thousands of seamless worlds, all ripe for privateers to pillage, explore, trade and battle over! Read on...
Nosferatu is a teambased multiplayer first person shooter. It involves roundbased (each player has 1 life round just like in the famous game counterstrike) only this game pits vampires vs slayers. Read on...
+Battle for Middle Earth II
Star Wars: Battle for the Galaxy The flames of war have spread far across the Galaxy, as more and more worlds are engulfed by the conflict between the waring factions. Nearly all planets feel the heat of battle, conflicts span the galaxy from Coruscant t Read on...
+Battle for Middle-earth
The Rhovanion Alliance is a mod for BfME 1. The mod is like an unofficial expansion. The first thing we do is expanding the excisting factions, adding a lot of new units and heroes, redoing their models and skins, and changing the upgrade. After that we w Read on...
+Battlefield 2
Battlefield 40k's Mission Is to transform the Tabletop game of Games Workshops Warhammer 40,000 into an FPS for the Battlefield 2 Engine. The purpose of our mod project is to put six races in game. The aim for first release is focusing on Imperial Guard C Read on...
Battlefield: Apocalypse - A Battlefield 2 Full Conversion They say the world was green once. Trees and grass. I've seen the pictures, but it's still hard to believe. How the hell did we come to this? There are a hundred different stories, and wh Read on...
Battlegroup 2 is the World War 2 Historical Accuracy and Teamwork mod. We strive for enjoyable gameplay while aiming for historical accuracy with the right vehicles and weapons are on the right maps (though we have no Nazi imagery in our mod). We have rel Read on...
+C&C: Generals Zero Hour
1980. The United States and Russia eye one another, preparing an all-out assault that will span continents and an entire decade. Cold War Crisis features realistic period units and equipment while keeping the game fresh, instantly playable and fun. Read on...
Also known as ROTR, Rise of the Reds will add the Russian faction into the "General's" world while staying true to the style of the original game in both design and gameplay. In addition ROTR will also improve the the original game and add new units and s Read on...
Relive the battles of Vietnam in this C&C Generals mod that recreates many historical conflicts, such as Operation Flaming Dart and the Tet Offensive. Custom trees, true-to-life vehicle support and new units should help capture the reality of this war. Read on...
+Dawn of War
Eclipse of Existence is a modification for the PC game Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War that introduces the Necrons as a playable race. This will include a variety of artwork you know from the tabletop, and most of the units such as the warrior, wraith, and Read on...
+Deus Ex
Story: Some people will claim that there was a time when PlanetDeusEx Forum City was at peace. A time when the city prospered and all citizens treated each other with respect and kindness. A time when there was no crime and no poverty, and where everyone Read on...
+Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The goal is to unite all 3 GTA games under one roof, adding the worldscapes of both Liberty City and Vice City to the San Andreas worldscape, essentially creating one hugely massive game world Read on...
+Half-Life 2
It is mankind's most basic nature to destroy what he creates, to one day turn a season of peace into one of war. Badge of Blood will use Valve's Source engine from Half-Life 2 to tell a dramatic narrative of a bitter independence war fought betw Read on...
Black Mesa: Source is a remake of the original Half-Life for the Source engine, recreating one of the most influential PC games ever made for a whole new audience. This redone version will also feature a rebuilt multiplayer and cooperative mode. Read on...
Brawl will consist of 9 player models 12 maps along with 20 weapons. The aim of the mod is survival. Who can fight and who cant. Imagine hold moves, pushing, throwing and if we can combo moves. The first release may not have it all and a more detail de Read on...
Fight as the Undead or Living humans in this epic team based multiplayer mod. Read on...
Dragonball Adventures Dragonball Adventures(DBA) is a Half-Life 2 conversion based on anime written by Akira Toriyama and corresponding movies. With selectable characters, play as heroes and villains alike. Single Player Single player gameplay follows Read on...
A government created plague has been let loose, wiping out most of humanity in just three years. Those that survived have formed three groups in this post-apocalyptic urban combat mod, where only the ruthless will know power and conflict is a way of life. Read on...
Frontline Force was originaly released in 2000 for HL by Adrian "Pink" Finol (now with VALVe Software). The mod is a first person shooter which promotes teamwork in a FAST paced quick respawn environment. Standing still or camping will only get Read on...
From the well known RPG/FPS hybrid, Master Sword, comes a remake that will eventually quintuple the current realm of Daragoth. With the permission of the original Master Sword team, we are taking over the project with a whole new team. We will, and in som Read on...
Mech Assault Genesis is a 3rd person shooter/ fighting game that will be based on the mech combat from the series Mobile Suit Gundam : SEED/Destiny. There will be a large variety of MobileSuit's to choose from, many of which are customizeable. Our fi Read on...
Mission Statement: Neotokyo is a first person shooter that aims to provide a visceral & realistic combat experience in a rich futuristic setting. Background Story and World: Neotokyo takes place in and around a fictionalized Tokyo approximately 30 years Read on...
The rebels trained you. The Combine corrupted you. Now, you are on the run, a test subject gone wild, a menace and a threat to everyone you once knew and loved. And in this single player foray back into the Half-Life 2 universe, heads are 'gunna roll. Read on...
Destructible weapons, sprawling environments and armies of the undead await you in this multiplayer Half-Life 2 mod. As part of a rag-tag group of survivors, utilize the environment, work with your comrades and run for your life as the dead begin to walk. Read on...
Off Limits: Off Limits will be a teambased multiplayer Half-Life² modification. The gameplay will revolve around two teams attempting to take out a small, agressive, playercontrolled alien. The vanguard team will start the round with the only gun that can Read on...
For more information, please visit our website. If you want to help, ask in the forum. Perfect Dark ... This game had an incredible success and aura, but you already know that. This game would deserve one minute of silence, in order to let us remember all Read on...
Hull Breach (www.hull-breach.com) is an ambitious, community driven, truly inspirational total conversion for VALVE’s award winning Half-Life 2 Source Engine. Our unique project is pushing the boundaries of online gaming by incorporating the inspiration a Read on...
Raccoon City. The T-Virus is out of control, turning people and animals alike into walking, undead monsters. As Alex Baker, players must fight to survive the last 24-hours that the city still has--before the Umbrella Corporation destroys it! Read on...
In the early hours of June 6th, the 82nd Airborne dropped into Normandy with the eventual goal of capturing the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Enter their struggle in a mod that not only focuses on realism, but removes the gimmicks of most FPS games as well. Read on...
Enter a world of magic and high fantasy in Return to Mana, a Co-Op multiplayer game that harkens back to the SNES. For, as the world turns, the beast stirs, for time flows like a river, history repeats and the time of the return of mana soon approaches... Read on...
Spirit Of Konoha is Naruto anime based MOD for Half-Life 2 enigne. It features your favorite anime characters and their jutsus. We want to make it special, and the first Naruto MOD out to the public! We are determined to finish it no matter what! Everyone Read on...
Sven Co-op for Half-Life 2, sequel to the popular Sven Co-op mod for Half-Life, will add co-operative multiplayer (players vs. computer-controlled enemies) to Valve's "Half-Life 2" (Among other things). Sven Co-op, the original Half-Life co Read on...
+Star Wars: Empire At War
"Imperial Assault II: Rise of the Empire" is a Clone Wars modification for Petroglyph's "Empire at War". It will add the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems allowing players to experience both "The Re Read on...
Expand upon the basic unit set of Empire at War with this mod that adds Rebels, Imperials, Yuuzhan Vong, and Galactic Alliance forces to both the single and multiplayer campaigns. Want to change the course of Star Wars history? Here is your chance. Read on...
+Unreal Tournament 2004
Dragonball Z Heroes Of Our Destiny is a Total Conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004 the newest and improved engine based on the popular manga series Dragon Ball Z. This mod will be a multiplayer first released game and is the first dbz rpg game ever to be Read on...
+Warcraft III
Project Revolution intends to bring Starcraft: Brood War into glorious 3D, by porting it to the Warcraft 3 engine. No new races, characters or units will be added to the mix: Just a straight, fully-rendered port of a classic game. Read on...