Best God Of War Mods

Even though God of War is already an outstanding hack n’ slash game complete with intense combat and compelling characters, there’s always room for improvement.

Since bringing the PlayStation exclusive to PC, Sony has opened the floodgates for modders to dive into God of War’s files and start making some significant alterations.

In this list, we’ll showcase “the best God of War mods for PC in 2025” and guide you through how they each affect the game’s performance and visuals.

We’ll continue to update this list as fresh mods capture our attention, so make sure to check back and let us know if we missed any of your cherished God of War PC mods!

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If you’ve been looking forward to playing God of War on PC for a while, there’s a solid chance you’ve already had some of the game spoiled, whether that be segments of the story or gameplay.

There’s also a wonderful chance you’d like to see everything the game has to offer on your initial playthrough, which is only possible by using a modded save like enzonahuy’s God of War NG Plus Save File.

This mod downloads an imported save from the PS4 version with nearly full progression across three versions with varying predetermined stat amounts based on your intended balance.

It can feel surprising to see the Ghost of Sparta bringing a shield into battle for any dedicated fans that have been with the series from the very beginning.

With trollaxethrower’s Invisible Shield mod, you can get recapture Kratos’ famous days (or nightmare depending on how you view it) by stripping him of his defensive items, at least visually.

Of course, the shield still functions at a gameplay level, only now you don’t have to look at it while slicing up wicked guys with the Leviathan Axe or Kratos’ dependable Blades of Chaos.

If removing Kratos’ shield wasn’t enough, players can take things a step further by stripping him of all of his clever armor in God of War 2018.

Created by VVVvisalVVV, the Clean Invisible Armor and Wrist Armor mod aims to strip the mighty warrior of his latest Midgard upgrades and keep just the vital essentials.

For Kratos, this boils down to a pair of trousers, a belt/skirt, and his wrist wraps; the upper half of his body is left entirely bare, allowing you to see more of his renowned Spartan tattoo.

Whether for performance or artistic purposes, God of War tends to be heavy-handed with its atmospheric haze in certain regions such as the realm of Alfheim.

This can make it challenging to make out parts of the scenery and player-sensitive objects like chests and artifacts if you’re not being too attentive.

If this is something that concerns you, feel free to install Poponos’ Less Fog and No Fog mod, which serves the purpose of either reducing or completely eliminating God of War’s in-game fog.

Sony has gotten a lot better at ensuring their PC ports are well-optimized at launch with every recent release, with God of War having the most perfect performance out the box.

This isn’t too astonishing seeing as it was designed to run on older hardware but if you still find yourself having difficulty getting it to run, particularly on AMD graphics cards, this mod is for you.

With Instanity’s Vulkan Launcher altered DLL file, you can run God of War on the Vulkan API, in turn, netting you a performance boost of about 10 FPS on various AMD GPUs.

Thanks to a host of optical enhancements for the PC port, God of War manages to look just as stunning as it did when it first debuted on the PS4 years ago.

However, it still features some controversial graphical processes, namely TAA or Temporal Antialiasing, which has a tendency of smoothening rougher edges at the cost of making objects appear more blurry.

Therefore, players running the game on resolutions above 1080p may want to consider installing Poponos’ No TAA No DOF mod to remove its effects along with Depth of Field for sharper visuals.

Anyone who wishes to improve God of War’s visuals further is invited to explore the growing selection of reshade mods available for the game.

Our two preferred at the moment are William252555’s GOW Regrade and kwz’s Odin Reshade, which go for entirely different looks compared to vanilla God of War.

GOW Regrade focuses on subtle enhancements to colors, shadows, and sharpness of tone mapping, while Odin changes colors and increases contrast to highlight shadows and make the world more gloomy.

A typical grievance regarding console ports, or really AAA games in general is the enormous number of intro videos and startup screens they have to cycle through before getting to the real game menu.

It would appear this PC gaming gripe is shared by many considering modder Instanity went out of their way to make a God of War mod that bypasses the PlayStation intro video on startup.

Even if the difference is only a few seconds, that’s less time spent reminded of who funded and produced the game and more time spent slicing up Draugr with an enchanted axe.

Last but not least, this mod harkens back to Kratos’ early days before he grew out his thick beard and became everyone’s cherished dad.

Yet again courtesy of modder Poponos, the Kratos No Eyebrows No Beard mod makes a simple fix to the Ghost of Sparta’s appearance that leaves him completely bald, well almost.

Kratos does manage to hold onto some of his rough through visible five o’clock shadow across his upper lip, lower jaw, and neck areas.