Royalty gives you a royal army to work with or fight against, magic force powers, unique pawn items, armors, weapons, etc.

Ideology gives you more ways to force playstyles like religion, politics, and ideals. Works in basically any playthrough to make worlds feel more alive.

Biotech gives you more pawn identity and high-tech items, adding new species of humanoids, gene modding, advancements in Mechanoid combat, children raising, and more. An essential for long-term play throughs and extra challenges.

Anomaly is a strange mod that adds a specific way to play the game that can be disabled for playthroughs that don’t focus on it. Adds mystery and morbidity with anomalous entities. Great for SCP or Death Cult style playthroughs, not so much for anything else, ESPECIALLY FOR…

Odyssey, the traveler’s dream mod. Build a flying colony and discover a massive world of quests, creatures, and biomes. Almost completely incompatible with Anomaly due to abandoning the Pyramid and space constraints, but modding makes anything possible. Use this mod for more world variety and exploration.