These Are My Own Saves — 70TB of Backups Later

The savegames you'll find here are all personal ones

— I haven't scraped them from another website. They're purely the result of thousands of hours in front of my computer.

Of course, over time I lost many savegames — even for games I'd already completed — mainly because at one point I only kept a single backup copy, and it lived on an external hard drive... which one day died on me! That's why I now keep several external drives (more than 70TB) and plenty of copies 😏

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Where PC Games Actually Store Their Saves

Before you download anything, you need to know where to drop these files so the game recognizes them. And here's the frustrating truth: there is no standard. Every developer decides where to store saves — some use AppData, some use Documents, some bury them inside the Steam folder, and a few hide them in the game's own install directory.

I won't always list the exact path for each game below (honestly, I don't even remember most of them 😅).

But here's a method that works for any PC game:

The 4 places to check first (they cover the vast majority of games):

1. Press Win + R, type %APPDATA% and hit Enter → look for a folder named after the game or the studio
2. Same trick with %LOCALAPPDATA% (and check the LocalLow subfolder too — many Unity games live there)
3. C:\Users\YourName\Documents\My Games\
4. C:\Users\YourName\Saved Games\

Two traps to watch out for on Windows 11:

• OneDrive often hijacks your Documents folder and redirects it to C:\Users\YourName\OneDrive\Documents\. So if Documents\My Games\ looks empty, check the OneDrive version too — the save might be there instead.

• AppData is hidden by default. In File Explorer, click "View" → tick "Hidden Items" to see it.

The nuclear option:

if none of that works, download the free tool Everything (a lightning-fast file search), and search for the game's name or a save extension like .sav, .dat or .ess. It scans your entire PC in seconds and finds saves no matter how deep they're buried.

One last tip: some of my saves may contain my old Windows profile name or Steam ID in the folder path. If a save doesn't load, check whether the folder name includes a user ID that needs to be swapped for yours.

Nothing sensitive in there — just a path thing.

How to Actually Back Up Your Saves (Do This Now)

Since backups are the whole reason this page exists, here's the method I wish someone had taught kid-me before the Datasette ate my Bard's Tale progress:

1. Find the save folder (see the section above).
2. Copy the whole folder — don't cut it — to a separate location: a second drive, a USB stick, or a cloud folder.
3. Do it before big moments: right before a boss, a point of no return, or a story choice you might want to redo. I've been doing this since Dark Souls, and it's saved me countless times.
4. Don't rely on Steam Cloud alone. Cloud sync is great, but it can also overwrite a good local save with a corrupted one, or fail silently. A manual copy on your own drive answers to nobody but you.

And why keep end-game saves specifically?

Because when a sequel drops, some games let you import your previous ending to shape the new story (the Mass Effect and Witcher series are famous for it). Having a clean "finished the game" save sitting in a backup folder means you're ready the day the sequel lands 😎 That's half the reason this collection exists.

The Save Files (Free Download)

Alright — here's the list of savegames I'm sharing. All free, all mine.

Sometimes I mention when I didn't kill an optional boss (too hard, or I got fed up trying 😅).

This page was last updated on July 18, 2026, Revised and Corrected by Claude AI, with 33 savegame packs available.

The files below are all in .ZIP, some are quite big, and you can download them for free. It would be pretty strange to charge people for this anyway, lol... nobody would pay for it!! 😅

Some packs contain more saves than others, and sometimes you'll find folders called "Batch" — that means the game only allowed a handful of save slots, so to keep them all I had to split them into subfolders. Note: sometimes the most recent save can even be inside a backup subfolder.