Please allow mid day save/load

[croepha]

First off, this is a fantastic game. My wife and I are having a blast taking turns playing while the other takes notes.

We have very busy lives with children. When we play, our average day length is about two hours, and tbh , we really only have the budget for about one hour of games a night…. We had to stop playing half way through a run and decided we had to call it a day IRL, but weren’t ready to stop the run in game, we decided to leave the game running, and we were really disappointed to find that our computer had powered off ( cause unknown…)

It would be really great if there was some kind of mid day saving allowed. Even if it were limited so that you had to be playing for least 45 minutes to save (as an example…). Even rouglikes like FTL or belatro let you save whenever…



Thanks!

[mongokino]

I second this. And with no limit to minimum play etc. There is absolutely no reason to force players to end enjoyable runs due to time restraints. As long as there is only one save and it loads at the exact same state there would be no way of exploiting it.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Yes we need this.

[Tierell]

Please do! My cat stepped on the power button twice already(which is somewhat my fault for not monitoring I suppose but it could have been a power surge just as easily) Considering some runs last hours, that's a lot of progress lost.

[S1lv3r4ng3l #PLAISIR]

i think this is for prevent abus rollback, and i understand this choice, allowing this abuse will be less intersting for the game

[DerValiser]

Originally posted by S1lv3r4ng3l #PLAISIR:

i think this is for prevent abus rollback, and i understand this choice, allowing this abuse will be less intersting for the game

This is one of those classic #Whataboutism comments where once again no thought was put into it.

It's a single player game. If you want to cheat you're only cheating yourself and not affecting the wellbeing of others in your game. Therefore it is completely irrelevant whether YOU or ANYONE would use a mid day save to cheat.

But YOU deny working people or parents of a family, for example, their daily 30 to 60 minutes of puzzle fun if you forbid them a save function. That is selfish.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by S1lv3r4ng3l #PLAISIR:

i think this is for prevent abus rollback, and i understand this choice, allowing this abuse will be less intersting for the game

You could just make it so you have to "save and quit" instead of just save.

You could still manually back up the save file, but if you're willing to go that far you could be doing a whole lot more.

[Prussian Blue Bottles]

If the game simply auto-saved whenever you entered a room, drafted a room, solved a puzzle, opened a chest, ate some food, or made a purchase, I'd imagine that would combat the vast majority of save scumming.

There are people who might try to edit their auto-save, sure, but by that point you're dealing with people who are knowledgeable and dedicated enough to mod the game with all the tools and infinite keys, infinite gems, infinite coins, infinite steps, and infinite rerolls...which they could already do anyway.

I'm willing to give busy gamers the benefit of the doubt.

[Stub]

I agree completely. If people want to abuse the save feature, let them. They aren't hurting anyone but themselves. I can very rarely play a one day cycle in a sitting and often have to leave the game running for many hours. Some in game days take me a long time to get through.
Maybe have the game auto save after each interaction/selection so any progress made is locked in. I can very rarely play a one day cycle in a sitting and often have to leave the game running for many hours. Some in game days take me a long time to get through.