no saves on new PC?

[🍂🎃Jason Funderberker🎃]

So i got a new PC and reinstalled the game like i did with other steam games.But i dont have any saves and all my slots are empty.Doesnt this game save in the cloud?Do i have to move my saved games from my old pc?

[Dutchcrazygamer]

Originally posted by Nevermore:

So i got a new PC and reinstalled the game like i did with other steam games.But i dont have any saves and all my slots are empty.Doesnt this game save in the cloud?Do i have to move my saved games from my old pc?

Yes you have to move your old saves to your new pc.

[Andi]

Sometimes you have to start a new game and make a dummy save in order to trigger steam cloud to sync.
I had to do the same when I got a new hard drive.

Just start a new game and save immediately. Close game, restart steam. Should work.

[🍂🎃Jason Funderberker🎃]

Originally posted by Andi:

Sometimes you have to start a new game and make a dummy save in order to trigger steam cloud to sync.
I had to do the same when I got a new hard drive.

Just start a new game and save immediately. Close game, restart steam. Should work.

Originally posted by Dutchcrazygamer:

Originally posted by Nevermore:

So i got a new PC and reinstalled the game like i did with other steam games.But i dont have any saves and all my slots are empty.Doesnt this game save in the cloud?Do i have to move my saved games from my old pc?

Yes you have to move your old saves to your new pc.

Thanks so much guys,both of you.As i understand the solution was a combination of both of your answers,i move the files from my old pc and also started a new game,saved and restarted steam.The old perk slot was replaced by the new one but i dont care about that slot,my other slots that have my most progress are right there.Thanks again guys!

[VampHell]

there is other way to do that and haver like infinite save slots

[Apocalypso]

For me it was a bit more complicated because it did not work with the tricks above. If you have the same problem you have to:
1.) Download your save files from steam cache manually (https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage) or get them from your Steam Installfolder/userdata/[UserId]/242760/remote.
2.) Do a new save so it makes all the necessary subfolders in AppData/LocalLow/SKS/TheForest. (The first subfolder has a name out of just numbers. I don't think thats the same for everyone). Of course it's the best to not save the new one on the slot you want to restore (have a look at the date of the files and pick the newest one)
3.) You will see it makes subfolders like "SinglePlayer" and "SlotX" that are the same that is also included in your 4 save file names. The files are named like "SinglePlayer_SlotX_..." you have to cut the filenames until that second underscore and put them in the subfolders with those names instead. (Carefull the __RESUME__ file sould really have only 2 underscores to begin with, but of course it has 3 between SlotX and Resume).
After a reload it was happy gaming for me. Hope it helps.

[Robocop]

Originally posted by Apocalypso:

For me it was a bit more complicated because it did not work with the tricks above. If you have the same problem you have to:
1.) Download your save files from steam cache manually (https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage) or get them from your Steam Installfolder/userdata/[UserId]/242760/remote.
2.) Do a new save so it makes all the necessary subfolders in AppData/LocalLow/SKS/TheForest. (The first subfolder has a name out of just numbers. I don't think thats the same for everyone). Of course it's the best to not save the new one on the slot you want to restore (have a look at the date of the files and pick the newest one)
3.) You will see it makes subfolders like "SinglePlayer" and "SlotX" that are the same that is also included in your 4 save file names. The files are named like "SinglePlayer_SlotX_..." you have to cut the filenames until that second underscore and put them in the subfolders with those names instead. (Carefull the __RESUME__ file sould really have only 2 underscores to begin with, but of course it has 3 between SlotX and Resume).
After a reload it was happy gaming for me. Hope it helps.

This! Thank you, worked for me after gaming on the Steam Deck and going back to my pc. Cloud save didn't link the two, was like it was only using local saves on each device, not how cloud saves are supposed to be. No issues with other games so far, just The Forest.

[kevinshow]

I just did this , this weekend on a new laptop. Even though the cloud sync said "ready to go", I actually didn't see my save games upon entering the game. However, I decided to go ahead and just bum around on a new save, using a slot that I knew I did not need (eg, I know that Slot 1 and Slot 5 are my most important saves, slot 2-4 are just my rotating save files)

I did that for an hour or two before I tried to save a game and then saw that the previous save files with their thumbnails were now showing up in their appropriate slots.