Saved Inzoi gone

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I made this character yesterday and saved it but when I tried to get back in, I only have the option of creating a new game. Does anybody else experience or have a solution to this?

[[HUN]ColemanV]

I just had the same issue.
Created the character, got interrupted, and when I loaded up the game again my character was gone.

[Serrel]

Im sure they posted something about that recently but I think they fixed it. Have you patched your game? try again and just use a dummy ZOI before you commit.

[Nesto0o]

What’s a dummy zoi

[Shabranigdu]

Originally posted by Nesto0o:

What’s a dummy zoi

Just making one quickly to test if the issue persists, before you spend too long creating one you like

[[HUN]ColemanV]

Originally posted by Shabranigdu:

Originally posted by Nesto0o:

What’s a dummy zoi

Just making one quickly to test if the issue persists, before you spend too long creating one you like

That reminds me of my Starfield gameplay, where I had no issue with the saves until 125 hours in the file corrupted and every save I had if I loaded it up, it got also corrupted.
Still isn't fixed to this day.
I hope we won't have this with inzoi, but I don't think we would run into that issue, because it is not Bethesda making the game :D

[KrazieFox]

Originally posted by nanixiong:

I made this character yesterday and saved it but when I tried to get back in, I only have the option of creating a new game. Does anybody else experience or have a solution to this?

Did you manually save, or just rely on the Auto-save?

I always triple save my game (character_name 01, Character_name 02, Character_name 03) and piggy back them ... have done since the dawn of time.

My Auto-Save stopped after the first day - NEVER rely on an Auto-Save.

Hope you get it fixed soon, losing a save game is horrible :(

ALWAYS manually save, and never rely solely on one save.

[Shabranigdu]

Originally posted by HUNColemanV:

Originally posted by Shabranigdu:

Just making one quickly to test if the issue persists, before you spend too long creating one you like

That reminds me of my Starfield gameplay, where I had no issue with the saves until 125 hours in the file corrupted and every save I had if I loaded it up, it got also corrupted.
Still isn't fixed to this day.
I hope we won't have this with inzoi, but I don't think we would run into that issue, because it is not Bethesda making the game :D

Aaahhh my dear Bethesda, I loved your games so much *cries on grave and goes back to mods*

[Dipe]

Hey! I wanted to share how I finally got my missing save to show up in INZOI — even though everything seemed lost.
I had an error "Save Data Corrupted.The save data corrupted. Corrupted save data cannot be played or recovered. (ErrorCode: FileNotFound)"

First, I realized that my Windows user account had the name JOSIE & MALIK (with a space and &), which may have caused issues with how INZOI accessed save paths. The game couldn't load any saves — even newly created ones immediately gave a “FileNotFound” error.

So I:

Created a new Windows admin account with a simple name (no spaces or special characters).

Logged into Steam and INZOI under this new user.

Created a new save — and it worked!

Then I tried to restore my old save:

I copied my old save folder into the new user’s SaveGames directory.

But INZOI still didn’t show it in the Load menu.

That’s when I noticed something:
Inside each save folder, there’s a Portraits subfolder with .png files — one for each character.

In my old save’s Portraits folder, I saw two PNG files — my two custom characters that I had created before everything broke.

So I took just those two PNG portraits (nothing else!) and pasted them into the Portraits folders of all my new working saves.

After that — I opened INZOI, went to “Load Game”... and BOOM — my old save with both characters finally appeared and loaded normally.

So maybe INZOI uses those PNGs to validate saves — or maybe they help link character data back in. Either way, this totally saved me.

If anyone else is stuck like I was — give it a try!