Saving and loading the game state

[Yuzu]

Since I bought the game, I've been having this problem: I can save my game but can't open it anymore, as the files seem to be corrupted. I think that's a real shame, because the game has a lot of potential. Hopefully, this will be fixed very soon.

[jaymee.grace]

I've recently had a similar problem where I am unable to load a saved game. It just stays on the inzoi loading screen.

[Fec@]

I had a similar problem (for me it crashed to desktop) when I created one Zoi for Dowon (South Korean city). After the first patch I created 3 member family in Bliss Bay (American city) and it works from then.
So maybe try again few times until an official fix is out.

[Yuzu]

Originally posted by Fec@:

I had a similar problem (for me it crashed to desktop) when I created one Zoi for Dowon (South Korean city). After the first patch I created 3 member family in Bliss Bay (American city) and it works from then.
So maybe try again few times until an official fix is out.

I texted with the support and they search for a way to fix it with me but nothing really helps. I think thats a Gameproblem and i have to wait for a update.

[Yuzu]

Originally posted by jaymee.grace:

I've recently had a similar problem where I am unable to load a saved game. It just stays on the inzoi loading screen.

thats a similar problem i got, but when i want to open a saved game then it says its file noz found and file seem to be corrupted. i think its a game problem and we have to wait for an fix update.

[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!

[Yuzu]

Originally posted by 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!

Thank you very much, I will try it as soon as i can!