Transferring save file from Amazon Games to Steam

[sleevy]

I was finally convinced to pick up this game when I saw it was free through Amazon Games / Prime / whatever it's called. I loved it and decided to support the devs by buying it but the issue I had was that I had already made a bunch of progress and didn't want to lose it when switching over!

What I did was I went to (and your path may be different)

C:\Users\<your user>\AppData\LocalLow\Videocult\Rain World

This should contain your Amazon Games save data. What you want to do is open the file "sav" and do a search for

>save<

For me, this part looks like:

<Key xmlns:d3p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" i:type="d3p1:string">save</Key><Value xmlns:d3p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" i:type="d3p1:string">{a lot of data}</Value>

You want to copy everything after the > at the end of

<Value xmlns:d3p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" i:type="d3p1:string">

and before the next

</Value>

(not including either of the <>s)
if your text editor can search by regex, the match would be something like

<Key.+?>save</Key><Value.+?>(.+?)</Value>

Paste all of that text into a new file and replace every instance of &gt; with > and &lt; with <
Save that file as sav.txt

Then, on Steam, right click the game in the list, mouse over "Manage" then select "Browse local files"
This will open up the steam version and you should see a UserData folder, which you should now open
Drag your sav.txt into this folder
Start up the game and you should see your precious slugcat (and region data) as you left them!

I've also been trying to figure out if it's possible to port the achievements or arena/sandbox unlocks but haven't had much luck so if anybody can figure that out it'd be great. If not, then at least the game is fun enough that I'll happily re-earn them!

[Jevmen]

isnt amazon the 1.8 version and steam's the 1.5?

[∩∩4r|<]

Appreciate the effort, but maybe best put in a guide? Anyway, it seems the offer has ended[www.amazon.com] today — wondering how many grabbed it, together with 8Doors ...

[sleevy]

Originally posted by Jevmen:

isnt amazon the 1.8 version and steam's the 1.5?

Not sure about the specifics or even how to check but I did notice a difference while playing Monk that could either be a version difference or a difficulty difference: a tunnel on my map in a later area said it was open but was very much not. So it's entirely possible this is a terrible idea and it might be better for people to start fresh. Gonna run back there on a new Survivor game later to see if the tunnel is valid in the Steam version

[ombromant]

Thanks for the help been wanting to swap to steam for quite some time.