Where is the save data located in Linux Mint?

[Cooltreeman]

I've been looking for awhile. I know a lot of games seem to have their save data under "/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/"randomnumbers"/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/"dev"/"gamename"/"differentrandomnumbers"/steam_autocloud.vdf"
including Dark Souls remastered, Elden Ring, and Dark Souls 3 along with some others but I cannot seem to find the save data for ds2. I'm trying to do a last-time-playing achievement run and wish to use backups to avoid headaches.

If anyone can find this it would be much appreciated. Additionally, if you can find this info for you do you know if the .vdf file would work the same as the .sl2 file I saw used by Fromsoft backups from when I did achievement runs in DS1 and DS3? I would hate to mess something up :)

[AerSilver]

Try
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/335300/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/DarkSoulsII/

Let me know if that works for you.

[Cooltreeman]

Originally posted by AerSilver ♞:

Try
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/335300/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/DarkSoulsII/

Let me know if that works for you.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem viable for me. There is no Steam folder under ~/.local/share/

[JellyPuff]

The autocloud.vdf is not a savefile and only contains some metadata used by Steam for games having Steam Cloud-saving enabled. DS2 and DS3 do not support Steam Cloud saving. DSR and Elden Ring do support it. If you recently switched computers or re-installed/switched your OS, then you'd have to manually backup and move savefiles for DS2.
The actual savefile is called DS2SOFS0000.sl2.

Game saves for Windows-native games using Wine or Proton on Linux are always stored inside "prefixes", which are kinda like micro Windows-installs having the necessary folder structure, so the games won't get confused. The prefix folders for Proton when playing through Steam should by default always be at the install path of Steam itself: <Steam-Install-Path>/steamapps/compdata/<AppID>/pfx and then it's like what it would be on Windows from there[www.pcgamingwiki.com].
The AppID for this game is as mentioned above: 335300.

If it's definitely not there, are you running the game through Wine using Lutris? If yes, check /home/ for a wine-folder and look there.

[Cooltreeman]

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

The autocloud.vdf is not a savefile and only contains some metadata used by Steam for games having Steam Cloud-saving enabled. DS2 and DS3 do not support Steam Cloud saving. DSR and Elden Ring do support it. If you recently switched computers or re-installed/switched your OS, then you'd have to manually backup and move savefiles for DS2.
The actual savefile is called DS2SOFS0000.sl2.

Game saves for Windows-native games using Wine or Proton on Linux are always stored inside "prefixes", which are kinda like micro Windows-installs having the necessary folder structure, so the games won't get confused. The prefix folders for Proton when playing through Steam should by default always be at the install path of Steam itself: <Steam-Install-Path>/steamapps/compdata/<AppID>/pfx and then it's like what it would be on Windows from there[www.pcgamingwiki.com].
The AppID for this game is as mentioned above: 335300.

If it's definitely not there, are you running the game through Wine using Lutris? If yes, check /home/ for a wine-folder and look there.

Thanks a ton! Key for me was "default always be at the install path of Steam itself". I thought I had steam itself installed on a different, specific drive. Checking through other drives I was able to find the .sl2 file following the filepath mentioned earlier. Thanks again.