How Limited are Saves?

[Calvinball8]

As someone who generally will only play a game for around 30 minutes or so at a time, are saves fairly limited? I've always avoided games with limited saves because I knew they wouldn't mesh well with my way of playing, but I didn't know that about this game going in.

Will it actually be a problem for me, or are there enough that it won't really matter if I only play for short sessions?

[zephyrean]

You'll probably be fine, you basically have a save for each ~30 minutes of the game. Keep in mind that you can only save at checkpoints.

I love limited saves in these games, they really add to the atmosphere... as long as do my best to ignore the not-scary truth. The truth is the game, huge and nonlinear it may be, has a limited amount of content per playthrough. You either clear a challenge and save or get killed and reload. Thus, with regards to saves, it's effectively a game with levels; you can control how long the levels are and where the cutscenes go, with foreknowledge (but the foreknowledge of that sort doesn't mesh well with the horror).

So the worst-case meta-gameplay loop looks like this:
- save
- try a dangerous quest, die
- reload
- try again, succeed
- save
- watch a cutscene
- do a walking sequence
- get another dangerous quest
?what to do? if you save here, you'll have wasted a save, but if you don't, you're risking having to sit through the cutscene and the walking again if you die. The "correct" thing to do would be to save not right after completing the quest but after the safe sequences, but to do that you'd need to know in advance which sequences are safe and which end with a surprise mass murder or whatever.

Consumables which allow saves and those which unlock checkpoints (some checkpoints are already unlocked) are found throughout the game, so you're not likely to completely run out, but both have alternate uses and not having them on hand can make some sections harder. The operative word here is "found": finding requires searching, and searching is dangerous. Save slots aren't limited however, so you can play a section cautiously with multiple saves, then replay it and save only once in the end, when you know which office appliances are carnivorous and which door triggers the boss fight.

Finally, make notes! Item locations, item interactions, maps, secrets, rumors, points of interest, plot triggers, names (names!). All of it will come in handy when the area is plunged into darkness or gets infested with HR ladies or both.

[Punchibi]

There aren't enough and I have seen at least three oher people aside from me complaining.

[DarkFalzX]

My biggest issue is when the game springs a dangerous situation on you where you don't expect one. Like, say, I completed a long quest, and now I'm just doing a clean-up around the building, trying to talk to all NPCs and get everything squared away before saving and starting the next part, but the game suddenly springs a trap on me, and starts another dangerous section out of the blue. Now if I die, I'll lose an hour of progress!
There's only been a handful of those so far, but something tells me the game'll throw more stuff like this the closer I get to finishing it.

[CosmicRaine]

Not sure if you completed the game or not by this point, but the forest goblin will sell you witch paper if you go give him cheese if that helps? I save frequently and ended my game with 8+ papers still. Just dont do it after doing one tiny thing. Do it after you have made a decent amount of progress. Dont just do it if you go to floor 5, save, talk to sintra, new quest is given, save. That is going to deplete your papers

[Gambit]

Honestly? My play style is that I like to go guns blazing into danger and not tip toe around, because that's fun. This game save restriction blocks that play preference. It's always nice to explore new ways to play, but would like an option for infinite saves and can disable an achievement if you want.