Game Crashed and Lost my Save

[Zarthol]

I just played the game for 6 hours. Had my first crash and on boot it asked me to create a new profile. I'd even closed and opened this game previously so I don't know how it couldn't have saved.

Is there really no way to get my old save back?

If so I don't know if I want to keep playing the game at risk of losing all my progress in figuring out the puzzles.

[MobiusDigital]

Try out this solution for recovering your save:

Outer Wilds keeps automated backups of your save files in “C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Mobius Digital\Outer Wilds\Backup”. If for some reason your save file gets lost or corrupted, the latest good save data from each profile may be recoverable from here. The game will prompt to restore these files if they are missing or unreadable at startup.
If you would like to do this manually, simply copy the items within “Outer Wilds\Backup\<profilename>\” to “Outer Wilds\SteamSaves\<profilename>” and re-launch the game. Of note is that you may have to disable Steam Cloud sync to have this save copying go through. This can be done by right-clicking on Outer Wilds in your Steam library, selecting Properties, and unchecking “Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for Outer Wilds” in the Updates menu. After doing this, copy the backup files to your save profile folder, re-launch Outer Wilds, and once you are done playing, (optionally) re-enable the Steam Cloud sync option.

[Zarthol]

Hey Dev,

Unfortunately in an attempt to fix the save myself I named my new profile the same as the old hoping it would restore it before seeing these instructions. So the game over-wrote the backup save that you mentioned.

I will keep this in mind for future crashes. I do really enjoy this game and the idea behind it. Hopefully you are getting crash uploads sent to you to help stability of the game. If not I believe there is a crash folder I can upload to you if that helps you for future patches.

[Printzea]

I know it's been 2 years but I came in here because of the same reason and the exact same things happened to me.

It seems that just creating the profile overwrites the old backup inmediately :(

[moodslayer]

Same here. ♥♥♥♥ it, 20h wasted

[jack_the_maniac]

Originally posted by Printzea:

I know it's been 2 years but I came in here because of the same reason and the exact same things happened to me.

It seems that just creating the profile overwrites the old backup inmediately :(

If you do this you can use windows recovery to restore each data file to a previous version.
Right click the data file, properties > previous versions > restore.

[Nullioust22]

My computer crashed and it made my old profile file unreadable, I was able to recover my save by creating a new profile and pasting the old profiles backup data in to the new profile.