Game crashes when loading

[Miral]

So, I played a little bit of the game until it wanted me to go to the lab for the first time, then explored the lab and went through the giant red portal to some kind of survival arena. After eventually dying there I picked the "return to lab" potion and then the game crashed.

And now whenever I try to load that game (throw the bottle into the cauldron) the game immediately crashes again.

Is there any way out of this cycle or is this game going to be an immediate refund?

[jimmyraybluejr]

My game also crashes when I try to load my save file. I went throught the giant red portal as well, played a bit and returned to the lab then exited. Now when I try to load my save game, the game crashes.

[Irbis]

Same problem here.

[gardiner]

Same problem. Meanwhile I have two save files which are corrupt and cannot continue, that is a no go.

[DonPedro]

I have never had problems with savefiles

[bohitigaming]

my crashes when starting the game, I'm refunding this waste of time.

[Szoreny Klepko]

Same here, crashed in the arena then save file crashes when a load is attempted.

[Happy!]

Yep same here. cool game and only crash till now but im not interested in playing the first 2 hours again. please fix

[phimseto]

Just FYI - devs have been working on identifying, replicating, and dealing with these problems. Not sure of a patch ETA, but one is being worked on.

[Matthijs D.]

And another one. Cannot continue.

I will disable Cloud Save since that sometimes seems to crash games as well. Will report back if that made a difference.

UPDATE: Well, that's weird. The game doesn't support cloud saves, but I swear I saw Steam uploading to the cloud. Well, I must have been mistaken then.

[gardiner]

Until they patch the problem (and I hope so, that is a no go), one solution could be the following:

From time to time, manually create a copy of the savegame files.
You can usually find the files here:

C:\Users\>your username in windows<\AppData\Local\MagesTale\Saved\SaveGames

And don't go ingame from the lab to this arena-room through the portal there, I think this save-bug only occurs, if you do that...

[Miral]

So, good news: looks like the new patch does fix this. Able to reload my crashed save without any problem and continue playing. (Now I just need to figure out an especially obscure puzzle.)

[fuerdenherzog]

no, yet not able to load savegame

[Cavador]

Same problem here after all these years. I will be uninstalling this game.