Where Are Game's Save Files Located? (To Play From A Different PC)

[nunyabizznes]

I just got this game today to play on my laptop at work when time allowed and am loving it, but when I got home and installed it to my desktop pc, I wanted to transfer my save from my laptop to my desktop (since the game doesn't seem to work with Steam Cloud saves) but I can't seem to find any folders or files that seem to indicate "Save" data to transfer. Where exactly is the save data? (I'm on a Windows 10 pc btw)

[nunyabizznes]

So no one knows where the save game data is located?

[eddieballgame]

The usual places...this one is here; /users/name/AppData/LocalLow/Wave Light Games Inc_

[nunyabizznes]

Originally posted by eddieballgame:

The usual places...this one is here; /users/name/AppData/LocalLow/Wave Light Games Inc_

Actually, I copied that entire directory last night from my laptop to my desktop pc (Over-writing everything it asked) and launched the game and tried to load the game and my saved game was not listed to load, hense why I was asking here.

[eddieballgame]

Interesting...I could not find any other related folders/files . Also, some of those files listed in the folder I mentioned do get updated after ending a game.
As per copying from one computer to another, I recommend 'replacing' not overwriting. Delete the ones you want to replace; the main folder being the Unity one & the PlayerPrefs file.
Good Luck. :)

[nunyabizznes]

Originally posted by eddieballgame:

Interesting...I could not find any other related folders/files . Also, some of those files listed in the folder I mentioned do get updated after ending a game.
As per copying from one computer to another, I recommend 'replacing' not overwriting. Delete the ones you want to replace; the main folder being the Unity one & the PlayerPrefs file.
Good Luck. :)

Hmm, it is possible I didn't do the copying with everything "completely" exited (game and/or steam may have still been in memory or processes still loaded)

When I get home later this evening I'll give it a go again and make sure to delete everything there first, then copy over what I backed up, "then" launch steam and the game to see what happens.

Thanks

[eddieballgame]

I experimented with deleting the entire folder that I thought was where the saves were. This had no effect as my saves still showed up in-game. I could find nothing in the main game dir, so the saves must be some place else.
It is interesting that there is no delete save options, although you can "zero out" the saves; load them & start fighting with no units. :) Very interesting to say the least.

[nunyabizznes]

Yeah, I just got home and tried it with the same results.

It acts almost like the save data is being saved remotely rather than locally, similar to Steam cloud save only to some unknown remote location instead.

I've looked in both the game installation directory (In Steam), the Steam location under Appdata\Local and the Appdata\Wave Light Games Inc_ location, but the only files I've found that have similar/matching time-stamps to what should be modified times with when I exited the game, seem to just be logs or a handful of other unrelated files.

This is getting a bit rediculous.... hopefully someone with more knowledge of the game's workings will chime in and point out the solution soon.

Thanks

[eddieballgame]

I play this not through Steam, the game allows it which I like. So remote saving doesn't appear to be in play. I did check where the game registers itself & am thinking that the saves could be there, though that would be very odd.
If that is the case one could export the register files then install them on another machine. Of course, I am just 'spitballing' here. :)

[nunyabizznes]

Ok....I tried copying the entire Damon's Rise directory and files from the Steam "common" install location on my laptop to my desktop, with no change (save game not copied over)

I copied the entire Wave Light Games Inc_ directory and files from the Appdata\Locallow location (no change)

I copied the entire Steam directory and files from Appdata\Local location (no change)

All thats left is either:
(1) save data is somehow stored in an alternate location within the Steam client install directory structure outside the game install location.

(2) The save data is saved in a completely unrelated (or seemingly so from visual inspections) location on the computer, with even detailed view of directory structures arranged by modified dates not pointing to anything

I'm just going to give up (for tonight anyways....tired of messing with this crap lol) for now, then I may look into it further later.

The best/easiest option would be for some helpful "Dev-type " person (hint-hint) to actualy help with this...that, or maybe someone else can get lucky and figure it out and explain it.

[WaveLightGames]

I'm sorry for the late reply. Had a busy weekend with the kids.

I'm actually just using the standard Unity approach of using playerpref files. I don't know exactly how it saves things. A quick of Unity's documentation says the following:

"On Windows, PlayerPrefs are stored in the registry under HKCU\Software\[company name]\[product name] key, where company and product names are the names set up in Project Settings."

Since I'm just saving all game data in the PlayerPrefs information, I believe it should be here. I'm looking at ways to do a better, cloud-based backup system so players can play across devices. Will probably add it in only future games though since messing with save game data with a patch is probably disastrous for existing player data.

[nunyabizznes]

THANK YOU! Whew I would have never guessed the save game data was in the registry itself lol
I tested the below and it worked perfectly.

For anyone wanting to play a saved game from one device on a different one:

1) Go to the following location in your registry (for Windows 10 anyway, different OS's may vary a bit): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wave Light Games Inc.\Demon's Rise: War for the Deep

2) Right-click the "Demon's Rise: War for the Deep" key (What essentially looks like a folder all the data is under) and choose "export" (choose your flash drive/etc for location and name it)

3) Go to destination PC and go to the same registry location as on the previous PC and, choose export first to make a backup somewhere on that PC for safety's sake in case you want to revert later or something screws up.

4) Delete the contents of the "Demon's Rise: War for the Deep" key (this part may not be necessary but I choose to do it just in case of potential conflicting data being left behind with the coming merge) then outside of your regedit session, browse to your *.reg file you backed up on the previous pc, right-click it (I think double-clicking has the same effect?) and choose 'Merge"

After merging you should be able to look back in the same "Demon's Rise: War for the Deep" key location and see all the data you previously deleted (assuming you did that step) has been re-populated, this time with the save data from your other pc, allowing you to play that save on your current computer.

[eddieballgame]

I thought so...:) Thank you 'dev'.