Game Crash and Lost my Save

[Albert Spaghetti]

I was playing on one of my saves a couple of days ago, and when I pressed the save button, my game crashed. I didnt think much of it, especially when the launcher said I could reload my last save, and tried loading in again. Instead, when I tried to load in, the game kicked me to the main menu, and the save file had completely disapeared. I also checked my save file location and it's just not there. It was one of my favourite running saves that I had, so I'm really trying to see if I can recover it somehow.

[Fortuna]

Game crashes for many, for now, i'll wait for a patch.
Very unstable!

[Albert Spaghetti]

Originally posted by The 16th Toad:

Do you have autosave turned on? If it was corrupted and deleted I don't know of a way to recover it.

I dont think I had autosave on. The weird thing is that the launcher still says "Continue (city name)" When I hover over it, even if it kicks me back to the main menu, so I'm not sure of the file got deleted, got moved, or is corrupted somewhere that I cant see it.

[sternenstaub70]

Originally posted by Kirbz:

I dont think I had autosave on. The weird thing is that the launcher still says "Continue (city name)" When I hover over it, even if it kicks me back to the main menu, so I'm not sure of the file got deleted, got moved, or is corrupted somewhere that I cant see it.

It may be the "continue_game.json" file contains wrong informations.
This file contains the information you see for the "continue game" button.

Check your save file folder for two files which have the same last change timestamp as the continue_game.json has and if they exist, check if none of them is of size 0.

But I guess, since you cannot even manually load the game, the crash happened during saving or right before it started saving the game data. So all your data might be loss.

You need definitely turn autosave on with short saving intervals, it does not even need to be a crash which could ruin the time you invested into building the city.
A thunderstorm near an electrical powerplant which you don't even see could do this as well...

[Albert Spaghetti]

Originally posted by sternenstaub70:

Originally posted by Kirbz:

I dont think I had autosave on. The weird thing is that the launcher still says "Continue (city name)" When I hover over it, even if it kicks me back to the main menu, so I'm not sure of the file got deleted, got moved, or is corrupted somewhere that I cant see it.

It may be the "continue_game.json" file contains wrong informations.
This file contains the information you see for the "continue game" button.

Check your save file folder for two files which have the same last change timestamp as the continue_game.json has and if they exist, check if none of them is of size 0.

But I guess, since you cannot even manually load the game, the crash happened during saving or right before it started saving the game data. So all your data might be loss.

You need definitely turn autosave on with short saving intervals, it does not even need to be a crash which could ruin the time you invested into building the city.
A thunderstorm near an electrical powerplant which you don't even see could do this as well...

Yeah I checked my savegames file and it's just not there. I guess I just got unlucky and the game crashed right as it was overwriting the data. Is there any way I could go back to a preview steam cloud and recover the file?