My progress will be lost if I uninstall and install the game again?

[Atenea7188]

Hi!
My moth in the library is missing and I can see that some people has the same problem. One person said the problem was solved unistall and install the game again. But I'm afraid of having to start the game over if my progress is lost. I have never uninstall any steam game.. can anyone help me please?
Thanks!

[veiny ahh dih]

No, you won't lose anything because your files should be uploaded on the cloud.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Atenea7188:

Hi!
But I'm afraid of having to start the game over if my progress is lost. I have never uninstall any steam game.. can anyone help me please?

Modern games store the game's installed folder in one area (if they are Steam games, usually inside the Steam folder), and things like savegames or configuration files in a completely different area (usually somewhere inside the AppData or Documents folders). Uninstalling games, even if the folder with the game's installed files gets completely removed, will not affect the data in AppData or Documents.

There are a few old games that dedicated uninstallers which ask you if you want to keep or remove your savegames. I haven't seen this in a long time, though, and even if you run into a game like this, you can just tell the uninstaller to keep the savegames.

And then there are even older games (like, DOS games from more than 25 years ago) that may store their savegames together with the game's installed files. These might indeed be removed depending on the method of uninstallation. But you'd recognize when you'd play a game that is at least 25 years old, right? ;)