If I delete my steam game saves will they still be saved in the cloud?

[llanita]

My c drive is almost full, and I have a ton of steam games saved on my pc, so Id like to clean up the drive a bit and getting rid of all those saves will help tremendously.
Thanks

[Xautos]

a few games i know save games to the cloud but others do not. take for example if you play The Sims 4, you must always have a usb stick with you so you can save you saves, mods and tray folders to avoid losing all your hard work, do so regularly by saving and copying the files to the usb stick. trust me on that, it will save you from so much trouble when something goes terribly wrong on your computer.

a common mistake with steam users for a game like The Sims 4 is that they believe the steam cloud would save it, but it won't and they lose hundreds if not thousands of hours of effort and no way to get it back.

so check with those games specifically that do and do not save to the cloud and those that don't can have their saves and what not copied to a usb stick as well.

[llanita]

Ok thanks very much. So if the saves are in the cloud Its safe for me to delete them from my pc?

[Xautos]

only if you know there are there.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

You check game has cloud save, if it doesn't then there no cloud save.

If you had disable cloud save for game, your save won't be uploaded/downloaded to/from the cloud.

If cloud save enable, your save should be uploaded. If there a fail to upload, you just click on cloud button to retry again for said game page you view in library. How cloud save works it uploads save when you close the game. And how download save work it download when you download, or launch your game.

If game doesn't have cloud save, you have to use game save manager app, and setup a cloud storage of your own, you can use Google drive, dropbox, or etc once you config your app, it should upload your saves when you tell the app to do it.

Now game saves are not really big, unless you make too many for some reason, were talking like almost thousands of save files, otherwise likely only hundreds which only going be like several hundreds of MBs, which not gonna make much of a difference to you if you delete them if trying to get space back, which you get most space back by reviewing what you been downloading, and installing.

If you're using tiny storage drives, you're better off getting a bigger storage drive for like $30+ that like 1TB, or could go bigger if you really need that much space which costs more.

[Callahan420]

You can see your cloud saves here
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[Kage Goomba]

Usually - (keyword) - the steam cloud saves are always ever present - if anything damn near impossible to delete - course its been a while since I last tried as I wanted to reset a game for progress enjoyment purposes.

Not all games are equal in this regard - so id spot check to be sure.

[nullable]

Originally posted by llanita:

My c drive is almost full, and I have a ton of steam games saved on my pc, so Id like to clean up the drive a bit and getting rid of all those saves will help tremendously.
Thanks

If it's me, and since not all games use cloud saves I'd recommend https://www.gamesave-manager.com make your own archive(s) and put them on dropbox or whatever equivalent cloud storage you have.

My argument is going to be, it's better to have a backup you don't need than to need a backup and not have it.