Steam Deck and PC saves not syncing

[Oahkery]

I was recently traveling, so I fired up a game on my Steam Deck to play (Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, if it matters). However, I had no internet access at the time, and I had forgotten that I hadn't played that game on my Steam Deck yet, so when I loaded it up, I obviously didn't have my cloud saves. That was fine; I just played a different game.

However, when I later got internet access, I opened the game on my Steam Deck again, expecting it to sync to my saved game in the cloud, but it still had it the same as the first time I opened it, with no games saved and the only option to start a new game. I've deleted and reinstalled it on my Steam Deck, and it still won't pull my saves. I'm back home, and on my PC, I still have my old saves, and it says the Steam Cloud is synced, but still, when I try to start the game on my Deck it won't download my saves.

So is there any way to force the cloud saves to override my Deck saves? I'm not even getting a notice or an option; the game just starts, and my saves aren't there. This is really frustrating, because I'm well into the game on PC and am not going to start over, so it's basically just a game I can't play on my Steam Deck now.

[Falsus Te Deum]

Could be better to post in Steamdeck's own forum:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/

[Oahkery]

Originally posted by Falsus Te Deum:

Could be better to post in Steamdeck's own forum:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/

Ah, I looked for a Steam Deck forum, but I didn't realize it would be a product forum rather than one of their official ones. Thanks, I'll drop it there too.

[Kuxiie]

did you ever get a solution for this? I just got my deck and am having the same issue lol. only small difference is that for some reason my deck is using an old cloud save of my game rather than the current one thats on my pc.

[Oahkery]

Originally posted by Kuxiie:

did you ever get a solution for this? I just got my deck and am having the same issue lol. only small difference is that for some reason my deck is using an old cloud save of my game rather than the current one thats on my pc.

Back when I first posted about this, I found out that apparently the Fell Seal devs hadn't implemented cross/cloud saves or whatever and had no plans to, so there would be no way to play the same game on the Deck and PC unless you manually moved the saves every time (something I obviously wasn't going to do). That's weird if you're getting an old save, because it sounds like that shouldn't even be happening (unless you're trying to play a different game). I haven't looked into Fell Seal to see if they changed their minds about cloud saves; I'm just not going to play it on my Deck.

[Satoru]

Steam Cloud saves are of 2 different types

1) Non-native - these are where the saves are stored in a specific location such as "My Documents\game" and these are uploaded to the cloud.

With non-native steam cloud saves

* They are not cross platform since linux\macs have no idea where "My Documents" is any more than Windows understands where "~/Library/Game/" is. Each OS the dev must specify where the save files are located.
* They are not per-steam user

2) Native Steam Cloud - these are where your save files are stored on a per-steam user basis and are stored in a special directory in the steam installer file structure

With native steam cloud saves

* They are cross platform since the saves are downloaded to the same location on each platform
* They are per steam user which is useful if multiple people use the same computer

Its unfortuantely not possible to know how a game uses steam cloud as that's more or less up to the developer

[MayoLuck]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Steam Cloud saves are of 2 different types

1) Non-native - these are where the saves are stored in a specific location such as "My Documents\game" and these are uploaded to the cloud.

With non-native steam cloud saves

* They are not cross platform since linux\macs have no idea where "My Documents" is any more than Windows understands where "~/Library/Game/" is. Each OS the dev must specify where the save files are located.
* They are not per-steam user

2) Native Steam Cloud - these are where your save files are stored on a per-steam user basis and are stored in a special directory in the steam installer file structure

With native steam cloud saves

* They are cross platform since the saves are downloaded to the same location on each platform
* They are per steam user which is useful if multiple people use the same computer

Its unfortuantely not possible to know how a game uses steam cloud as that's more or less up to the developer

This needs to be on the steam homepage for ppl to see understand the difference 👍🏻