How do you actually transfer game saves between computers?

[Sunshine]

So for a little bit of background, I recently bought a new pc but a lot of my save files are on the old one, and after watching some tutorials and reading the guide on steam I cannot figure out how to actually do the transfer.

and I'm missing some pretty important game saves that had a lot of work in them and I'm at a bit of a loss.

I am a bit confused on the process, I've done everything that needs to be done to transfer data
I only get the option to stream from the old pc onto the new one.

If anybody has figured this out or knows what I could be doing wrong, please let me know.

[Ogami]

There are multiple ways. For games that support "Steam Cloud" saves as long as you have the service active on your Steam it will automatically upload the latest save for the game to the Steam servers after you end a session and on the new PC if Steam cant find any local files it will automatically download them and put them at the correct location.
So for those games the save transfer is super easy.

Then there are the games that dont support Steam Cloud or only have local saves for whatever reason.
In those cases you have 2 options, either you look up the locations of the files and copy them over to the new PC manually via USB stick or similar OR , and that is what i recommend, you use a free program like gamesavemanager.
https://www.gamesave-manager.com/

That useful little tool scans your computer and finds all gaming save files on it, even hidden ones in invisible folders. Then you can take all those files and tell it to pack them into one big archive file.
Then you just copy over that archive file to the new PC and restore it with the same program on there. All your save files will be in the correct place and ready to go.

Never had a problem doing it like that.

[Sunshine]

Thank you, I'll give this a try!

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Originally posted by Ogami:

There are multiple ways. For games that support "Steam Cloud" saves as long as you have the service active on your Steam it will automatically upload the latest save for the game to the Steam servers after you end a session and on the new PC if Steam cant find any local files it will automatically download them and put them at the correct location.
So for those games the save transfer is super easy.

Then there are the games that dont support Steam Cloud or only have local saves for whatever reason.
In those cases you have 2 options, either you look up the locations of the files and copy them over to the new PC manually via USB stick or similar OR , and that is what i recommend, you use a free program like gamesavemanager.
https://www.gamesave-manager.com/

That useful little tool scans your computer and finds all gaming save files on it, even hidden ones in invisible folders. Then you can take all those files and tell it to pack them into one big archive file.
Then you just copy over that archive file to the new PC and restore it with the same program on there. All your save files will be in the correct place and ready to go.

Never had a problem doing it like that.

Only problem with that tool is a lot of games it don't support.

This tool here backs up all game save files no matter the game. it even restores them.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1980117518