How to link Deep Rock Galactic Saves Between Game Pass for PC and Steam

Link your Steam and PC Game Pass saves so you can play with friends on both platforms without needing to manually keep your saves up to date.

Reminder:

When doing anything with config files or important data never delete anything until you've tested that it works, and even then backups never hurt.

Step One: Locate Save Files

Xbox Save:

1. Press Win + r to open the run menu
   
2. Enter %localappdata% and press Ok
   
3. Enter the folder called Packages
   
4. Enter the folder starting with CoffeeStainStudios.DeepRockGalactic_ followed by a string of characters
   
5. Enter the folder called SystemAppData followed by entering wgs
   
6. Enter the folder whose name is a string of characters and again for the next one
   
7. Select the file whose name is a string of characters and press ctrl + shift + c to copy the path
   
8. Open notepad and paste the path and denote it as the Game Pass save

Steam Save:

1. Open the Steam library page for Deep Rock
   
2. Click the gear icon then select Browse local files under the manage dropdown
   
3. Follow the path FSD\Saved\SaveGames
   
4. Select the file ending in _Player.sav and press ctrl + shift + c to copy the path
   
5. Paste the path into the notepad file and denote it as the Steam save

Step Two: Remove Steam Save

1. Move the file ending in _Player.sav to a safe directory outside of the Deep Rock game files

Step Three: Create Link

1. Open a Command Prompt as an administrator
   
2. Enter mklink <Steam path> <Game Pass path> replacing both paths with the ones identified earlier
   
   • Including the quotes
     
   • Right click in the Command Prompt to paste

Step Four: Rock and Stone

Trouble Shooting

Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

• Ensure the file ending in _Player.sav_ has been removed from the Deep Rock directory

You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.

• Ensure that Command Prompt has been run as an administrator

Cannot find save files

• Ensure that both installs have been run once

[a blaspheming heretic]

Symbolic links are NTFS sorcery - be careful with using these LOL. But this is brilliant. Take my award.

[Lord Highspire]

I meant DRG. Darn typo.

[Lord Highspire]

Just bought myself SRG. So here is the noob's question: If I only play on steam, should I still sync with game pass, or is that only relevant if I am a multiplatform user?

[graft]

This is genius. It took less than 5 minutes and worked perfectly. This is just after the season 5 release. Thanks beanBag!

[SONGUTTI]

ShinanCrimson you saved me. Thanks. Use Molly"s Game-Sve M.U.L.E. With one click the game was where I leave it.

[Skjoldr]

Does this run into issues with the season updates as Steam gets them ahead of the Windows store?

[verysoapy2]

is it possible to link an xbox save to pc? also how would you access the xbox save? and is it possible to keep save data if you were using a microsoft account on xbox to steam?

[ShinganCrimson]

this works a lot better use Molly's Game-Save M.U.L.E. and here is the link for it github.com/ntaiprogrammer/MollysGameSaveMule

[Steen]

OP could you please add a photo example of what you did in your Command Prompt step? I can't seem to get mine to link the files properly.

[VREK]

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