No Man’s Sky lost all of my game saves.

Walker Bait · Jul 3, 2023

I have been playing No Man’s Sky for years. I have a game saved with over 400 hours. Now I cannot load it. Every time I try to load it, No Man’s Sky starts a new game.

I started having problems while I was editing my freighter. I had a save point and I tried to restore from it. But after every restore, I appeared at the same place where the last auto save was. So I kept trying to load the save point with no luck. I also noticed that the date on the auto save was never changing. It always has the same date and time. So I restarted the game. After I did, each game save would load as if I was starting a new game. Now I cannot play at all because each time I load a game, it starts a new one.

Does anyone know what the solution is?

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Onyx Is Here

Hello Walker, sorry to hear you've been having save issues with your game.

I'm glad clearing the local save files fixed the problem for you, it would be a shame to lose all that time. Thank you for posting your steps on resolving the problem, I'll definitely remember it if the problem pops up again.

Walker Bait

I resolved this. I was able to delete the local files and restore from the cloud. Phew! I actually have 900 hours in this game on my Xbox and I still have not yet reached the center of the galaxy. To busy exploring and finding new things to explore and do. Here are some solutions that I found:

A. Try deleting the local save data for No Man's Sky and then syncing it with the cloud. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Press the Xbox button to open the guide.

2. Select My games & apps > See all > Games.

3. Highlight No Man's Sky and press the Menu button on your controller.

4. Select Manage game and add-ons > Saved data.

5. Select Delete all to remove the local save data for No Man's Sky.

6. Once the local save data has been deleted, restart your Xbox console.

7. When your Xbox console has restarted, open No Man's Sky and allow it to sync with the cloud.

8. Once the sync has completed, try loading your game save.

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B. Try joining someone else's game. If you are able to join someone else's game, your save file may be able to load correctly. Once you have joined someone else's game, try saving your game and then quitting the game. After you have quit the game, try loading your save file again.

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C. Use a save editor. There are a number of save editors available for No Man's Sky. These editors may be able to fix your corrupted save file. To use a save editor, you will need to copy your save file to your computer. Once you have copied your save file, you can open it with the save editor and try to fix the corruption.

You can get a save editor for No Man's Sky on the Xbox from the GitHub repository of goatfungus. The repository is here: https://github.com/goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor

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D. Contact Hello Games support. If you have tried all of the above solutions and you are still unable to load your game save, you can contact Hello Games support for help. You can contact Hello Games support through their website: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us.

Kinetic Profit

On the account where the corruption occurred, navigate to C:\Users\NAME\Saved Games\GAME where NAME is your username and
GAME will be something like No Man's Sky in this case. Rename the No Man's Sky folder to something like No Man's Sky - Bad. Launch the game and see if it acts differently.

It seems No Man's Sky doesn't create a save there. I did find local save data elsewhere and deleted it, but the corrupted profile still doesn't work.

ericjwilborn

On the account where the corruption occurred, navigate to C:\Users\NAME\Saved Games\GAME where NAME is your username and
GAME will be something like No Man's Sky in this case. Rename the No Man's Sky folder to something like No Man's Sky - Bad. Launch the game and see if it acts differently.

TattBear

I absolutely love this style of game. No Mans Sky and Astoneer are awesome games and I find myself lost for hours!

No Man’s Sky lost all of my game saves.