Where is my NMS game save file stored?

Hi, and thanks for reaching out. My name is Miguel O., Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue!

save files are stored under C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Packages\HelloGames.NoMansSky\SystemAppData\wgs\[random number]

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Game saves are stored separately from game install files. So if you delete just the game, you'll be able to pick up where you left off with your save.

Where exactly can I find the save files? I can see the game itself under storage but no individual save files. The game is saving my options, so I'm assuming there's a save file somewhere.

The external storage is actually saving files for the game installation itself, not the actual "saves". Game saves are stored on the cloud so players can login from any xbox and pick up where they left off.

"For example, Rise of the Tomb Raider, which isn't a Game Pass PC title, but can be bought from the Xbox PC store, stores its save file in an isolated UWP registry which can't be accessed."

I know it must be making a local save somewhere, because I can save and reload while offline, but yeah, I was worried it might be something like this, with the save data just being stored in some obfuscated way instead of just a regular old save file.

Nevertheless, I still would have thought it to be accessible somehow, but in the registry? Wow, absolutely bananas. I didn't know that was a thing.

The reason I'm even asking any of this at all is because the game updated yesterday (Sept 6) and somehow annihilated all my save progress. Rather than play through all the missions again to get where I was, I wanted to use a save file with all the missions unlocked so I could carry on where I left off. But of course, that requires me to know where the save data should go. I'll keep poking at this, but thanks for letting me know that some games store their save info in the registry, which, if that's the case for Tropico 6, I think scuttles my efforts to use this other save file.