Where Are Ara: History Untold Save Files Located?
Where Ara History Untold keeps Saves in Documents, how the Steam ID folders work, and where crash logs hide.
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Ara: History Untold keeps its live saves in Documents, inside a My Games folder with a Saves subfolder. That is the path to back up and the one to restore into. Steam adds a second copy per user ID inside the game install folder for cloud sync.
The cloud copy causes the known headache: old saves can fill the quota while hidden from the in-game menu, blocking new saves. Clearing the per-ID Saves folder by hand fixes it. Crash diagnostics live elsewhere entirely, in an Ara History Untold logs folder under LocalAppData.
Where Ara: History Untold stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Ara History Untold\Saves
Live saves for backup and restore. A parallel copy per Steam user ID sits in the install folder for app 2021880 and feeds cloud sync. Logs for troubleshooting sit under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ara History Untold\logs. Work with the game closed.
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2021880/pfx
Proton prefix for app 2021880; inside pfx continue to the Windows-style Documents path. Cloud quota quirks apply here just as on Windows. Keep manual backups outside the prefix so a prefix wipe cannot take them.
Frequently asked questions
how do I back up Ara History Untold saves
Copy the Saves folder under Documents My Games to external storage with the game closed. Cloud saves can also fill the Steam quota with old versions the game hides, so prune in-game first. Manual copies restore cleanly into the same folder on a fresh install.
how do I delete old cloud saves
Open the Steam install folder for app 2021880 and look for the folder named with your Steam user ID, then delete its Saves subfolder. The in-game menu cannot remove old cloud versions once they stop listing. This is the manual fix the developers suggest for a full cloud quota.
saves exist on disk but not in game
Check Documents My Games first, since that is the live save location. The Steam library folder holds per-ID copies tied to cloud sync. Saves visible on disk but missing in-game usually mean cloud saving got toggled or the version changed underneath them.
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