Where Are Banished Save Files Located?
Where the Banished city builder keeps save.sav town files plus profile data in Documents on PC.
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Banished saves at %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Banished: save.sav town files plus profile data in one small tree. No AppData, no Steam IDs, no cloud involvement.
The 2014 vintage shows in the best way: everything sits in plain sight under Documents. Copy the folder with the game closed and whole towns move, mods apart. The absence of cloud sync makes the manual copy the entire backup strategy. Charters share the folder. Profiles track separately. Scenarios share it too. Disasters respect it.
Where Banished stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Banished
Town .sav files plus profile and settings here. Paste the path into Explorer. Mods in the win_data folder travel separately from saves, so copy both for modded towns.
Frequently asked questions
how do i back up banished saves
Copy %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Banished to the same path on the new PC with the game closed. Towns, profiles, and settings travel together in one small tree. GOG and Steam builds share it, since the folder belongs to the game.
what files make up a banished town
In save/ as save.sav files with numeric suffixes per town, plus profile data beside them. Each town is one file, so single town transfers work by copying one sav. The profile tracks achievements separately from towns.
does banished use steam cloud
No. Banished predates cloud saves on both storefronts, so the Documents folder is the only copy. That makes manual backups mandatory rather than optional. Copy the tree before every major town milestone.
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