Where Are Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Saves Located?
Where Banishers keeps its saves on PC, and why patches moved them into Steam and EOS subfolders.
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Banishers saves at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Banishers Ghosts of New Eden\Saved\SaveGames, but the real location is one level deeper: a Steam/<user-id> or EOS subfolder, depending on build and patch. Older installs wrote directly to the root.
That move stranded saves in the old spot after updating, which is the famous vanished progress report. The fix is a folder copy, not a replay: move the .sav files into the subfolder the current build reads. Check both levels before assuming anything is lost.
Where Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden stores this, by platform
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Banishers Ghosts of New Eden\Saved\SaveGames
.sav files per subfolder; Steam/<id> for Steam builds, EOS/<id> for cross play. Paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\Banishers Ghosts of New Eden into Explorer. Config INIs sit beside saves under Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor.
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1493640/pfx/.../Banishers Ghosts of New Eden/Saved/SaveGames
Same nested tree inside the Proton prefix for app 1493640. Copy the Windows SaveGames contents with subfolders intact. Offline versus online reads different levels, so keep root and subfolder in sync.
Frequently asked questions
how do i back up banishers saves
Copy %LOCALAPPDATA%\Banishers Ghosts of New Eden\Saved\SaveGames to the same path with the game closed, including the Steam/<id> or EOS subfolder your install uses. The .sav files must keep their subfolder or the game starts fresh. Steam Cloud may mirror them too.
why did my banishers saves vanish after an update
A patch relocated saves from SaveGames root into Steam/<user-id> (and EOS/ for Epic cross play) without moving existing files. Copy the old .sav files into the new subfolder with the game closed and progress reappears. Keep a copy of both spots until confirmed.
does banishers use steam cloud
Yes, and that split causes the classic offline bug: offline launches read the root folder while online reads the Steam subfolder. Copy saves between the two when switching connectivity. Disable cloud only if you commit to manual copies.
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