Where Are Beyond These Stars Save Files Located?
Beyond These Stars keeps colonies in a Balancing Monkey Games folder in LocalLow, one save file per world.
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Beyond These Stars writes saves to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Balancing Monkey Games\Beyond These Stars\Saves, the same LocalLow spot its predecessor Before We Leave used. Each colony is a file in the Saves folder, and the folder appears only after your first save.
The game autosaves, and Steam Cloud mirrors the folder, so routine play takes care of itself. The reason to know the path is experiments: if you plan to test a layout by demolishing half a city, copy the save file out first. A dated copy you can fall back to beats a single slot you keep meaning to back up.
Where Beyond These Stars stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Balancing Monkey Games\Beyond These Stars\Saves
One file per colony save, with Player.log one level up. LocalLow, not Documents, so paste the path rather than browsing for it; AppData hides by default.
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2295060/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/Balancing Monkey Games/Beyond These Stars/Saves
Steam Deck and Linux installs run through Proton, app ID 2295060. The tree inside the prefix matches Windows.
Frequently asked questions
Where are Beyond These Stars saves stored?
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Balancing Monkey Games\Beyond These Stars\Saves. The game is Unity-based, so it uses LocalLow rather than Documents, which many strategy games still do.
Can I move a colony to another PC?
Copy the save file from the Saves folder on the old machine into the same folder on the new one, with the game closed. Steam Cloud handles this automatically when sync is on for both machines.
The Saves folder does not exist yet. Why?
It is created by the first save of a new game. If you have played and still see nothing, confirm you are in the correct Windows user profile; other accounts have their own LocalLow tree.
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