Where Are Horizon Zero Dawn Saves Located?
Horizon Zero Dawn save folder on PC, which unusually lives in Documents, plus the OneDrive redirect that confuses many players.
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Horizon Zero Dawn skips AppData entirely and saves straight into your Documents folder. Each slot is its own subfolder with a checkpoint.dat inside.
The common gotcha is OneDrive. If folder backup has moved Documents into OneDrive, the saves move with it, and the plain Documents path looks empty.
Where Horizon Zero Dawn stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Horizon Zero Dawn\Saved Game
Paste into the File Explorer address bar. If the folder is missing, check the OneDrive variant of Documents instead. Each slot subfolder holds one checkpoint.dat file.
Frequently asked questions
My Horizon Zero Dawn folder is not in Documents. Where is it?
If Documents is redirected to OneDrive, the live path is %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents\Horizon Zero Dawn\Saved Game. The game follows the redirected Documents folder, so always check there first when the default looks empty.
How do I back up Horizon Zero Dawn saves?
Copy the whole Saved Game folder. Each save slot is a subfolder (autosave0, manualsave0, quicksave0) containing a checkpoint.dat file.
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