Where Are The Long Dark Save Files Located?
The Long Dark files survival progress in a Hinterland folder under AppData LocalLow, Unity's default corner for game data.
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The Long Dark is a Unity game, so saves land in LocalLow rather than the usual Roaming folder. There is no manual save button. The game writes when you sleep, pass time, enter most buildings, or suffer a serious injury.
That design makes the folder worth knowing. Copy the whole Hinterland directory aside as a manual checkpoint before a risky expedition. Restoring it later rewinds the run, at the cost of any leaderboard standing tied to the original timeline.
Where The Long Dark stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Hinterland\The Long Dark
LocalLow stays hidden by default. Survival runs sit in the survival subfolder with profile files beside them; back up the entire folder, not single files.
Frequently asked questions
Can I keep multiple Survival saves?
The game tracks one run at a time per profile. To branch, copy the folder elsewhere with a label like day-50, then swap copies back whenever you want that timeline again.
Does uninstalling delete my run?
Uninstalling through Steam leaves AppData alone, so the run usually survives. Copy the Hinterland folder first anyway, since cleanup tools and fresh Windows installs do not.
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