Creating Save Backups
In this page, we will explain all of the ways you can use Astroneer Launcher to create backups of your game saves.
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In this page, we will explain all of the ways you can use Astroneer Launcher to create backups of your game saves.
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Astroneer was built in response to the lead developer playing Astroneer with a friend and losing months worth of progress due to a power outage, leading to save corruption. It was only then that it was discovered that Astroneer by default does not back up save games and the Steam cloud does not keep any file retention.
Because of this, the primary objective of Astroneer Launcher is to allow for an easier way of keeping save backups, never having to worry again about losing save data to a power outage.
Manual backups can be taken at any time with just a single button press. We recommend that you close Astroneer before taking a manual back up (just in case!) however we have tested that backups can be taken even when you're playing in a save.
Good to know: The menu item's text will change to "Backing up saves" and a loading animation will appear in the bottom right corner of the application while a backup is being taken.
Automatic Backups are a powerful feature that allows the Astroneer Launcher to take a backup of your saves every time the game is launched
Important: Automatic backups can only be taken if you are launching Astroneer through the Astroneer Launcher with the "Play Game" button.
Automatic Backups can be enabled during the setup process. If you're not sure if you opted in to having backups taken automatically, you can check by following the instructions below:
