Game Save Manager is a software tool designed to secure and manage game saves from various platforms such as Steam, Epic, and custom locations. It offers a comprehensive solution for gamers to easily backup and restore their progress, ensuring their gaming data remains safe.
Key Features:
Centralized Management: Leverages the PCGamingWiki database to automatically detect and organize save files into an intuitive table, supporting over 14,000 game locations.
Smart Detection Engine: Utilizes a dual-scan system (Install Path Scan and Deep Database Scan) to identify games installed via major platforms or those uninstalled but leaving saves behind.
Time Travel & Versioning: Maintains a rolling history of backups with an Auto-Rotation feature to manage disk space, allowing users to mark specific saves as permanent.
Cross-Device Migration: Enables export of save histories into .gsmr archives, facilitating seamless import and merging on new devices.
Account Awareness: Detects User IDs for platforms like Steam and Epic, enabling backups for individual or global accounts.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for gamers seeking to protect their saves from data loss, modders working with niche titles, and those migrating between devices. The tool provides peace of mind through easy backup/restore processes, robust protection against data loss, and seamless cross-device compatibility.
Installation is straightforward via winget, making it accessible for users looking to secure their gaming progress effortlessly.
Stop trusting the cloud blindly. Game Save Manager (GSM) secures your game saves from platforms like Steam, Epic, and custom locations all in one place. Auto-detect installed games, maintain a versioned history, and restore your progress with a single click.
Core Features
Centralized Management (Powered by PCGamingWiki)
Stop digging through AppData folders. GSM automatically finds and organizes your save files into one clean, interactive table. Leveraging the world's largest crowd-sourced game database, it supports over 14,000 game save locations.
Smart Detection Engine
GSM doesn't just look at one folder. It uses a dual-scan system:
Install Path Scan: Automatically detects games installed via Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and more by scanning your library folders.
Deep Database Scan: Even uninstalled games leave saves behind. GSM checks thousands of known save paths (Registry, AppData, Documents) to recover forgotten history.
Time Travel & Versioning
Messed up a dialogue choice? Corrupted a save file? GSM keeps a rolling history of backups for every game. Set an Auto-Rotation limit to automatically clean up old files and save disk space, or mark specific backups (like "Before Final Boss") as Permanent Pinned Saves so they are never deleted.
Cross-Device Migration
Moving to a new PC? GSM lets you export your entire save history into a single archive. Import it on your new machine, and GSM will smartly merge the backups, combining existing history with the imported files effortlessly.
GSM intelligently detects User IDs for platforms like Steam, Ubisoft, Epic, Xbox, and Rockstar. This allows you to back up specific accounts individually or create global backups encompassing all accounts on the system.
Support the Unsupported
Playing a niche indie game or a heavily modded title? Use the Custom Games tab to manually add any folder, file, or registry key to the backup system. Utilize Smart Placeholders (like %AppData% or your %UserProfile%) to ensure your custom backups work seamlessly on any PC.
Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
Launch GSM and secure your progress!
Advanced Usage & Options
While GSM is designed to be plug-and-play, you have full control over your backup strategy via the app's interface:
Batch Operations: Select multiple detected games from the Backup or Restore tabs to process them all with a single click.
Smart Restores: When restoring, GSM automatically selects the most recent backup. If it detects that your current local files are newer than the backup, it will safely prompt you for confirmation before overwriting.
Backup Limits: Configure the maximum number of rolling backups per game in your settings to keep your storage usage in check.
Export Destination: Easily choose where your exported .gsmr files are saved for quick external drive transfers.
Support
For issues, feature requests, or contributions, please visit the Issues page or join our community via Discord/QQ (links at the top of the page).