Back Up and Sync Your Game Saves Across Devices With Ludusavi and SaveSync
Use Ludusavi with SaveSync to back up your game saves and access them across all your devices. Never lose progress again.
You play on your desktop at home, your laptop when traveling, and maybe a Steam Deck on the couch. Your game saves should follow you across all of them without thinking about it.
Ludusavi finds and backs up your saves automatically. SaveSync makes those saves available on all your devices. Together, they keep your progress safe and accessible no matter where you play.
What Is Ludusavi?
Ludusavi is a free, open-source game save backup tool. It uses the PCGamingWiki save database to automatically find where your games store their saves. Instead of hunting through AppData folders and Proton prefixes, Ludusavi handles the detection for you.
Key features:
- Backs up saves for thousands of games automatically
- Works on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Supports Steam, GOG, Epic, and other launchers
- Restore saves from backup with one click
- CLI and GUI options available
If you play across multiple devices and care about your progress, Ludusavi should be part of your setup.
The Problem: Your Saves Are Stuck on One Machine
Most game saves live in a folder on whatever machine you played on last. Steam Cloud covers some games, but it is unreliable, does not support every game, and sometimes creates conflicts that overwrite your latest progress with an older save.
If you switch between a desktop and a laptop, or between a PC and a Steam Deck, you have probably dealt with:
- Missing saves on your second device because the game does not support cloud sync
- Steam Cloud conflicts that roll back hours of progress
- Manually copying save files between machines and hoping you grabbed the right ones
- Not knowing where the game stores its saves because every game uses a different location
It should not be this complicated to continue playing where you left off.
How SaveSync Solves Cross-Device Save Access
SaveSync keeps your game saves synchronized across all your devices. Play on your desktop tonight, pick up on your laptop tomorrow, continue on your Steam Deck over the weekend. Your progress follows you.
Here is the workflow:
- Finish a session on any device
- Sync the save through SaveSync
- Open SaveSync on your other device and pull the latest save
- Launch the game and continue exactly where you left off
No manual file copying. No guessing which save is the latest. No Steam Cloud conflicts. SaveSync knows where each game stores its saves on Windows and Linux, so the files always land in the right place.
Ludusavi + SaveSync: The Complete Setup
Ludusavi and SaveSync handle different parts of the same problem:
| Ludusavi | SaveSync | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Back up saves | Access saves across devices |
| Protects against | Corruption, loss, bad updates | Saves stuck on one machine |
| Works with | Thousands of games | 27+ supported games |
| Platform | Windows, Linux, macOS | Windows, Linux (Steam Deck beta) |
The ideal setup:
- Ludusavi backs up your saves regularly so you always have a safety net if something goes wrong
- SaveSync keeps your saves available across all your devices so you can play wherever you want
- If a save gets corrupted, restore from Ludusavi’s backup and re-sync through SaveSync
Your saves are both protected from loss and available everywhere.
Setting Up Ludusavi for Backups
- Download Ludusavi from the GitHub releases page
- Run a scan to detect all your installed games and save locations
- Back up your saves to a local folder, external drive, or cloud storage
- Schedule regular backups so you never fall behind
Ludusavi supports custom backup paths, compression, and retention policies. Set it once and forget it.
Setting Up SaveSync for Cross-Device Access
- Install SaveSync from Steam on each device you play on
- Create a sync group (even a solo group works for personal cross-device sync)
- Select your games and sync after each session
- Pull the latest save on whichever device you want to play on next
Need help? Join our Discord server and the community will get you set up.
Play Anywhere, Keep Everything
Your gaming setup should not limit where you can play. Ludusavi keeps your saves safe. SaveSync keeps them accessible. Between the two, your progress is always protected and always available, no matter which device you sit down at.
Back up with Ludusavi. Sync with SaveSync. Join our Discord if you need help getting set up.