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Help please, saved game deleted.

  • 27-06-2025 07:15PM
    #1
    Notmything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks, looking for some help.

    Child A accidentally deleted a saved game file for Stellaris belonging to child b.

    Child b has autism and is struggling to process this as he had about 100+ hours put into it.

    Apparently it was a mode where you could only have a single save which you saved over as you played.

    I'm assuming the game is gone gone and I'm just going to have to help him get through this or is there anyway to recover it?



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  • #2
    Kurooi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kurooi


    I believe they are gone IF your playstation already synced back to the cloud.Which syncs often.

    You can try below but tbh if it powered off it likely already overwrote what it had in the cloud.

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  • #3
    Notmything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭Notmything


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123585205#Comment_123585205

    Thanks, I'll try that when I get home.



  • #4
    Notmything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Just checked. He doesn't have cloud save so looks like he's out of luck sadly



  • #5
    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,147 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    That's rough.

    You can back up saves to external USB drives with PS.

    So, maybe do that occasionally, to reduce the fear from losing data again. Plus your kid might enjoy the fact that his data is owned by him and safe.



  • #6
    Kurooi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kurooi


    Unfortunate. Honestly losing progress like that would be upsetting to most people. It's something he voluntarily put a lot of time into.

    I'd advise that playing games like stellaris is actually awesome, they develop intelligence, problem solving.

    You could help him "roleplay" a new start. Stellaris is all about starting a faction in a vast space and leading it through expansion, war, progress. He can remake the same faction, and in that pretend that their home world was destroyed and they need to start again. A brand new start with new challenges and goals.



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  • #7
    Notmything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭Notmything


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123588619#Comment_123588619

    Thanks for the idea. He's going to give it a try.



  • #8
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,536 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Just to say, it'd be a single save per profile.

    If they've both got their own accounts then each account and it's saves would be separate. Could passcode lock each so no one accidental goes into the other and starts playing.

    You don't need to buy anything again if the console is set to the home console for the account that bought anything or if it's disc games.



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