Graveyard Keeper 2 Save Files: Cloud Saves, Demo Transfer, Backups

Save-file questions spike in launch week for a reason: this is the game people carried a demo save into, and the one a day-one hotfix patched around existing saves. Here is the save system as verified — every claim sourced, with the one open gap (the on-disk path) labeled honestly instead of guessed.

What is confirmed about saves?

Steam Cloud is on. The Steam listing confirms Steam Cloud support alongside achievements — your save rides with your Steam account, not your hard drive alone.

Demo saves transfer automatically. The official support article on demo saves states it plainly: “save files from the demo should transfer automatically” — the article exists for the cases where they do not. Launch-week players corroborate it, including one who continued a demo save and went hunting for the missing pre-order sauna on it. That hunt and its answer — the sauna sits across the progress-gated bridge — are covered in price and pre-order bonuses.

Saves survived the day-one patch. The launch-day hotfix specifically fixed pre-order content “in existing save files” — meaning the update path preserves saves, which is the behavior you want from a live game. The patch tracker follows every update.

No cross-save, on any pairing. Nothing has been announced and nothing is listed. Platform choice is a save commitment — the platforms guide has the full breakdown.

Where do saves live on disk?

Being verified. The honest state of play: the game is two days old, the on-disk save location is not in any official document we can cite, and we do not publish file paths we have not confirmed on a real install. When the verified path lands — Windows first, Proton/Deck second — it goes here with a date and exact steps.

What you can rely on today: Steam Cloud. It is the backup, verified on the store listing.

What about the demo save I already used?

If you transferred a demo save and something looks off — the known-issues tracker lists the launch-week reports (body deliveries, quest counters) that touch save-adjacent behavior. For anything save-breaking, the developers’ designated channels are the bug-report forum and the official support portal linked from their FAQ thread.