ReStory Save File Location — Windows Path & Restore Guide

On Windows, ReStory keeps its saves here:

%UserProfile%\AppData\LocalLow\Mandragora\Restory\SaveData

Paste that straight into the Explorer address bar — %UserProfile% expands on its own, so you do not need to substitute your username. The game keeps five rotating saves, and the highest-numbered one is the most recent.

Finding the folder

AppData is hidden by default in Windows. If you are navigating manually rather than pasting the path, enable hidden items in Explorer's View options first, otherwise the folder will appear not to exist.

Pasting the full path avoids that entirely, which is why it is the recommended route.

How the rotation works

Rather than a single save file, the game maintains a set of five, numbered, with the highest number being newest. Older states are pushed out as new ones are written.

That rotation is what makes recovery possible at all — a single bad save does not immediately destroy your earlier states. But it also means the window is finite. If something has gone wrong, stop playing, because continuing rotates the save you actually want out of existence.

Restoring an earlier save

The publisher's own support article documents one specific recovery flow: pulling back a previous playthrough after you have already started a New Game. It does not separately cover reverting to an older save within your current playthrough's five-slot rotation — that is a different, undocumented scenario, covered below.

Recovering a previous playthrough

Starting a New Game does not delete your old save — it moves the entire previous playthrough into a BackupSaveData folder inside the same Restory directory, in a numbered subfolder. To pull it back:

1. Close the game completely.
2. Temporarily turn off Steam Cloud saves for ReStory. The official instructions call for this before touching any files.
3. Open Restory\BackupSaveData and find the latest numbered folder.
4. Copy its .restory save file into Restory\SaveData, replacing the existing file if prompted.
5. Launch the game and confirm your progress is back.

Reverting to an older save in your current playthrough

There is no official procedure for this. The safe precaution:

1. Close the game completely. Editing files under a running game is how you end up with two conflicting states.
2. Copy the entire SaveData folder somewhere else first, before the rotation overwrites the state you want to keep.

Once a slot rotates out, the material gathered for this page has no confirmed way to bring it back — treat the five-slot rotation as a safety net, not something you can selectively rewind.

Other platforms

The publisher's own support article gives the base Restory save folder for every platform the game ships on:

• Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\LocalLow\Mandragora\Restory
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Mandragora/Restory
• Steam Deck / Linux: ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/3812600/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/Mandragora/Restory

Unconfirmed: The article doesn't spell out SaveData/BackupSaveData as subfolder names on macOS and Steam Deck the way the Windows path above already does — only the base folder is confirmed cross-platform.

A known cross-device sync bug

If you play on more than one device — PC and Steam Deck, for example — the publisher's own Known Issues page lists, as of its last check and still unresolved: "Cloud saves are syncing graphics settings and resolutions across different devices."

In practice, that means switching devices can silently change your display settings along with your save. If your resolution or graphics options look wrong after opening the game on a different device, this is the likely cause rather than a corrupted save.

Demo saves do not carry over

Progress from the demo does not transfer into the full game. This was addressed directly in the Steam discussions, with the explanation being that the full release changed substantially enough that carrying demo saves forward was not supported.

If you played the demo, plan on starting fresh. See the demo page for the current status of the demo itself.

Backing up before a branching decision

Because the endings are shaped by decisions spread across the run, keeping a manual copy of the SaveData folder at a visible fork is the low-risk way to see more than one outcome without a full replay.

This matters for completion too — some achievements are missable and a few require separate playthroughs. A folder copy is simpler and safer than editing anything. See the achievements guide.

Before you edit anything

Editing saves directly is possible, but treat it as a one-way door:

• Back up the entire folder first, not just the file you intend to change.
• Expect edits to break with patches, since the format can change between versions.
• Assume any achievement earned on an edited save is suspect.

If your goal is simply to try a different branch, keeping a manual copy of the folder at the decision point achieves the same thing without the risk.

If your save appears corrupted

Stop playing immediately so the rotation does not overwrite your remaining good states. Copy the whole folder somewhere safe before attempting anything.

If the corruption showed up right after starting a New Game, the previous playthrough in BackupSaveData (see above) is your official recovery path. If it happened within your current playthrough's rotation, there is no officially documented recovery beyond the copy you just made.

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Unconfirmed: The internal save file format (a community reverse-engineering exists but is untested against the current build and hardcodes an outdated version marker), the day-to-day behavior of Steam Cloud sync for this title beyond "turn it off before restoring," the exact trigger and retention limit for the five-slot rotation, the SaveData/BackupSaveData subfolder names on macOS and Steam Deck, and whether editing a save affects achievement legitimacy, are all unconfirmed in the material gathered and are deliberately not guessed at here.