Planned Release Date: Nov 18, 2026

About This Software

Never lose a game save again.

SaveVault finds the saves on your machine, backs them up on a schedule, protects them while you play, and restores them anywhere — across Windows, Linux, SteamOS, and macOS, on a desktop PC or a Steam Deck. Your saves stay in portable archives you control, on your own disk and your own cloud storage. SaveVault runs no servers and never holds your data.

Finds your games for you

• Scans your whole system against a community database of thousands of games and locates saves across Steam, GOG, Epic, EA App, Blizzard, the Microsoft Store, Heroic, Lutris, and Legendary — including saves inside Proton and Wine prefixes.

• Windows registry keys and Proton hives are backed up with the files and restored with them.

• Anything it misses, add yourself: custom save paths, config paths, and registry keys, shareable as a small text file.

Live Protection

• Rolling snapshots capture a save the moment the game writes it.

• Make a checkpoint on demand with a global hotkey, or L3+R3 on a controller — so it works in Game Mode without a keyboard.

• Roll back a corrupted file, a bad trade, or a broken mod install in seconds, without leaving the game.

Backups that take care of themselves

• Pick an interval and forget it. Change detection skips untouched games; retention prunes the oldest backups; pinning keeps the ones you want forever.

• Scheduled passes run even when the app is closed.

• Every backup carries BLAKE3 checksums, verified on creation and on restore.

• Preview exactly what a backup will collect and exclude the noise, per game or per file.

Restore anywhere, undo anything

• Every archive is self-describing and resolves paths against the machine it lands on, so a save from one PC restores cleanly to another — even across operating systems.

• Dry-run any restore first, restore a single save slot, or remap paths when a library moves.

• Each restore archives what it is about to overwrite, so a bad restore is one click from undone.

• A warning tells you when a launcher's own cloud sync might overwrite the files you just restored.

Cloud backup with your storage

• Mirror your backup folder to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, FTP, SFTP, or SMB using your own account.

• Share one folder between a PC, a Steam Deck, and a Steam Frame: every backup is tagged with its device, retention is kept per device, and SaveVault warns before a restore would drop another device's progress.

Built for Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame

• A gamepad-first, touch-friendly interface sized for the Deck's screen, with the on-screen keyboard and suspend/resume handled.

• Runs natively on x86-64 and arm64, so the Steam Frame gets a native build.

• A launch wrapper restores before a game starts and backs up after it exits, with the checkpoint chord armed while you play.

Steam edition extras

• Steam achievements.

• Steam Workshop sharing for themes and translations: publish your own, subscribe to others'.

Yours to keep

• Open archive formats (zip, tar.gz, or tar.zst), each with a README so you can restore by hand without SaveVault.

• Seven languages, four built-in themes plus a theme builder, system tray and desktop notifications.

• A full command-line interface that shares everything with the desktop app, including one-paste diagnostics.

• Open source under the GPL-3.0.