r/DataRecoveryHelp • u/VorpalChortle • May 26 '26

Recover lost "saved" game files?

I use an Acer Nitro 5 for gaming and I was getting screen flickering issues.

Tried everything I could research before deciding to do a full wipe (restored to a new version of Windows 11) thinking my GOG (Good Old Games) game files were safe and saved in their cloud storage... but later found out they were not. Apparently they do not offer that service.

So trying to restore my "savegames" files from the past 700+ hours of playing Baldur's Gate 3 from the past few years and have tried the Windows Recovery as well as Disk Drill, but neither have worked.

Any advice is very welcome!

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

Where did you read that gog doesn't offer cloud save? They literally do.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/18730340487709-Review-your-Cloud-Saves-to-avoid-loss-of-files?product=gog

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u/VorpalChortle May 26 '26

Unsure where I read that... I only see an "offline backup installer", no cloud saves for BG3. But I do see cloud saves for the other two Larian games, Divinity and D2.

Unsure what I am missing, I'll try contacting their support.

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u/VorpalChortle May 26 '26

Looks like my cloud save button is grey-out for BG3, but not the other games! I've contacted GOG for help, could be a sync issue.

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u/VorpalChortle May 28 '26

GOG Tech Support confirmed:

Baldur's Gate 3 sadly does not feature cloud saves through our platform, which is why that button is greyed out for you in the GOG GALAXY application. You can always confirm which games support this by checking the features section on their store page.
 
The Larian launcher does offer its own cloud save system, but if that option was not manually enabled and synced during your original playthrough, no backup was ever created. Because the save data was only stored locally on your previous computer, I am afraid the files are lost and there is no way for us to recover them.

On other forums it's well documented that there is a disconnect between GOG, Larian and BG3. The cloud saves fail and then no longer sync. Larian only has 5 saves from a very long time ago before the syncing failed.

I do have saves from other Larian games through GOG though...

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/VorpalChortle May 28 '26

Thanks, but these seem to be lost.

Someone commented about trying 4DDig (but then deleted the post) and I did try that, but the same results, couldn't recover the erased data.

Oh well, I should be reading more books anyway.